School: Garryshane (roll number 1886)
- Location:
- Garryshane, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)There is honour in gallant irregulars
Which will prove in your little shebeen.It was lively she filled up their bumpers
Here is a memory to each one they cried
The men who have battled for Eirn
on the green beach of glory they died.Josie Riordan From Timothy Riordan
Gurteendevane Gurteendevane
Donohill Donohill.
- Come all ye jolly roving boys
From Garryshane and Grage
I'll sing for you a verse or two
Indeed you'll find it strange,
concering corkscrew O'Dwyer,
who lately found a wife
He has a farm up in Latten
And leads a cawny fife,
I was at the break of day one morning
The neighbours did'nt know where
some said it was a funeral
and others said a fair
But still they were suspcious
and began to talk it o'er
Till they found that he was married(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Breen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Thomas Dwyer
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
