School: An t-Éadan Mór
- Location:
- Edenmore, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac Philib
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- (continued from previous page)Which won't detain you long.
In old I veleary by the hills.
My youthful days passed by;
The Famine came and fills the Cills
I aw my father die.
II
The bailiff with the "notice" came.
The bit of ground was gone
I saw the roof-tree in a flame
The crow-bar work was done
With neither house nor bed nor bread
The Workhouse was my doom
And on my jacket soon I read:
"The Union of Macroom".
III
My mother died of broken heart
My uncle from the town
Brought for her a horse and cart
And buried her in Gleown
I joined the "Red-Coats" then
Mo leir! what would my father say?
And I was sent in one short year
On service to Bombay.
IV
I thought to be a pauper
Was the greatest human curse.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridie Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr James Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Tamlat, Co. Monaghan