School: Garrdha Dubhlios, Pálás Gréine (roll number 10991)
- Location:
- Garraí Dúlas, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Nuanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0518, Page 044
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“Last Summer next Winter the year before last / A man with a hammer stood breaking his fast.”
(continued from previous page)people say
He would cat no less than nine
meals a day
He would stay in bed sparing his
clothes
And learning his head with the nails
of his toes
IV
One night he got up and the candle he
lit
He seized a revolver and soon loaded it
I'll stand it no longer he savagely
said
So he blew out the candle and went back to bed
V
The last time I saw him oh he was
very ill
On a leaf of tobacco he wrote out
his will
He screamed with a whisper don't
sigh for my death
And it was with a corkscrew he drew
his last breath
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We carried him along till we reached(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Comans
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloch an Riadaigh, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- John Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male