School: Gortnaskeagh (roll number 16321)

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1. A Song

   “Come all ye true (and) brave Irish men,”

   

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   Come all you true and brave Irish men,
   Attend both young and old,
   I claim your kind attention,
   To those lines I do unfold,
   You all heard of Lord Leitrim,
   Who meet [met] a sad downfall,
   Near to the town of Milford,
   In the county Donegal.
   2
   In some cases of eviction,
   His Lordship down did fall,
   Not thinking for a moment,
   It would prove his overthrow,
   Or that men would lie in Ambush,
   All for him there to wait,
   On which his clerk and driver,
   Met a untimely fate.
   3
   It was the 2th October,
   At half past nine o'clock,
   When his car had come to Gortla wood,
   They got a fearful shock,
   Makim was nocked senseless,

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Gilmartin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tawnymoyle, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mr Gilmartin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Tawnymoyle, Co. Leitrim