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School: Dernakesh (B)

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Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
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T. Ó Comhraidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 409

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  1. Local Poets (continued)

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    VII
    By jove sayes Barney
    Mind you what I say
    You never will face
    This terrible bray
    VIII
    He faced it like fire
    N'er did his draft slack
    Till he landed poor Luggy
    At the turf stack
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Local Poets

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    Eddie McKenna who lived in Latully about sixty years ago wrote a poem about the green walk in Cootehill. John Fitzpatrick was his nearest neighbour. McKenna had a field of corn beside Fitzpatrick's house. His hens would be in McKenna's corn and none of them would ditch them out. McKennas the poer made a song about Fitzpatrick's hens and farm so that he might ditch them out.
    He also made a song about Poulthy
    Brendan Shalvey, Dernakesh.
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