School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 219
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Amhrán (continued)
“Neigh on death their lay alas, a frail and failing man ¶ There came a hasty messenger, at his bedside did stand.”
(continued from previous page)right hand, your timely aid has turned the sherrifs cruel band.
You keep the roof tree over his head where he's still pines away,
a marty to consumption and a lingerer to decay.
Amhrán
“O the shores of green Erin ¶ Rise up form the sea ¶ That was cut by the waves of the birth place of me”
O the shores of green Erin
Rise up from the sea
That was cut by the waves of the birth place of me.
And only for her father the watchful old boy
She would be up and away with young Condy Molloy. - Collector
- Bella Mc Ginley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Parkmore, Co. Donegal