School: O' Connor Don
- Location:
- Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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- In the times of the Land League and Home Rule movements the Ballad singer was a noted figure. He went from town to town and sang and sold his own ballad on fair days and market days. Jim Crow was one of the best known of these. This is one of his I got from an old age pensioner John Finan of Cloonboniffe who sings this ballad yet.
I
This is the style of our Jubilee County
Measure the vilence of an infamous law
Placing every one of the thirty two counties
Under the scope of an infamous law.
II
But will we submit to the act of atrocity
Will we be crushed by a coward by blow
Will we be frighted by Tory ferocity
Ireland shouts out and the answer in "no".(continues on next page)- Collector
- Colm O' Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon