School: Tuairín Árd (roll number 14078)
- Location:
- Tooreenard, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Murchadha
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- This was composed by Eugene Meara aged 55, native of Cordal, when the dolers around the district were sent out working on the bog-road - under the Minor Relief Schemei
On a cold Monday morning, as the day it was dawning,
We were sent to SeppoDoody, to make a Bog-Road,
Where we met the green rushes, and cottage with bushes.
And the ancient old ruins of Patsheen Séan Óge's
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The weather being bad and the climate not warm -
We could not surrender and what could we do -
We were not long there, when we heard the alarm,
That all the poor dole-men were struck with the flue.
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It was hard for to leave, on those cold bitter mornings,
Or what was the cause of this scheme of relief,
We would sooner the dole that would come without warning,
Rolled up in a voucher for six pounds of beef.
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The names of those dole-men, are Jack Hann. and Lacy-Dan Cronin, O Meara, Jones and Mickeen.
There was Riordan and Teahan, Con Enright and Kerin,
Young Quarry and Baldwin and Seóirse Páídín.
v(continues on next page)- Collector
- Liam Ó Murchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocknagashel, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Eugene Meara
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Cordal, Co. Kerry