School: Doire Iubhair (roll number 7194)
- Location:
- Derryoober West, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séan Mac Diarmuda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0394
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A Local Song
“all you thats at your liberty”
All you thats at your liberty
I hope you will not fear,
To read those few and simple lines
For we who hold so dear
In prase of bowles and tully
The convicts from Loosecaun
Who near afraid to face their foe
Without either sword or gun
Young Kelly was his parents joy.
As he was there only son
To take his life that very night
Old Callaghan charged his gun
To see his poor aged parents
Looking on there onley child
As the blood came flowing from
his wonds how bitterly they cried.
II
They blessed the day and so they may
That the Connaught boys came o'er
Who bravely fought to save his life
For Kelly was no more
They did not come prepared to kill
As you may plainly see
They were not afraid to see their Judge
For they thought hed set them free
They only fought to save themselves(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Micahel Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Woodford, Co. Galway