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1. Local Songs - The Coolvin Evictions

   

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   Of all the great evictions of which we've wrote and sang,
   There's none to surpass of which we've seen at Tang.
   Of all the tyrant landlords, you'l one and all give in,
   There's none to match Fred Russel the landlord of Coolvin.
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   With Sheriffs, bums, and bagmen. Fred the war did wage
   Upon poor old feeble creatures, full eighty years of age;
   And that arguing Landcock, at eviction ever ripe;
   A man of no humanity, with them with them a clutch in type
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   But our clergyman soon worked the plan, and quickly let them known;
   That no Handcock or Landcock, he would'nt let them crow.
   Eight gallant men stood by his side, were sent to Tullamore
   Long life to Fr. Carey, who nobly kept the

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Conlon

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Rathmore, Co. Longford

   Informant

   William Foxe

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Tang, Co. Westmeath