School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 280
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- (continued from previous page)65. Early this morning I drank at the spring.
gold was the cup and round was the ring.
Through iron bars and cold stone walls.
Riddle me that and I'm condemned.Ans. a man under trial on a serious charge, drinks from his mother's breasts through the prison gates.66. 'Tis in, 'tis out, 'tis like a trout, 'tis slippery wet and greasy. Ans. The tongue (and according to an old Priest it had an alternative, crude meaning).67. As I went round the straight, crooked, corner.
I saw the dead ass die.
I got out my pistol to shoot him.
But he handed me one in the eye.Ans. A pack of lies.(continues on next page)
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“Ould Hannon" or as I now understand him to be more generally known, "Hannon the poet" followed his occupation of poet-ballad-singer very often at the top of William St and at its junction with High St., in Limerick city.”
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