School: Gort na Gamhna, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 4000)
- Location:
- Gortnagowna, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Fógartaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0537, Page 126
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A Song (continued)
“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”
(continued from previous page)Until they came to the Mc-Cormack's house
Where those two young men lay in bed,They accused those boys of murder
from the information they had got,
From a coachman that was driving
at the time that Ellis got shot,
They said that they were innocent,
but 'twas all of no avail,
They were handcuffed and made
prisoners of, and conveyed to Nenagh jail.At the Springy Assizes as those two
young men stood their trial in
Nenagh town,
And by a packed jury of Orange-men
they were guitly found,
The judge addressed those prisoners
and asked them what they had to say,
Before he would sign their execution
for the eleventh of May,'Twas in Killahara we were reared
Between Thurles and Templemore,
We were known by all the inhabitants
round the parish of Loughmore,(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