School: Bealach, Bansha (roll number 1131)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: S. Meiscill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)either to read or take a loan and as he was an omnivorous reader very few important contemporary works were unknown to him. The fruits of this gleaning is quite evident especially in those of his mature years.At the suggestion of Father Matthew, a personal friend of the family, and a keen admirer of the poet, Darby was sent to a French Seminary but his studies there were interrupted by the unexpected demise of an elder brother and whose place on the farm, he was recalled to fill.And so was the Poet deflected from his projected spiritual career and cast back into the welter of worldly affairs and Irish political agitation. Naturally the family bereavment occasioned a lull in Darby's poetic activities but in due course the pent stream, in response to the call of the times, burst forth anew, stronger and(continues on next page)
