School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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- A dieu my friends in Dublin,
I bid you all adieu,
I can not yet appoint the day that I'll return to you,
I wrote those lines on board a ship where stormy billows roar,
May heaven bless those Fenian boys till I return once more.
II
Let no one blame the turn-key, nor any of his men.
There's no one knows but the two of us, the man who stood my friend.
I robbed no man, I shed no blood, though they sent me on to jail.
Because I was O'Donovan Rossa who was a son of Grannuaile.
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My curse attend those traitors false,
Who did our cause betray,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rosaleen O' Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Ned Jones
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Shanavagh, Co. Cork