School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)

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   of a shop assistant. He joined as a private in the Great War in 1914 and was killed in France 1917. He wrote many poems such as "Bound to the Mast" and the "Blackbird".

   Our present day poet is John Gallagher Slane who was also educated in our school who is very fond of writing about fairies the best one is the "Fairies on the Hill".

   Another poet was Mr Thomas Weldon of Bawn Hill Slane. The best of these was "Fare ye well sweet Hill of Slane" written in America. He was also killed in a railway accident in America. This poem appeared in the Drogheda Independant to same week that he was killed. The following is the poem he wrote

   
   God be with you Hill of Slane

   Where Ive played many a childish game

   Where holy Patrick's fire had burned

   And Pagans into Christian turned

   The same old hill you are today

   As when St Patrick came that way

   Tho' far from you across the main

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Alice Coyle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Hill of Slane, Co. Meath