School: Taobh Breac (roll number 15227)
- Location:
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Donnchadh E. Mac Congáile
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- 1. In the battle of life with its woes and depressions,
I withstood the cares and sorrows of the day,
The agony of parting with friends and relations
When they sailed in the ships to the lands far away
But there is a sorrow deep down in my heart
That always can bring a sad memory to me
Of the day I was forced from my Noreen to part
And I heard the sad wail of McGowan’s Bean Sidhe.2. By the little white cot at the end of the boreen
The moon shed her silvery light o’er the lea;
I stood by the gate and was talking to Noreen
The night that I heard the McGowan’s Bean Sidhe3. With a laugh like the song of the lark in the morning
My Noreen was blithe and as brisk as a bee,
The auburn ringlets her white brow adorning,
Her eyes spoke of love as she whispered to me.
I was glad that she loved me, and proud I had won her
And I was as happy, as happy could be
Ah! little I knew of the call that was on her
The night that I heard the McGowan’s Bean Sidhe4. And when they brought me the news the next morning
My Noreen had gone to the angels above.
‘Twas then that I full understood the dread warning
And sorely I wept o’er the loss of my love
All night had I dreamed of the weeping and wailing
Awake, I would wonder for whom it could be
And whilst I’d been dreaming, grim death had been stealing
In the blossom of life my sweet colleen from me.FINIS- Collector
- Donnachadh E. Mac Congáile
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- James Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal