School: Béal an Dá Chab (C.) (roll number 14226)
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 425
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“Just after the war in the year's as soon as the boys were all scattered and beat”
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With a small share of sitting or resting or sleeping
And because they loved Ireland and scorned to sell it
A prey for the bloodhound and a mark for the bullet
Unsheltered by night and unrested by day
With the heath for their barrack revenge for their pay.
But the bravest and harries boy of them all
Was Seamus O'Brien from the town of Glengall.
His limbs were well set and his body was light
And the deep fanged hound has't teeth half as white
His dancing was such that the men used to stare
And the women turn crazy he(continues on next page)