School: Mín Charraigeach (roll number 7188)
- Location:
- Meencargagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín Nic Ghiolla Uain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 160
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- Twas on a summer evening
An old man bent with age
Landed at the village
From off that dusty stage,
“Is this the express office?
I came to meet our son,
They told me that the train
Was due at half-past one.”II“You’ve made a slight mistake, sir,
I’d like you for to know,
This is the express office
And not the town depot:”
“You do not understand me, sir,”
With trembling lips he said,
“He’s not coming as a passenger,
He’s coming to us dead.”III“He joined those Boys in Blue, sir,
And went off to the war,
Away from his dear parents,
Away from home so far
He’s broken his dear mother’s heart
And mine is broken too;
We told him that he’d come back dead(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Cassidy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Croaghonagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Croaghonagh, Co. Donegal
