School: Béal Átha Conaill (C.)

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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