School: Baile Glas (Meastha), An Bhlárna (roll number 10930)
- Location:
- Ballyglass, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Bhuachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0388, Page 189
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- (continued from previous page)no necks, nor arms bare.
Some wore fine silken stockings but never bobbed their hair.
They didnt bob nor shingle, though they wore fine dresses all.
And they kept their Irish fashions at the farmers Union Ball.
III
What foolish glowing shadows now pierced the welling brain
Of them that donned false colours in the nightmare of Sinn Fein.
They wanted sport and money but no other should have fun
Now to stop our merry making they robbed the postman's gun,
They didnt face the Saxon; they might get wounded sore,
They'd rather buff their neighbour's who were living quite next door.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyglass, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Parkina Cross Roads, Co. Cork
