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School: Árd-achadh (C.) (roll number 14076)

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Ardagh, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Máire Ní Mhadagáin
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    Nellie Fitzgerald,
    Ballynacally,
    Ardagh,
    Co. Limerick.

    Old Rhymes.
    When I was young and had no sense. I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence, and all the tunes that I would play was button my britches tighter.
    Leaves may wither, roses may die, friends may forget you, but never will I.
    There was a man sitting on a corner of a round table, squeezing the wet out of a dry rag.
    He ran over the dead dog and very nearly killed him.
    As I went into a road in the side of a house, there was a bark and he dogged at me. I took out my tail to cut his knife. The room ran up in the old woman, and there was Jack wide open and the door in bed
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynacally, Co. Limerick