Scoil: Gallbhaile (uimhir rolla 1316)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Local Poet (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   In his early years he was a black-smith. At that time he was noted for making spades. He was a terrible man for drinking. He spent every penny he earned on drink and he gave up working at his trade. Then he went around the roads begging and selling ballads. He made a song about the Old Age Pension when it came in force first and he made another song about himself.

   He got some kind of disease and was removed to Shillelagh hospital and died there in the year 1908.
   Here are some of his lines about the Old Age Pension.

   The Old Age Pension is a hokes,
   of that I am really sure.
   They give it to the Farmers,
   No Pension for the poor.

   

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

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2. Local Poet

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   There are many people around our district who wrote poems long ago.
   Mr. Patrick Cogley Townfarney, Adamstown, Co. Wexford, wrote a poem called The Galbally, Farmers. This poem contains a bit of a jig, and it ends up by saying; "Hurrah for the Galbally Farmers." He was born and

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Peter Shannon

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   Fireann

   Seoladh

   An Gallbhaile, Co. Loch Garman

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   Mrs M. Shannon

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   Baineann

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   An Gallbhaile, Co. Loch Garman