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School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)

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Timoleague, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shithigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 071

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 071

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    “Mrs Donoghue's grandmother was dead.”

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    Mrs. O'Donoghue's grandmother was dead. She had 4 sons away. The people at home had made a new house and had made a barn of the old house.
    Part of the "caoin" was:-
    "Nuair a tháinigh tú go dtí an lios,
    Ní fheaca deatach i dtigh,
    Ná ní fheaca na fir amuigh.
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  2. Caoin Eile from Mrs Donoghue

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    Irish