School: Ballinorley (roll number 11597)
- Location:
- Bellanurly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mrs Anna Ewing
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0160, Page 244
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- (continued from previous page)And then, in other verses he deals with life as it is lived in Ireland - in Calry and in Sligo particularly - with the unexcelled charms and attractions of the Homeland, and the friends he left behind him."I travelled far in foreign climes,
And look on scenes as fair ;
But there's a Soul in Ireland
you never meet elsewhere,"Finally, he lead us in imagination to our last home - the grave.
On Clogher churchyard he quaintly moralises in a long poem from which I cull the following verses :
"By Colga Lake there is a shady spot,
A rood or so, a little walled in lot ;
All folks are sad to enter that abode,
Yet there the weary leave aside their load ;(continues on next page)
- Collector
- A. J. Guring
