School: Ballyvongane (Measctha)

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1. The Women of Ireland - Their Share (continued)

   

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   With heroes who sleep on the hillside He lies neath the shamrock and sun. Tho' bowed with the weight of her sorrow, His mother is proud of her son. The "gunmen" done in" in the "scrapping" May be to a moment's pain wed. But the mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts Must live with the ghosts of the dead.

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2. Local Poets

   

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   Cornelius T. Aherne of Carrigthomas, Ballinagree, Aghinagh, composed many beautiful songs during his life-time. He died about sixty years ago at the early age of thirty.
   Many stories are told of how he got the gift of verse-making. Some say that in his early youth he slept by the bank of a river one night and waking in the morning found to his astonishment that he had acquired the gift of poetry in some mysterious manner. This, however, is untrue as his sisters and nephew were also able to compose.
   Among his many songs, and ballads, were, "The Praises of Macroom". The Praises of

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