School: Island Parish
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Seán Ó Móráin
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- It twenty one years ago, since I left Erin go breag.
I'm returning again home to old Ballina,
It two miles from Clara, the journey is not far,
But as I was tired I took a car.
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The people were drawing the turf by the loads
From the bog that begins below the crossroads.
I heard Jim Daly singing the coercion bill
And Peter went whistling down by the lime kiln.
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I came on a bit farther and what did I see.
But the Gidger and Steve under Jimies crab tree.
That grows the sweetest of fruit that I ever have seen.
Except the sloes on the bushes in old Killick(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Minnock
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Bernard Minnock
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
