School: Dún Ceann Fhaolaidh (roll number 15499)
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- Dunkineely, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seaghan Mac Cuinneagáin
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- (continued from previous page)Who yester eve were filled with live
O God! had they to die. The sky is rent with cries and groans
Of loving parents and kin;
Who gather up their dead ones bones
Who’ve paid the debt of sin. How many perished in the waves?
How many still alive?
Alas ‘tis sad nay far too bad
Death claimed eighty fiveFrom Teelin bay to Inver quay,
Wherever fishers dwell
There’s grief and woe in many a home
Which only time will quell.From far and near came mourners drear
Their last respects to pay
To the luckless, lowly fisher folk
Who died in Bruckless Bay.