School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)

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1. Old Irish Tales

   

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   There is an old ruin of an old chapel in Keillishin. It is said that there is a trace of a hunt over the door. It is in honour of a prince who was killed while out hunting one day. One day while Finn and the Fianna were out hunting, the first animal they saw was a boar. The men let their dogs go. The boar wounded the dogs, then Finn slipped. Bran caught the boar by the neck and shook him too and fro as a puppy dog shakes a rug. Bran came up to Finn and allowed him to be caressed. Brand said to him "You were never wounded".

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   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)
   2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
         1. Fianna (~595)

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2. A Song - Black and Tan Gun

   

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   I am a merry plough-boy. I plough the fields by day, 'till the lightning class across my mind that I should go away. I'm tired of suvilen lives since the day that I should go away. I am going to join the I.R.A. and I'm off on to morrow morn.
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   I'm out for Dublin the Blues and the Blues Our helmet glitter in the sun Our bainets clash like lightening flash at the sound of the Black and tan gun.

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