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School: An Druipseach

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Dripsey, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Ó Tuathaigh
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  1. Song - My Inchigeela Lass

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    Written by Seán O'Tuathaig O.S. Dripsey. Cork. Supposed to be composed by an Inchigeela man named Jim Cooney, about a young girl named Mary O'Rielly of same place.
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    I greet you proud Eveleary's sons and daughters fair and true.
    Assembled in this South End Club old friendships to renew.
    Your present hospitality I'm loth to let it pass.
    Ere I recite a tale to night on my Inchigeela Lass.
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    Eveleary! oh, how sweet that name rings on an exiles ears.
    Tho' I have not seen your heath clad hills for five and twenty years.
    'Tis there I met my hearts delight one Sunday morn at Mass.
    As I knelt in prayer in that chapel there with my Inchigeela Lass.
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    She was modest as a cooing dove as gentle as the fawn.
    That roams o'er Desmond's storied heights or the highlands o'er Gougane.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán O Tuathaig
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir