School: Baile Meadhonach (roll number 10675)
- Location:
- Ballymanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheal Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0036, Page 0013
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On Old Song (continued)
“The grey dawn had crept o'er the stillness of morning.”
(continued from previous page)Send me back to an old Irish grave
My conscience shall never convict me, he said with a last dying sigh.
May God bless the cause of old Erin, for you now I am going to die.
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He thought of the love of his feeble old mother
He thought of a Colleen ever dear to his his heart
The tears of affection he scarcely could smother
Not knowing how soon from them both he must part.
He feared not to die though his poor heart was broken
When he simply rembered those he loved well
And the shamrock he pressed to his heart as a token(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Fallon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Emlagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyshea, Co. Galway