School: Droim Seanbhó Thuaidh
- Location:
- Drumshanbo North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1127, Page 101
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- (continued from previous page)(VII)
I asked him was there any chance
Of curbing the police advance
Or were they going to domineer
Without check or obstruction here
He says "That question all depends
Upon the strength of Land League friends
And if they come prepared & strong
We WILL resist the men of wrong".(VIII)
We were discussing this allow
When the common harbinger of woe
The process server - did appear
(en) Compassed with bobbies front & rear
In close compact columns were these
All led by subs & C.P.T's
To have the work of evil done
Before the setting of the sun
Because the law (God bless the mark)
Forbids such business after dark.(IX)
I saw these fell-besiegers now
With fury pictured on each brow
And fabres (sic) fixed in battle style
Advancing onward rank & file
Their steady independent gait
Showed power and discipline great
And in discharge of their foul mission
They disregarded opposition.(X)
But their conjectures were not sound
For hills & glens did all resound
With shouts & cheers denoting then(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Duignan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltycreevagh, Co. Longford
