School: Kilcomreagh (roll number 9429)
- Location:
- Kilcumreragh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: B. Hickey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0733, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)Yet to delight old Tarns Halls
And send a thrill o'er plain and hill
Old Erin still shall rise once more
To sing the praise in future days
Of him who'll raise her from her gore
OConnell tried, he was denied
"That boon", he cried " "her wounds would heal",
And Limerick' Walls and Tara's Halls,
Resound the calls - Give no Repeal'
Let us be true and in seventy two
We'll have anew our flag of green
And seventy three please God we'll see
Home Rule to be in College Green
- I
You gallant sons of Granuaile come raise your banners high
And in the cause of liberty beneath them gain or die
And tell the Saxon horde of them you're not afraid
At home in "Mother Erin" to wear a green cockade.
II
And let their lordlings know, to them you'll not be slave(continues on next page)
