School: Clochar na Trócaire, Drangan (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Gráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 316
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- A little tribute of affection to the memory of an old friend, the late John F Meagher, of Carrick on Suir.
I
He's dead, another soldier, weep him
not with tears and sighs
Wrap his mother's flag around him-
in life it was his prize;
In darksome days he wore it as the
fetters jingled near,
In filthy dungeons wore it, be it is
guerdon here.
II
He'd dead, another soldier, like many
gone before,
Who fought his country's battle when angry tempests tore,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Magowry, Co. Tipperary
