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School: Lemanaghan, Ballycumber

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Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Máire Galvin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 149

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    (continued from previous page)
    They call me Jimmy Flynn
    On the eighteenth day of October last
    All on the Queens highway
    The Kays they did assemble
    To draw their corn and hay
    Assisted by the Rahan boys
    Whose courage was so great
    They they would rather die like trogans
    Than Peelers to retreat
    Hall be been convenient
    Chief constable of the train
    They send and to Mount Bolus
    Where Belfort did remain
    To grant him his assistance
    Like wise power and ball
    And the swore that he would stop
    The Rahan boys
    Or else he would shoot them all
    But coming to the fatal spot
    On these the peelers fell
    The were full bent on murder
    to you the truth I'll tell
    Maninars was not more valiant
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Dhálaigh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrynagun, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    John Daly
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrynagun, Co. Offaly