School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 254
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- John Collins was a native of Ballycumish west of Ballydehob. He was a farmer and the gift of poetry making came to him from his ancestors. He made English songs about local places, local persons, and local happenings. Some of his are still remembered. His best song was "the Wreck of "the lady Charlotte" He was buried in Schull graveyard.
Patrick O'Brein was born in Coomhola north of Bantry. He was one of the best poets ever born in West Cork. His poems and songs are written and are still sung locally. He went to America when he was very young and he worked in the Rockies. He was thus styled Patrick Rocky Mountain O'Brien and so he always called himself in his writings. He was a great Irishman and in all his songs he condemned the English. He wrote poems on many local places and Goleen Bantry(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Josephina Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs E. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork
