School: Guaire (Xtian Bros.) (roll number 12772)
- Location:
- Gorey, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: S. Murphy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0891, Page 027
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Are better than books writ in gold
For never a line of the story
Can show where your grandsires grew pale
'Fore a foeman - come children draw closer
And I'll tell of the Boys of the Flail.Ah, well I remember the evening
We met in the green little wood
Our long pikes were seized by the soldiers
Yet proud though unarmed we stood
'Twas just on the eve of the battle-
And Ross should be taken that day
And never a sign of a waypon
Had we then to join in the fray
When one of the boys from Killala
I think it was Peter ONeill
Said Captain, I think we can manage
By aich of us briging a flail.Our Captain was foremost at thrashin'
For many a parish around
How the ripe grain would fly to the rafters when(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Kinsella
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bolacreen, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Kinsella
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bolacreen, Co. Wexford
