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 113
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- The song is supposed to be about a man who fought during the 1921 Civil War in Ireland, afterwards emigrated to America, and relates the state of affairs in Ireland to an American. I
Up the streets of New York City
walked an Irish lad in green
Whom I'm told was one of DeValera's and as I chanced to meet him I no doubt did surely greet him
When he told me all his troubles there and then.
That he had just arrived from Ireland to the land of liberty.
Since all things failed in dear old Ireland o'er
But whatever this change might bring this short song he'd always sing
Though an exile cast on a distant(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fostragh, Co. Roscommon
