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School: Cnoc an Choillín, Cootehall

Location:
Knockaculleen or Hollymount, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Máire Ní Mhártain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 028

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    The following recitation was written and composed by Mr. James Higgins, of Garrow, Boyle, while prisoner in Boyle military barracks, and he considered it the most opportune time for its publication, now when his comrades are all at liberty.
    In Boyle Military Barracks we all [?] were interned,
    Pat Roddy, the Councillor, he being so well learned,
    "Faith", he says, "I'm impatient [?] stick all the while,
    With those twenty young prisoners awaiting their trial."
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English