School: Coill Sailighe (roll number 4855)
- Location:
- Kilsallagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Ghiobáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 273
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A Song (continued)
“In Bodens town bhurch yard”
(continued from previous page)sweeps down on the plaines of Kildare.II
Once I lay on the sod that lies over Wolfe Tone. I thought how he perrished in prison alone.
His friends there un avenged his country unfreed
How bitter I said is his patriots needIII
For in him the heart of a woman combined
With a heroic life and a governing mind
A martyr for Ireland his grave had no stone
His name seldom named and his country unknown.IV
I a woke from my dream by the voices and treads
Of a band that came home to the grave of the dead
They carried no corps and they carried no stone(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilsallagh Lower, Co. Mayo