School: Bilboa (B.) (roll number 15692)

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1. Local Poets

   

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   There was a poet named Pat Nolan who lived Bilboa about eighty years ago. He was not a native he came from Commonaline. His mother and father had a farm in Bilboa and he worked at Duggan's dairying. Most people did not like him because he made up songs about them. He made up this song about Sheehy's pink eyes (potato). Mr Sheehy bet a pound note Sir, That his son Dickie would dig from the ditch to the moat Sir, With Garnet or Nolan the poet Sir, For a handful of Sheehy's pink eyes. Nolan was the best poet at that time. Person from whom I received story} Laurence Hogan. Address} Ballyvoreen Murroe. What Barony} Owneybeg

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)
   2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Laurence Hogan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyvoneen, Co. Limerick

2. The Famine

   

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   About ninety two years ago there was a great Famine. There is no one in my district who has any story about it. The Famine in 1846 affected the district very much. The district was very thickly populated before the Famine. A great number of people died. There is an old house on the top of Pat O'Donnell's hill which was then occupied and is now an old

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