School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0284, Page 222
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Song (continued)
“George Biggs he came from nowhere”
(continued from previous page)IIMary Tursey's jar was handy.
As she proved a good friend true.
Whom she tripped oe'r the heather.
With the real old mountain dew. III
Dennie Driscoll blew the whistle
As their holy heads they shook
The Lord be praised I'll 'er remember
Such a day in "Reen Na-Cruck.This story was written by a man named Donnie Hurley who lives in Glengarriff Road. It was written on the fourth of July nineteen twenty eight. On that day a team from Bantry known as the "All-blacks" went into Whiddy to play a football match against the boys of that island.
Song
“Bonfires blazed along the hillsides; There was music on the shore.”
Song. George Biggs he came from nowhere,
And settled in the town(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Tisdall
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bantry, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Coakley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Bantry, Co. Cork