School: Lios Dubh (1) (roll number 14779)
- Location:
- Lisduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Philip Mc Guiness
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0212, Page 435
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A Song (continued)
“My name is Paddy Sheehan my age is thirty four.”
(continued from previous page)Bereft of home and kith and kin and plenty all around.
I starved within my cabin and I slept upon the ground
But cruel as my lot was then, no hardship did I know.
Until I joined the English army far away from Aherlow.
Rise up there said the corporal you lazy Irish hound.
Did you not hear the call to arms sound
Alas I had been dreaming of days gone long ago.
I woke before (sep) Sepastrobool
But not in Aherlow
O Blessed Virgin Mary
Mine is a mournful tale
A poor blind prisoner here I am
In Dublin's dreary jail.
Struck blind within the trenches
Where I never feared a foe
And now I ne'er shall see again
My own dear Aherlow.
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Leitrim