School: Maigh Sheasta

Location:
Moyasta, Co. Clare
Teacher:
P. De Priondargas
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    My pen it would fail me to tell of the fun,
    With dance and with song when the aitin' was done -
    The House Burners' Jig, and Emergency Fling,
    The Rackrenters' Chorus, and God Save the King.
    With cabbage their pusses were grasy,
    Their noddles with porther, were crazy,
    But the day of the Eviction - Made-Aisy
    Is coming in Kilballyowen.
    And now to conclude and to finish my stave,
    Here's a hot curse apiece to the tyrant and slave;
    And down with the sneaks who our cause would renage,
    And hurrah for ould Ireland and up with the Laigue"
    The flunkeys we'll trample them down, sir,
    Come they from country or town, sir,
    We heed not their threat nor their frown, sir,
    And we'' fight to the death for our own!
    I.I.L.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
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    English