School: Baile Locha Riabhach (Clochar)

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1. A Local Song (continued)

   “About the people who lived”

   

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   and here is where you would see, the great old Irish dancers of the west, the women folk with their grand red petticoats and their small plad shawls on their shoulders neat low shoes and black stockings, dancing so gay to that famous old tune "The rocky road to Dublin". III The cocks and the hens who were reared in this little village would come down from their roost and go out into the little yards, on a Sunday night, to listen to the strains of those great old Irish melodies played by old John Monohan on his violin IV This beautiful village has vanished, grand stories no more do we hear, but the rumble and bumble of motors electricity now in the air that violin which once gave the music to people, light hearted and gay, has passed to some friends o'er the waters, From this beautiful hill at Loughrea.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Martin Kelly

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