School: Lios Dubh (roll number 6661)
- Location:
- Lisduff, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Artáin
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“Piece of poetry composed after a raffle which was held at Colberts...”
Piece of poetry composed after a raffle which was held at Colberts - a small house at the foot of the Moate. Harry Evans used to wear a long reddish beard. He was a tailor by trade and would vist from house to house according as he would get work"Be all the bogs shouted
Evans
I don't like what I see
Because I can't get a girl
To sit on me knee
Be the ? says Mary
They are all afraid
You want one damn badly
To tease your old beard
The poet was Denis Mullally
Of Crimlin now in South Africa
- Informant
- Ned Hingerty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Tipperary