School: Mín Charraigeach (roll number 7188)
- Location:
- Meencargagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín Nic Ghiolla Uain
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- (continued from previous page)Called Erin’s lovely home.IVWe were scarcely seven days sailing
When a fever plagued our crew,
They were falling like autumn leaves,
Bidding friends and life adieu;
We raised a prayer to Heaven then
That ne’er again we’d roam
And leave the land where we were reared
Called Erin’s lovely home.VAt last my sister became ill,
Her life was taken away,
It grieved me very much to see
Her thrown into the sea;
She’s now asleep in the ocean deep
Where foaming billows roar,
Her friends they’ll mourn, but she’ll ne’er return
To Erin’s lovely home.VIWe are now in the Land of Liberty,
And plenty here does flow,
A tradesman here will have wages high
No matter where he goes;
There is nothing left to comfort me,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maggie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meencrumlin, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Tommy Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Meencrumlin, Co. Donegal