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School: Carrickerry (B.) (roll number 11280)

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Carrigkerry, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Seán Ó Conaill
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  1. A Christmas Message to the President - Inscribed to Mr Seán Hartney M.C.C.

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    The following was composed at Christmas 1936 by my uncle P. J. Ahern Glensharrold Ardagh, Co. Limerick who died in October 1937 aged 66 years.

    A Christmas Message to the President

    God Prosper De Valera may he never come to grief
    Sure his worth cannot be measured by free gifts of milk or beef
    Inspired to wrest his country from the stranger's stranglehold
    He's the Moses of his people, like that Patriarch of old

    Oh, Ireland, over fertile, potential wealth contains
    With her picturesque green valleys and her undulating plains
    Whose produce was intended by the God of love and grace
    To maintain in decent comfort the native Irish race

    Too long it had been plundered by a horde of foreign knaves
    Too long its suffering people were branded abject slaves
    Till Pearse of Heroic action availed by one great chance
    To rouse the slumbering nation from her long and weary trance

    Ah, some who should be helping to keep the foe at bay
    Through sordid love of lucre, are blindly led astray
    " The land to feed the bullock " to them seems second heaven
    Even though the poor may perish as in tragic 47
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Séamus Ahern
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Address
    Glensharrold, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    P.J. Ahern
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Glensharrold, Co. Limerick