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1. Local Poets (continued)

   

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   The war-cry still ringing, the bright day is dawning,
   There is hope from high Heaven 'tis the turn of the tide.
   II
   We were told that the days of the usurper were over,
   That we'd never more witness the crow-bar brigade,
   That landlords and agents were banished for ever,
   Brave Ardagh done well in the fight that was made.
   III
   'Tis years since Miss Gardiner put out her tenants
   And forced them away o'er the waves of the deep,
   And some have returned to the home of their childhood,
   The land of their birth, where their forefathers sleep.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Elizabeth Herbert

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballinlabaun, Co. Mayo