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   “One evening last week into Ross I did go I came from the Hook and I passed by Coolroe”

   

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   About the year 1894, Guinness firm the principal buyer of barley in Ireland got in a lot of foreign barley for malting, this was ruinous to the Co. Wexford as barley was the principal cash crop the farmers raised. The price of barley fell from 15s/6d to 7s/= per barrel hence the following song was composed. Song One evening last week into Ross I did go I came from the Hook and I passed by Coolroe I met an old farmer named Maurkeen Kehoe Going to town with a sample of barley ii Passing Pat Sullivans at the cross of Dunmain We went into see Mary and have a small drain An old woman inside they called Johanna Kane She was arguing with Catherine Carley iii With sighing and sobbing you think she would choke Saying Johanna honey last year I was broke I went into town for to auction the yoke And the landlord came up to me snarling iv On the last fair of Ross, I was selling a foal To buy a new pair of buskens," provisions and coal He came up to my daughter and swore by his soul That he should gey the price of my barley v

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Ryan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Garryduff, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Mr Richard Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   70

   Address

   Garryduff, Co. Wexford