School: Presentation Brothers' School, Cóbh

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Cóbh, Co. Cork
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An Bráthair Ó Doghair
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  1. A Historic Note
    There is an old man living out on the Tea road. That man was a Fenian. This piece of verse was made about that man.
    I
    Thirty thousand men on horse-back
    Surrounded a cottage on the hill
    And shouted come out Moscow Milerick or we'll blow your cottage in.
    II
    He was a gallant fighter
    And surrender he would not
    They then tried to capture him
    But a burst of firing was all the got
    Because Moscow had a family and guns they had also got.
    John O'Donovan
    18 Midleton Stree
    Cobh
    Co. Cork
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. people
        1. secret societies (~18)
          1. Fenians (~141)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John O' Donovan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cóbh, Co. Cork