School: Island View, Cill an Dísirt (roll number 14196)
- Location:
- Tonlegee, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0605, Page 128
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- In Boadings Town Church yard there lies a green grave,
And freely around here the winter's wind rave,
Far bitter they soothe him thy ruins and thy gloom,
Till Ireland a Nation shall built him a tomb.
II
Once I lay on the sod sure it does her Wolfe Tone,
And though how he perished in prison alone,
For his friends unrevenged and his country not free
Far bitter I said it a patriots need
For in him O' the heart of a country combine
With a heroic life and a governing mind(continues on next page)
