School: Dunree
- Location:
- Dunreagh, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Condún
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- (continued from previous page)over a hundred poems and very nice, good poems they are too, they were all written when James Kearns was around fifty years.
This is an example of his work.
"When through the
yard came screaming
fowl,
The dog set up a dismayed
howl,
Said Fowler "That's a for
On prowl they are a
dreadful pest"!
The milch cow broke
her chair and fled
The goldfinch in his
cage dropped dead,
The Fowler blessed him-
self and said "I never saw
the like."
When looking down across
the wall,
He saw the whole cause
of it all,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Dympna Condon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cookstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Maureen Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath