School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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- (continued from previous page)poem which was written about the above school by Thomas Ryan ("The Drangan Boy").
- I
Real scenes of life before me now
Are shifting one by one
Each actor plays his part and
goes
But, when each act is done
Old memiries hover round me
And I'm a boy again
On fancy's wings I'm borne to
The old house in the glen.
II
Oh! sweet the retrospection of
The happy days of yore
When by the crystal streamlet
played
That ripples past the door
With Johnny, James and Mary Anne
A bright ey'd colleen then
Oh how we wished the fairies
took(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mr Hall
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Kyle, Co. Tipperary