School: Barrlinn
- Location:
- Inchinarihen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chruadhlaoich
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- Unpublished poetry composed in this parish in the last century. I got this poem from Mrs. E. Cotter Derrynafinchin Borlinn, Aged 78.The Rustic MinerMy home is in the mountain tops
My bed's among the willows
I envy not the lazy fops
Who lounge on downy pillows
What care I for a city life
For nought to me seems finer
Than to be free from crowded strife
And be a rustic miner.Let farmers prate of cows and bulls
And soldiers talk of fighting
And sailors sing cross-yards and hulls
And lawyers live by writing
But I'll not swop for any trade
From governor down to joiner
Of hard work I was ne'er afraid
For I'm a rustic miner.And when the sun with radiant hue,
Peeps o'er the eastern mountain,
To quaff the morning's glistening dew,
Or gild the rippling fountain(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mrs E. Cotter
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Derrynafinchin, Co. Cork