School: Moynalty (B.)
- Location:
- Moynalty, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Uillford Ó Maoilmhichil
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- XML “The Tax-Gatherer's Visit”
- XML “The Farmer's Lament for a Broken Pipe”
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- (continued from previous page)Much like the neck of an old speechless fiddle.
His crooked mouth reached to his ear one side,
And to his deep mouth two double chins were tied;
These hanging lips embraced the sun and wind,
But never felt the embrace of a woman kind.
Oh, no, the gripping, tax-collecting pest,
Love has no place in his ungrateful breast,
Except a sordid passion to obtain
Low murky Mammon and ill-gotten gain.
At last he died and when the knave was dead
The book of rates was placed beneath his head" - "It grieves me much, dear pipe, to see that you broke;
I mourn your loss in the absence of your smoke;
I mourn your loss and your untimely end-(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moynalty, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr P. Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moynalty, Co. Meath