School: Eslin (roll number 10026)
- Location:
- Eslinbridge, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 423
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“Twenty years boy to-day I grasped my mother's hand”
Twenty years boy to-day, I grasped my mother's hand
While my fortune I mean to try all in a foreign land.
The neighbours tore me from her breast, and told her I must go.
And I could hear (her) my mother speak her voice been faint and low.
II
Good bye Johnie dear and when you are far away
Don't forget your poor aged mother far across the seas
Write her a letter now and then and send her all you can
And do not forget where aer you rome,
Buy you are an Irish man.
III
My friends I bid you all adieu - I can us longd [?] stay
My fortune I mean to try all in America(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pilib Mac Aonghusa
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim