School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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“Some facts about Derrycarn as related in the following poem in which Mick Beirne, Derrycarn is the chief character and he is also the composer.”
(continued from previous page)Until his daughter fell in love with me and induced me from my home.
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Lucy being as fair a lass as ere the sun shone on
She was brought up in a boarding school and could play on her pi - an.
She told me how her heart did throb and her - did grate.
I endeavoured late and early to please young Lucy Webb.
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Lucy slept in her Mamma's room when her sister did her spy.
Making her escape in - state Mick Beirnes skill to try
She escaped out through a window as she left her Momma's bed
That was the plan adopted by the child called Lucy Webb.
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That very night we both set off our fortunes for to crown
When the telegram wire's conveyed the news that day to Edgeworthstown
As we went into an eating house to have some tea and bread(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Minnie Maxwell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Furnace or Bleankillew, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mick Beirne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71