School: Glendalough

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Glendalough, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Bean Uí Ghabhann

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Local Poets

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 391

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Thomas Moore was a great poet. These are some of the songs he wrote

"The Meeting of the Waters" and "By that lake whose gloomy shore" A place in Avoca there is a tree called "Tom Moore's Tree". It is called "Tom Moore's Tree" because he made that poem "The Meeting of the Waters"
Tom Moore also wrote "The Harp that once through "Tara's Hall" "The Milesians" and many other poems. Another poet was Thomas Davis he wrote the poem of "My Land" " A Nation Once Again" and many others
Máire Fairsing
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Máire Fairsing
Gender
female
Address
Annamoe, Co. Wicklow
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John Fortune
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male
Age
48
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siúinéir
Address
Annamoe, Co. Wicklow
Language
English