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   She caoined aloud in anguish wild,"
   I thought her heart would break,
   Lamenting for her darling son
   That was drowned in Quilca lake."
   Peter Smith Stravianabo made the "Hackler from Grousehall" over sixty years ago.
   This is the first verse.
   "I am a roving Hackler.
   That loves the shamrock shore,
   My name is Pat Mac Donnell,
   And my age is eighty four.
   Im loved and well respected,
   By my neighbours one and all,
   Round sweet Stradone I am at home,
   Round Laragh and Grousehall."
   He made it because Pat was drunk and the Sergeant of Grousehall arrested him. Then he made another song.
   "The Sergeant's Protest."
   "Each loyal man of such there can,

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Rathallaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Micheál Mag Gabhann

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Greaghduff, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Proinnsias Ó Rathallaigh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan