School: Castlemaine (C.)
- Location:
- Castlemaine, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean an Chaomhánaigh
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- A Local Poet
Some one asked me some time ago, if I ever heard of a poet that lived at Brackhill Cross named Sylvester oShea (Brackhill Cross is quite close to the Castlemaine Railway Station) I replied I did, and that he flourished at the time oConnell was making his great effort to Repeal the Union. He was a personal friend of the Liberator, because he seemed a bit richer after an interview than before. He praised the great man in the following lines:-
Thrice welcome, brave oConnell,
Our guiding star, through bondage drear
Who freed us without ransom
Throught torture and through galling chain
Who wrought Emacipation
Against the tyrants, made a stand
And now in spite of fate, he'll win
Repeal for Paddy's Land.
He spoke at a meeting held in Milltown in favor of some candidate whom oConnell put forward, in the opening words of his speech he said "Cheers for the great Liberator(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynamona Lower, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- William Hanifin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Laharan, Co. Kerry
