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School: O' Connor Don

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Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon
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Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0247, Page 068

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    In the times of the Land League and Home Rule movements the Ballad singer was a noted figure. He went from town to town and sang and sold his own ballad on fair days and market days. Jim Crow was one of the best known of these. This is one of his I got from an old age pensioner John Finan of Cloonboniffe who sings this ballad yet.
    I
    This is the style of our Jubilee County
    Measure the vilence of an infamous law
    Placing every one of the thirty two counties
    Under the scope of an infamous law.
    II
    But will we submit to the act of atrocity
    Will we be crushed by a coward by blow
    Will we be frighted by Tory ferocity
    Ireland shouts out and the answer in "no".
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Colm O' Callaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon