School: Moyne (B.) (roll number 13989)
- Location:
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Doyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0766, Page 394
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- (continued from previous page)to-day and me watching for the letter crossed in blue to pay the rent. Biddy God bless her is the best child that ever crossed the shore. Isn't the Rosary offered in every home for "those at home and abroad" and so well it may. I often heard ould Master Browne calling "Emmigration" the child of the famine. I didn't know what he was aiming at then but I do now. Then he finished up with an old song about it:-
"There's no one to play the fiddle
There's no one to dance with me
Naught but a distraughted father
And a mother on bended knee.
We were all were spared from the famine
And oh tis hard to find
Even one colleen or bouchall
Walking the road to Moyne".
- Collector
- Francis Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Pat Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Longford
