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School: Dún Ceann Fhaolaidh (roll number 15499)

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Dunkineely, Co. Donegal
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Seaghan Mac Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1038, Page 333

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  1. The Great Drowning in Bruckless Bay - February 12-13 1813 (continued)

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    Who yester eve were filled with live
    O God! had they to die.
    The sky is rent with cries and groans
    Of loving parents and kin;
    Who gather up their dead ones bones
    Who’ve paid the debt of sin.
    How many perished in the waves?
    How many still alive?
    Alas ‘tis sad nay far too bad
    Death claimed eighty five
    From Teelin bay to Inver quay,
    Wherever fishers dwell
    There’s grief and woe in many a home
    Which only time will quell.
    From far and near came mourners drear
    Their last respects to pay
    To the luckless, lowly fisher folk
    Who died in Bruckless Bay.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
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        1. the great famine (~4,013)
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