School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)

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1. Local Poet (continued)

   

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   In his early years he was a black-smith. At that time he was noted for making spades. He was a terrible man for drinking. He spent every penny he earned on drink and he gave up working at his trade. Then he went around the roads begging and selling ballads. He made a song about the Old Age Pension when it came in force first and he made another song about himself.

   He got some kind of disease and was removed to Shillelagh hospital and died there in the year 1908.
   Here are some of his lines about the Old Age Pension.

   The Old Age Pension is a hokes,
   of that I am really sure.
   They give it to the Farmers,
   No Pension for the poor.

   

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2. Local Poet

   

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   There are many people around our district who wrote poems long ago.
   Mr. Patrick Cogley Townfarney, Adamstown, Co. Wexford, wrote a poem called The Galbally, Farmers. This poem contains a bit of a jig, and it ends up by saying; "Hurrah for the Galbally Farmers." He was born and

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peter Shannon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Galbally, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Mrs M. Shannon

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   44

   Address

   Galbally, Co. Wexford