School: Ardlow
- Location:
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Síomain
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- (continued from previous page)I love you more than tongue can tell
And who can love you more?
Though I may roam to a foreign land
Where I'll never hear oppression's moan
On earth to me there's none so grand
As my own dear, native Irish home.
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“James Tevlin born in 1798 (Spring or Summer) at Billywood or Farnadowney...”
James Tevlin born 1798 (Spring or Summer) at Billywood or Fernadowney 1 1/2 miles from Mullagh Parish of Moynalty and Barony of Kells Co Meath, died 1873.
Poems were numerous very few scraps kept by the poet himself - he had a custom of sending his pieces to friends
Mr Matthew Gilsenan Billywood now Loughan and Poet's son Mr Bernard Tevlin Dublin supplied most of these pieces from memory in 1938 both men are now well over 80 perhaps almost 90 years old. These poems never saw print. - The Debate with the Devil.
The poet tells of the following debate which he had with the devil whom he met carrying a pith-fork in his hand.
The poet assailed his Satanic majesty thus:-
Behold the author of discord and pride
The base assassin and the tyrant's guide
The filthy source of brutal lust and sin
The least described by John's unerring pen
From his intrigues vice and temptations flow
He's man's eternal everlasting foe.(continues on next page)
