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School: Béal Átha Conaill (C.)

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Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Mary Mulligan
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  1. The Little Irish Mother's Rosary

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    There's the same dear happy circle round the cabin's cheery blaze.
    With a little Irish mother telling tales of other days.
    She had one sweet holy custom which I never can forget
    And a gentle benediction crowns her memory for it yet.
    I can see that little mother still, and hear her as she pleads
    Now its getting on to bed-time
    All you children get your beads.
    There were no steel-bound conventions
    In that old-slab dwelling force
    Only this each night she lined us up
    To say the rosary
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs J. Mc Cabe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Snugborough, Co. Cavan