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School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)

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Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Kathleen Grehan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0731, Page 017

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    “A song written by Michael Brennan Cloneyhague.”

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    "Here's a health to Mr.Daniel
    He's a man of fame and skill
    If he fell out with you in the morning
    calld you fifty crooked aged rogues
    He'd forgive you in the evening
    And save you from the Vignolds.
    The Vignolds were priest hunters,
    and lived in Newtown. Lowes,
    Rochforts and Pilkingtons were
    priest-hunters from the same district."
    James Gilligan - aged 70 gave me this and he heard it from the lips of Michael Brennan, March 1938
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. A Funny Story

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    Once a man named Bill Meeks went to catch his ass. He caught him in Meeltagh, at about ten o'clock on a moon-lit night. When he started for home the moon went down and every place was very dark and everywhere Bill went there was a bog-hole in front of him. After a while he heard a
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