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1. An Old Song - Rockchapel on the Feale (continued)

   

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   To free their native country form the jaws of the British lion
   The land League was their weapon then, with Fr Kennedy and O Brien.
   'Tis there you'll hear the thrushe's song and see the wild flowers grow.
   What a beauty sight in Winters time, the vale in white with snow.
   'Tis there you'll hear real music, an O Grady jig and reel.
   They do not prance, they have Fitz's dance at Rockchapel - on - the Feale.

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   May God be good to Davey Walshe, our dear old native tongue.
   He kept alive, it never died, the truth must now be sung.
   An Irish piper of some fame, he started the first band.
   When his moonlighters from Glencarney paraded about the land.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy Curtin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Milleenduff, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mr Patrick Curtin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   78

   Address

   Milleenduff, Co. Cork