School: Riverchapel (roll number 15367)
- Location:
- Riverchapel, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Brighid Ní Dhonnchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0888, Page 047
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Riverchapel
- XML Page 047
- XML “Poem Called Margarine”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Poem called Margarine
By the late Seán Etchingham'Twas the first day of October in the glorious year '16,
That I first became acquainted with that stuff called margarine,
High up on the heights of Dartmoor in my lonely prison cell,
Where they carried me from Ireland because I did rebel.11
They were running round the breakfast, aye
breakfast so they said,
A pint of pasty porridge with a lump of blackish bread,
When in a tin like Poll Burke's snuff box to my
great surprise I seen,
A little bit of yellow grease 'twas labelled Margarine.111
I couldnt ask the warder he was going at such a pace,
The serving of the meals in jail was like a desperate race,
And if you dont leave your little stool in time to reach the door,
You'll find your stave off hunger stuff all strewed upon the floor1111
Well I felt it and I smelt it and I turned it with care,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Timothy Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Courtown, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- James Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Riverchapel, Co. Wexford
