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1. Local Poets (continued)

   

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   to get money for their songs.
   The principal poets in the Smithboro district long ago were Peter Flynn of Kilcorran, John Murray Kerr of Whitefort and Francis Carroll of Coolatty. John Murray Kerr made the song about Lough Ooney in a lament for his brother, who was drowned while out on a boat on the lough.
   I do not know all the song but the first verse is as follows:-

   Ye bards of this nation, and sons of old Erinn,
   Come join me in deep consolation.
   To a hero of fame, Noble Murray by name,
   And a friend to a great Irish nation.
   The goods he enjoyed, and the sweats he employed;
   His spouse was far fairer than Genoa.
   But that plain of Columbus could not be compared,
   To the lovely sweet shades of Lough Doney.

   Peter Flynn made the song, "My dear home in Kilcorran." Init he shows how everyperson should love his home where he was born and reared. Pat Cadden knew this song but he is dead now and I think no one else knows it. Francis Carroll died in 1898. He had made many songs but the nicest ones were, "How I drove my jaunting car," and "When I roamed from home."

   

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patsy Meehan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Inishammon, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Joe Andrew

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   44

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Cloghmore, Co. Fermanagh