School: Gort na Mara (Seafield) (roll number 11565)
- Location:
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghathaigh
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Sheridan from Coolcarney (popular version)
I.
I am a brave undaunted boy
Pat Sheridan is my name\From the chapel of coolcarney
Last Sunday as I came
As I passed by who did I spy
But yoemen on parade
And says one unto the other
Here comes the Ribbon Blade
II.
I bravely marched up to them
And they ordered me to stand
I did not know the reason why
They gave me such command
With their orange colours flying
In purple and cockade
And such company would never agree
With an Irish Ribbon Blade
III.
They marched me off to Sligo jail
My tria for to stand
For six long weeks or better
I lay in a prison cell
But all that time no friend I had(continues on next page)- Informant
- Thomas Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo