School: Gurrane (C.) (roll number 14840)

Location:
Clondrohid, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Shéaghdha
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  1. (continued from previous page)
    A mama said she do you know what will cure me
    Will cure the disease that surely will kill
    Give over your doctoring and medical treatment
    I would rather one shake from bold Tadey Quill
    Chorus
    In the year forty nine when Parnell was taken
    Tadey was rageous breaking the peace
    He spent three long years in the jails of Killmainham.
    And six months hard labour for besting police
    In spite of coercion he still agitated.
    And the blood of his veins he is willing to spill.
    To secure for old Éireann the right of a nation
    Until such is obtained there is no peace for Tim Quill.
    (Chorus)
    Tomás Gleeson from Glounaglough composed it
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. The king of the fish is called the Breadán Feáth. Anyone never killed it because it has a shell on its back and if anyone attempted to kill it he could not because the hook would take no effect on the shell and besides he who killed it would not have a day's luck from that day until the day he would die.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Judy Garvin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Scronagare, Co. Cork