School: Mulrankin
- Location:
- Mulrankin, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Broin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0877, Page 231
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- (continued from previous page)though wild the winds might blow.VI
In vain their wives and mothers and aged fathers pray;
In vain they cling around the men imploring them to stay;
For they minded not their praying and they heeded not their cries,
and they heeded not the storm that was gathering in the skies;
But out they rowed their little boats far from that fatal strand,
Then swift and sure came punishment from Gods avenging hand;
For soon it grew so dreadful dark their boats they scarce could see,
and then the storm surrounded them with dread intensity.VII
Darker grew the dismal night and bright the lightning flashed.
Louder rose the deafening winds and loud the thunder crashed
In vain the ill-starred fisher men pulled hard to reach the strand
For mountain waves and cyclone winds(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maire Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mulrankin, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Bridgetown, Co. Wexford
