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1. Death of Seán McGowan (continued)

   

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   A boy named Seán mc Gowan
   Whose deeds of valour far and near
   Have won for him renoun
   T'was then too that Irish spies
   Were in the R.I.C.
   And it was then too that men were bought for Englands L.S.D.
   But mc Gowan he played a manly part and refused for them to cease
   He led his men to victory with an Irish soldiers ease
   And when they could not capture him
   In the thickest of the fight
   They came as England always came
   At they dead hour of the night
   Yes they came yet not with marshal cry
   Like men who knew no fear
   They came like the slinking sloth hound
   That tracts the noble deer
   They surrounded the little dwelling house
   Of poor old Patrick Dyer
   With English "Tans" and R.I.C.
   With rifles at the fire
   The spy that led them to the place
   Stood by with down cast
   When he was asked by the English captain
   Was that the man he caught

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)
   2. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Treasa Ni Flionn

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cloggarnagh, Co. Roscommon