School: Tullistown (roll number 5751)
- Location:
- Tullystown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. Sheridan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 164
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Song (continued)
“One time when a man named Killean owned a ranch in Licklea he evicted a number of poor people and Gaurds were minding the land.”
(continued from previous page)Said the sergeant "Im sorry had this dance at all"
Oh bad luck from these women melodeon and all
But one day we will repay them with power and ball
For the trick they have played on us to-day in Lickbla.The ladies made answer you [...]-faced [...]
You fat-headed gobeens you thick-headed loons
You think t'was your beauty attracted us there
But we have come to detain yous and let the lads clear
All the vermin that pestered the plains of Lickbla.For these were the lands that our fore-fathers tilled
Where the homeless were sheltered the homeless were filled
Where the golden grain glistened in sunshine and breeze
And the rosy-cheeked apples adorned the trees
Around those beautiful homes that were once in Lickbla.Names of person who told poem John O Reilly(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mollie Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullystown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen Connell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 33
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tullystown, Co. Westmeath