School: Doire Clathach (Derryclough), Drom Dhá Liag (roll number 11931)
- Location:
- Derryclogh Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Firbisigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0300, Page 172
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For four long days he fought the foe by the Liffey's curling waves
And by Boland's Mills he helped to fill the ranks of the true and brave
But on the fourth and bloody day the saw news came to me
That in the midst of the fighting fell my Pádruig Óg Mo Chroide
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His faithful comrades told to me the tale of his noble death.
How he thought of me how he spoke of me in his last and dying breath.
They laid him down for his last long sleep among the noble and the free
And they left me here for to mourn and weep for my Pádruig Óg mo Chroide(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eamonn Mac Firbisig
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Risteárd Mac Firbisig
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockeenbwee Lower, Co. Cork
