School: Teampoll Tuaithe, Teampoll Mór (B.) (roll number 16250)

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1. Dinnie Lacey

   

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   Composed by Martin Ryan , Templetuohy
   Age 49

   Where Sean O Dwyer and Desmond fought
   Had baffled all their foes ,
   Where Sullivan a shelter sought ,
   When loaded down with woes.
   Where Keating preached , and taught and wrote,
   In the ancient Gaelic tongue
   Where rath and ruin and verdant moat
   Far o'er it bosom flung .

   'Tis Aherlow's wild glen and yet it shelters not a few,
   Of those who scorned bribr and thret
   And to their land held true ;
   Mulcahy's soldiers tracked then therein;
   Once more, the lonely Glen
   Re-echoes to the rifles peal
   And cries of dying men .

   Too long , too well , brace Lacy fought
   And bursting through outside ,
   With empty guns clutched in his hand ,
   The Gallant soldier died.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Martin Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   49

   Address

   Templetouhy, Co. Tipperary