School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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- William Manning was born in Riverstown, Ardee, in 1838. He was buried in Ballypousta, Ardee, in 1912. There were, it is said, no poets among his ancestors.
At a coursing meeting at Bradlaugh, Ardee, four dogs - Nancy Connor, Doran's Phearail, Bunty Givil and Tinker - won their first rounds. Nancy was defeated by Bunty Girl who then beat Doran's dog. In the next round she got a bye and met and beat Tinker in the final. As winner of the Stakes she got thirty shillings, and Tinker got 10/-. To commemorate the event Manning made the following poem:-
The first to meet her in the chase
For stakes of fame and honour
Came from the Green, proud as a queen:
They called her Nancy Connor.
Nan, indeed, was famed for speed,
And so was Doran's Phearail
But you might as well ring Daisy Bell
Against the Bunty Girl.
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The Ardee Stakes she always takes,
She tips the beam at twenty,
(Would Phearail possibly be "Ferrule?" It is so pronounced.) P.Ó.C.(continues on next page)
