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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Drangan (roll number 7232)

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Drangan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Gráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 340

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  3. XML “An Old Man's Soliliquy - by A Drangan Boy”
  4. XML “Slievenamon - by A Drangan Boy”

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  1. An Old Man's Soliliquy - by A Drangan Boy (continued)

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  2. Slievenamon - by A Drangan Boy

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    Old Kill! beneath whose sombre shade
    I've spent my youthful years,
    Upon your sides I often gaze
    Oppressed with hopes and fears;
    With hopes you may at no far day
    Fair freedom's mantle don-
    And fears that I should from you fly
    Oh love'd old Slievenamon!
    II
    Many pleasant rambles
    Beneath your towering brow
    I had with school companions
    Who far are from you now;
    In the stormy deep some of them sleep,
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