School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 402
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- (continued from previous page)Poem
And the priest like a wolf had a price on his head,
To be tracked like a beast, caught live or dead.
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But fierce as fire though the foeman's hate,
And bitter and cruel the martyr's fate,
The priest was known
In Inishowen;
And Mass was said, and in mountain and glen
The Redeemer's message was given to men.
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And loved amongst all, the best was he,
Who bore the name, Friar Hegarty,
By a cliff near the wave,
In a lonesome cave,
He had his refuge, and was safe, content,
Till a varlet's greed the soldiers sent.
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In the night they sped from Buncrana's town,
With sabre and bayonet to bear him down -
But hark, the cry:
"Up, Father, fly!"
Rings wild and clear o'er the billows boom,
And a signal light cleaves the night's deep gloom.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- William Roddy
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Editor
