School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 012
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“Some facts about Derrycarn as related in the following poem in which Mick Beirne, Derrycarn is the chief character and he is also the composer.”
(continued from previous page)It was there I was taken prisoner from the side of Lucy Webb.
V
When I was taken a prisoner it grieved me to the heart
To think that in one moment my love and I should part.
She screamed and bawled as if she was mad
And the very flushes forsook the cheek of the child called Lucy Webb.
VI
The day then of the trial it grieved me to the heart.
To hear her damned old father hon bitterly he swore
He swore she had a fortune of a thousand or more
That was the reason I did elope with the child called L.W.
VII
The judge said to Lucy, "how did the man behave"?
She said, my lord and jury, not one hand on me he laid.
He pronounced her as a true virgin as he spied her childish frock.
Young Beirne smiled upon the child as he stood in the dock.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Minnie Maxwell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Furnace or Bleankillew, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mick Beirne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71