School: Cill Iubhair (roll number 10095)

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1. Football Matches in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   the people used to gather and pick a team and play between themselves to pass away the time.

   

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2. A Song

   “In the month of April 1908 there”

   

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   In the month of April 1908 there was a spree at Costello's Before Lizzie did migrate. Martin McNeill had been the captain And he travelled far and near Looking for subscribers to buy a barrel of beer The baintreabach in the corner. And he sitting like a dote And ere to his two shoulders like Harry Kelly's goat A quarter barrel of porter. A case of lemonade. The china down from Aughrim and the cake that Mary. This was composed by a man named Tom Murphy

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English