School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)

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1. Local Song (continued)

   “On a fine November's day the lorries left Macroom.”

   

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   battle of Mons;
   When we saw the black smoke rising high we knew our boys had won,
   The lorries they were set in fire, the Black and Tans were done.
   IV
   The people of the district ran in terror of their lives,
   And married men of sixty left their children and their wives;
   These men of course were innocent but still what could be done,
   They had to be protected from the bayonet and the gun.
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   The soldiers of the castle did not search at all that night,
   The following day they found their dead it was an awful sight;
   They burned stacks of straw, ricks of turf, and sheds of hay,
   O God rest the brave rebels boys who

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Murphy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Barnadivane, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Patrick Lehane

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   49

   Address

   Deshure, Co. Cork