School: An Druipseach
- Location:
- Dripsey, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Tuathaigh
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- Written by Seán O'Tuathaig O.S. Dripsey. Cork. Supposed to be composed by an Inchigeela man named Jim Cooney, about a young girl named Mary O'Rielly of same place.
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I greet you proud Eveleary's sons and daughters fair and true.
Assembled in this South End Club old friendships to renew.
Your present hospitality I'm loth to let it pass.
Ere I recite a tale to night on my Inchigeela Lass.
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Eveleary! oh, how sweet that name rings on an exiles ears.
Tho' I have not seen your heath clad hills for five and twenty years.
'Tis there I met my hearts delight one Sunday morn at Mass.
As I knelt in prayer in that chapel there with my Inchigeela Lass.
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She was modest as a cooing dove as gentle as the fawn.
That roams o'er Desmond's storied heights or the highlands o'er Gougane.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Seán O Tuathaig
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir