School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)
- Location:
- Adamstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Donnchadh Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 266
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- (continued from previous page)And kiss the clay where rests to-day
Our forefathers' rebel bonesCome raise up monuments to those,
Who ne'er were known to yeild,
Who beat the foes and threshed the Yoes.
On many a bloody field.
Let Father John Murphy be in bronze,
So he can be easily seen.
With the noble Bagnel Harvey,
And Mat Furlong from Raheen.In the Bullring of old Wexford town,
Let this monument be built.
For here some hundred years ago,
Some tons of blood were spilt.
The rotten Yorks and north Corks,
In the bullring met their fate
By the hands and Pikes of the Pats and Mikes
The men of Ninety eight
