School: Ráth Séideóg (roll number 8786)
- Location:
- Rashedoge, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Brighid Ní Dhomhnaill
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- What sad fatality hangs like a pall
O'er Erin's gifted sons that they must die?
In manhood's useful prime they fade and fall
Afar and near in early graves they lie
And he whose loss to-day has made us sigh
And unavailing, little tears to shed
Was loved by all; Oh! quick the tidings fly
With wild lament - "John Boyle O'Reilly's dead."And far from Erin he has laid him down
Erin! to whom his first, best love he gave,
And whose reward was neither throne nor crown,
But gyves and shackles and an exile's grave,
Yet, better exile than a cringing slave
In this, our land, whence liberty has fled
He for her freedom was a champion brave,
Monar! Monar! John Boyle O'Reilly's dead.The blood of youth was coursing in his veins
And throbbed to set the wrongs of Eire right,
When first the tyrant bound him in his chains
Thus thinking then, as since, to quell the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Bridget Mc Ginley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Breenagh, Co. Donegal
