School: Gort na Gamhna, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 4000)
- Location:
- Gortnagowna, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Fógartaig
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A Song
“Come all you true born Irish men, I ¶ hope you will lend an ear ¶ And listen to those mournful lines ¶ I have just penned down here”
Come all you true born Irish men, I
hope you will lend an ear,
And listen to those mournful lines
I just have penned down here,
Leave aside your cares and trials
of memorial we will raise,
In memoery of the Mc Cormacks who
were hanged in Nenagh jail.In the year of 58 my boys that were
the troublesome times,
When (rules) ruins caused by eviction were
speading through our isle,
The landlords and agents were
rulers in our land,
'Twas then that Ellis got shot down
by some unknown hand,The news spread round Killahara that
Trant's agent he was shot,
The police they were informed and
assembled on the spot
They searched every field and
garden every lane and every shed,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Jerome Quinlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glastrigan, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Quinlan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Glastrigan, Co. Tipperary