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1. The Land League near Ballinamore (continued)

   

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   You were my prop and my chief supporter but now for ever you are in some hole?

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   But the leading cause of our agitation was to smash forever the evictor's yoke,
   And return again to their long lost homesteads the evicted tenants of old far-famed Stroke.
   Here's to the memory of immortal Davitt who raised the Land League in old Irishtown,
   When it spread like lightning over all this
   Nation and caused all landlords to it bow down
   They sneered at first at the thoughts of danger
   The Land League rules they did disregard,
   They could not see how the rack-rent income could be affected by the Shilling Card.
   But the Land League rules joined all creeds and classes, and joined them up in one solid band
   To fight the landlords the ''bums'' and grabbers
   and clear them wholesale out of this land
   But the Land League rules ended all land grabbing
   The eleven months system it had cast aside,

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   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. filíocht
         1. filíocht na ndaoine (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán Flood

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Béal an Átha Móir, Co. Liatroma