School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)

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   “A - is the army that covers the ground,”

   

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   A is the army that covers the ground

   B is the buckshot they're getting all round

   C is the crowbar of cruellest fame

   D is our Davitt, a right glorious name

   E is the English who robbed us of bread

   F is the famine they left us instead

   G is for Gladstone, whose life is a lie

   H is the harvest we'll hold or we'll die

   I is the Inspector, who when drunk is bold

   J is the jarvey; we'll not drive him for gold

   K is Kilmainham where our true men abide

   L is the Land League, our hope and our pride

   M is the magistrate who makes the black of white

   N is no rent that will make our wrongs right

   O is Old Ireland that yet shall be freed

   P is the peelers who sold her for greed

   Q is the Queen, whose use in not known

   R is the rifles that keep up her throne

   S is the sheriff with woe in his train

   T is the toil that worked bitter harm

   V is the villain who grabs up a farm

   W is the warrant for death or for chains

   X is the Express, all eyes and no brains

   Y is Young Ireland spreading the light

   Z is the zeal that won the great fight

   

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Daniel Mac Gettigan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Mary Doherty

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   76

   Address

   Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal