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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   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