School: Áth Treasna (B.) (roll number 11236)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dálaigh
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- Now, Irishmen, the world o'er
I hope you will attend
Till I relate the story
And the truly tragic end
Of patriotic John Twiss
The bravest of the brave
Whose body sleeps within the prison walls
In an unhonoured graveII
The story is a sad one
The heroic man struck down
By the blood money and perjury
Of a harsh relentless crown
On the twenty-seventh of April
They arrested this brave man
And brought him to Newmarket
Where his trial straight beganIII
They lost no opportunity
To make him change his coat
But he always answered proudly(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick O' Driscoll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Scarteen Lower, Co. Cork