School: Ballyvaldon (roll number 10792)
- Location:
- Ballyvaldon, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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- Patrick Hackett - Poet Oulart
wrote the foll :-The Volunteers who were drowned to aid PopeCome all ye feeling Christians
I hope ye will attend
And likewise pay attention to those few
lines I've penned
It is of a dreadful accident alas I
do deplore
Which long can be remembered
around green Erin's shore
The news from Rome it did arrive
And spread through Erin's land
That our Pope he was in danger
And suffered in demand
Which caused those gallant Irish
youths to quickly volunteer
To protect him from this danger
without either dread or fearOn the 29th April in the year of '69
From Dublin quay we sailed away
God send us a fair wind
On board the "Abottucksey"
That ship of noble fame
In hopes to meet those infidels
Upon the battle plain(continues on next page)
