School: Achadh an Easa (roll number 9814)
- Location:
- Aghavas, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Laoise, Bean Uí Chuag
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0228, Page 247
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- (continued from previous page)saucers porringers, mugs,
egg stans, salt-stans, plates and jugs,
tobacco, snuff and candles
wooden noggins with iron handles,
rakes and shovels, pitch forks & crooks
and a large supply of raping hooks.
I have here the best
I'm not in dread
of Irish manufactured thread.
Stuff sewed with it will never tare
till the cloth from round the sames do wear
I'm also selling pots of jam,
beef & mutton, veal and ham,
clogs and leggings, slippers, boots concertinas, fiddles, flutes.
So now to conclude and finish my rhyme
I'll interminate 'twas to advertise
my stock of goods
those few lines I did complite, so I'll advise all merchant men, who have some leisure time to advertise their stock of goods by putting them in a rhyme
for there in Coranure I lived all right
till the Magistrate noticed me one night
to lave. In the morning at day light
for Ballyduffy I did start
with my flitting upon an asse's cart.
I got a house from Dinny Grey
where I can live till my last day
in peace and plenty and content,
but I never will pay one penny rent.Paddy O'Reilly, nick named "Paddy The Lad" was(continues on next page)
