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School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)

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Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 432

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    Long ago about a hundred years ago they was a poet in Glenbreeda. His name was Michael Shaw Glenbreeda Borrisoleigh. He used to make poems and stories and sometimes give the night up writing it. He is buried about fifty years . He is buried in Upperchurch. It id said that his grandfather before was a poet. It is also said that he was bron with a gift. THey are both daed now.
    They were another poet in Grange townsland of Borrisoleigh in Co.Tipperary. He used to make up a poem and compose it in English . He did not know and Irish . His name was Willie Brennan he emigrated to the United States in 1912 and never came back . He got the gift of poetry from his grandmother in Grange. I do not know any verse of the poem he made up
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Clohesy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Jermiah Darcy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    51
    Address
    Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary

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    There was men in our district in days long ago and they were able to make poems . Their names were Tom Fahey and Mick Gleeson they lived in Castlehill. When they died they were eighty years of age . I don't know where they were buried. There
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Ned Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary