School: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (roll number 14243)
- Location:
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br Columban Ó Cróinín
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- (continued from previous page)warms my heart to see,
Their modest rosy faces and to
hear their sinless glee,
And now I'll go amongst them as
I often did before
Though, alas! I'm not as merry as
I was in days of yore. - You true sons of Erin, come now raise your voice,
The day is our own we have cause to rejoice,
For the "Sassanagh tyrants will soon have a fall.
And peelers and proctors must go to the wall
And its down with knavery
And Saxons , and slavery
Hurra, for the whitefeet and bold Captain Rock.
II
Too long had the cold hearted Saxons their way
And the gay sun of Freedom in bigotry lay;(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peter Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois