School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)

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   able to make up and it would banish rats from a house. I do not know of any songs told locally .

   

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   Long ago about a hundred years ago they was a poet in Glenbreeda. His name was Michael Shaw Glenbreeda Borrisoleigh. He used to make poems and stories and sometimes give the night up writing it. He is buried about fifty years . He is buried in Upperchurch. It id said that his grandfather before was a poet. It is also said that he was bron with a gift. THey are both daed now. They were another poet in Grange townsland of Borrisoleigh in Co.Tipperary. He used to make up a poem and compose it in English . He did not know and Irish . His name was Willie Brennan he emigrated to the United States in 1912 and never came back . He got the gift of poetry from his grandmother in Grange. I do not know any verse of the poem he made up

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Clohesy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Jermiah Darcy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   51

   Address

   Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary

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   There was men in our district in days long ago and they were able to make poems . Their names were Tom Fahey and Mick Gleeson they lived in Castlehill. When they died they were eighty years of age . I don't know where they were buried. There

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