School: Graiguenamanagh (B.) (roll number 16311)
- Location:
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cuanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 345
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- (continued from previous page)Now friends are scattered far and wide
I'm bleeding fast - whate'er befalls -
I'll venture to St Moling's walls;
I'll get the priest - then welcome death,
For "God and Country" my last breath.They found him in the early dawn,
Beside the holy altar there -
He was a widows' son - brave Shawn,
For him, good people, say a pray'r.
When through that hallowed place you stray,
On good St. Moling's patron day,
Remember then our friends who gave
Their lives for just - a Croppy's grave.
Brave earnest men, their bitter fate,
Our glory is - this - 'Ninety-Eight.the above song is written to the old Irish air of "The Wexford Rebel".
- Collector
- James Bennett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tinnahinch, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Miss Kate O Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
