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School: Bealach, Bansha (roll number 1131)

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Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
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S. Meiscill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 269

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  1. Darby Ryan - The Bansha Poet

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    Diarmiad O'Riain or Darby as he was usually styled was born about 1770 at Ashgrove 3 miles S.W. of the picturesque village of Bansha at the eastern end of the famous Glen of Aherlow.
    Darby was the younger son of a well-to-do farmer but it would seem that wooing the "Muse" appealed more potently to him than the prosaic paternal avocation. Darby's early education was of the usual contemporary "Hedge School" "Sub Rosa" type but so insatiable was his thirst for knowledge that distance presented no difficulty when it was a matter of securing or exchanging a desired work.
    To the spacious libraries of Bansha Castle and Father Matthew of Thomastown he was always heartily welcome
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