School: Bracknagh (2)
- Location:
- Breacánach, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: S. Mac Giobúin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0800, Page 140
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Bracknagh (2)
- XML Page 140
- XML “A Song”
- XML “A Song - The Old Scholar Hat”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
A Song (continued)
“Summer grove may loose their gladness, winter winds may wander by.”
(continued from previous page)140
Thomas Quinn,
Clonmore,
Rathangan,
Offaly
Mrs Quinn
Clonmore
Rathangan
Offaly
- The old scolaire hat
I
Oh Patsy Byrne brag about the hat his father wore,
No doubt it was a great capin
The very days of yore
But now it's a little bit out of date
And let me tell you that
It wouldn't hold a candle to my old scolaire hat.
II
It was worn by my father at the patterns and the fairs,
And all the boys and pretty girls were sure to be all there,
It was built a hundred years ago
And little the worse by that,
And a regular lady dazzler is my old scolaire hat.
III
I met the king of England a week(continues on next page)