Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)

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1. Seamus Devins (continued)

   

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   Your missed upon the hill top, because your gone to ‘host’ a noble hearted Irishman, you died, as did the best for long your name shall live in fame, till England’s Flag goes down a ‘Republic’ flag, shall mark your grave, in your native Sligo town.

   

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   “I was never much good at tellin' sthories 'deed ta tell ye the thruth...”

   

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   I was never much good at tellin sthories ‘deed ta tell ya the thruth, don’t but I ushed ta hear the ould people talkin al tellin them often enough, an them sittin around here be the fire. I remember won night ta hear them tellin this won it was a man from up there at Ballinafad

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   Date

   21 March 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Bean Uí Cheallaigh