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School: Dún Ceann Fhaolaidh (roll number 15499)

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Dunkineely, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seaghan Mac Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1038, Page 264

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    7.
    
‘Twas early next morning
    The news it went round.
    When the bodies of poor Kennedy
    And Donegan were found.
    To St John’s Point they drifted in,
    Almost hand in hand.
    Washed by the waves,
    They floated to the strand.
    

8.
    Just at the pier of Ballysagart.
    Touching to Relate,
    Alongside of the shattered boat
    Which caused their cruel fate
    Each had a solemn funeral
    Shall I forget the day.
    Their bodies with all honour due
    Were laid in Frosses Clay.
    9.
    The Sunday of the funeral
    It was a mournful day
    The people came in hundreds
    All their last respects to pay
    They came in grief from far and near.
    The country oer and oer
    And the tear of regret
    Falls from them yet
    For the fishers of Inver shore.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
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    Miss Cassidy
    Gender
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