School: Leachtbhruadair (Loughfooder) (roll number 14366)

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1. Shawn Day (continued)

   

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   To breathe the spirits' treasure
   To the memory of Shawn Day.

   When Famine, Greed and Tyranny,
   On Irishmen brought misery,
   And hunger, want and penury
   Last on us all a gloom,
   And the wail of lamentation
   Rang through the Irish Nation,
   This utter dire starvation
   We seemed a living tomb,
   Coffinless and shroudless
   Our funerals all crowdless,
   With Pharaohs all around us
   Rejoicing at our doom
   "Twas then O' Connor's labours
   Were crowining all his neighbours,
   And yet with prayers and praises
   His tomb we'll deck and plume

   As his body claims the tenement
   Erected as his monument
   Let every grateful penitent
   Who knew him in his day
   Thro' sorrow give a holiday
   In the "Mall" assemble for a day
   To raise an Irish "Crome"

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mícheál P. Ó Murchadha

   Gender

   Male

   Occupations

   Poet

   Teacher

   Address

   Knocknagashel, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mr. Denis Collins

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lackbrooder, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Patrick Robinson

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Teacher

   Address

   Lackbrooder, Co. Kerry