Scoil: Presentation Convent, Lucan

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Fête of the Trysting Tree (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   and so far as we can conjecture by the aid of a foot-note; much thumbed and almost illegible, the object of the piece is to commemorate an event, real or imaginary, in which a small boy, remarkable for his bearty and grace - probably intended for Prince Charles in his boyhood, with a satrical eye to his count, or some passing assembly (the name Hancy implying, as we presume, a contraction of handsome) - is invited with some other neighbouring youths, to contend in a dance for a prize to be awarded by the queen of the fairies then assembled under the 'Tryating-Tree' to celebrate their hallow-eve; to which, by rather a wild stretch of the poetic licence in the author, a host of naturally antagonistic vermin and

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary Greene

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Baile Uí Dhúda, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath

   Faisnéiseoir

   John Greene

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Baile Uí Dhúda, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath