School: Cnapach (Crappagh) (roll number 7529)

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   Oh! how well I remember each day when the peal
   Of the Angelus Bell reached my ears in the field
   Sure it told me that Ellie of Carn so fair
   Had summoned the faithful to join her in prayer.
   And there I'd respond with uncovered head
   While joined with my friends (some long since are dead)
   And who sleep their last sleep in that old Chapel yard
   In God's blessed Acre in sweet Latnamard
   And here as I write from my cold prison cell
   Whilst doing "my bit" for the land I love well.
   In common with chums of the past not a few
   Including a chap from my native Cordoo (J. Fitzpatrick)
   One request I would ask that where'er I may die
   At home or in battle, or the scaffold so high
   That my mortal remains tho' from wounds they be scarred
   May be laid with my loved ones in sweet Latnamard.

   Composed by John Donaghy Cordoo Newbliss - now dead. He composed it while in prison in Belfast Jail in 1921.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   David Wales

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 70

   Address

   Crappagh, Co. Monaghan