School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0284, Page 166
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- (continued from previous page)accomplish it, he wrote beauticul verses on the seasons and on various beauty spots throughout Cork County. His grandfather was also a poet and on account of this he found it very easy to compose poems on any subjects he thought of. He emmigrated to America in nineteen hundred. The songs which these poets wrote are not sung now.
- Many poets lived in this district in former times. There still lives in the townland of Glencreagh a man named Mr O'Sullivan, nicknamed "Tadgh Andheos." (?) He is about eighty years of age. He used to compose poetry in former times. His ancestors were not poets, but he got the power suddenly. He composed songs in English about local people.Poets did compete against one another(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromsullivan South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr T. Keohane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Dromsullivan South, Co. Cork
