School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 15457)
- Location:
- Cappoquin, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: An tSiúr M. Teresita
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0637, Page 147
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Redmund Kiely used to compose. The poems used to be published in a book called "The Penny Readings" as there were no papers then. Some of the poems composed by Cappoquin poets, I am told, are in a book called "Voices of the Heart"John WalsheThere were three brothers of them. Dick Walshe, a schoolmaster in Modeligo John had to leave this place and went down to Ballinameald. He got a big school Ardmale ? from Dr. Cooke. He was a poet. He liked a girl and dedicated this poem to her . Her(continues on next page)
