School: Leachtbhruadair (Loughfooder) (roll number 14366)
- Location:
- Lackbrooder, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál P. Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)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 plumeAs 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"(continues on next page)- 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