School: Mount Collins, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)
- Location:
- Mountcollins, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0493, Page 367
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- (continued from previous page)We'll have long Daitheen and Seán Dinnagheen
From the top of Tureen
Jack Nanó was the first to go
He was the first that got the stitches
He ran from Barrna na h Ab'ann
Shitting in his breeches.----Jim Mc Hugh (mentioned above) was a great swimmer and he made a kind of a boat. He was able to drive it over the water. When the people heard this they advised him to go as a sailor.
(I asked him to change this and he thought and out came "and left it")
The Bardeen
“He'd go to bed early and he'd be making up the song...”
He'd go to bed early and he'd be making up the song and at 12 o clock you’d have to give him a lighted splinter & then he’d sing the song for you. He couldn’t sing without the splinter. He was brother of soldier Regan who was carried into the fort.In that fair town of Drum (Drumcollagher) I commenced some fun
It was in a cold December’s night.
He’d have to get a pipe of tobacco for every song he’d make. (Page 109)
