School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)

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1. A Local Song (continued)

   “One Sunday evening lately as, I strolled from new Tipperary...”

   

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   no avail,
   And if you don't pay the fine, we'll take you down the line.
   For a fortnight picking okum, inside Cork County jaol.

   

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2. The Bogra Hills

   

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   I'm sitting watching the coal fires burning, My mind and thoughts they being far from here. For fancy penance is now returning, To where Cork's dear old peaks appear. There is something there in the shelf before me, And! oh! with sadness my heart it fills. What a flood of memory it brings all o'er me, That sod of turf from the "Bogra Hills"

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Joan Dineen

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Nora Cooney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coachford, Co. Cork