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School: Kilduff

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Kilduff Upper, Co. Cavan
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S. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0962, Page 074

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    During the time of the Land League a man in Ballinaglera named Tom Brady took a neighbours farm. He was boycotted and had to go to Dromahair for all his goods with an ass and cart and the people used to follow him with drums and horns. They pulled off the meal and flour and tramped it on the road. Here is a little song concerning him.
    July the eight, I'll mind that date, now and for ever more, to see eight hundred pipers march by Lough Shore,
    And when they came to Drumkeeran a cry rose in the air.
    To see Tom Brady and his ass and cart on their way from Dromahair.
    They marched him on to Dowra town and formed into a ring.
    "Shouting, "Peter Tareaway surrender to the king",
    "I will indeed" says Peter, "and its for a noble cause."
    "And to hell with Tommy Brady and all his crooked laws".
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Mc Grail
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Michael Kelleher
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45