School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)

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1. Local Poets

   

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   Mr Furlong of Ballyvaldon gave me the following bealoideas:

   At Buffers Alley six miles N.W. of this locality lived two characters 'Mickey the Goat' and 'Tom the Poet.'

   Tom had a sick horse and so had a sack thrown over it while in the stable. The horse by some means left the stable and went astray, and of course Tom the Poet had to go look for it.

   While doing so he met Micky and:

   "Did you see 'eer a quadruped"
   "I gazed on his rusty old coat
   It took me sometime to consider
   That he belonged to a poet"

   And Tom:

   And from the height of your 'baver' (hat)
   To the bit of hair that's under your chin
   It takes me no time to consider
   That you belong to goat

   
   Then there was Owen Leary an uncle of John Belvin's mother. He'd rhyme on anything I have heard it said. He with two more brothers

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr Furlong

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyvaldon, Co. Wexford