School: Baile Meadhonach (roll number 10675)
- Location:
- Ballymanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheal Ó Raghallaigh
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- You Irish men and women its on
you now I call for my liberation
I thank you one and all.
Patrick Finnegan is my name.
My age is thirty three. Thank God and the Blessed Virgin from the scaffold I am free.
It was in the Co Galway I was
reared most tenderly.
Convenient to Craughwell as you
may plainly see.
I never injured any man I knew
in all my life.
And for the shooting of Peter Doherty
I never did the crime.
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The night that Doherty was shot
I was lying in my bed.
Although his sister she had sworn
I was benkind the hedge.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eileen Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carnanthomas, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Stephen Donohoe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roo, Co. Galway