School: Cluainín (roll number 13231)
- Location:
- Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 120
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“T'was night in the village and cloudless the sky, the stars' on their luster were sparkling on high”
(continued from previous page)flushed and white.
Discussing the loss to the village that night.
Discussing the loss to that village O me.
A loss to our country what else could it be.
When for ever the land of our birth
Compelled by oppression to wander the earth
The fairest, the greenest, her gander, her youth.
Her children, her life blood. O God is the truth.
Go forth in exile from country and kin as if in old Erin to live was a sin.IV
‘Twas one of those scenes I witnessed that night.
And if it were mine the sad story to write.
I languages inspiring these words I could tell.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullowcossaun, Co. Tipperary
- Collector
- Michael Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Kilnagranagh, Co. Tipperary