School: Tisaran
- Location:
- Moystown Demesne, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: M. Ní Éireamhóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 027
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- (continued from previous page)and landed in Tullamore Jail.
And clapped into their weary cells their sorrow to bewail.
So they marched them back from Tullamore right down through Mallane
And they gave three cheers for liberty in the little town of Ferbane
chorus With riffle gun, and blunder buss they laid him in his gore.
So here's a health to those two heroes now and for evermore.
3. If you were to see the old R.IC. flying from stage to stage.
Expecting every moment to get a prey(?) for Cage.
But they were disappointed by what they took in hand.
He thought to banish all the tenants from their native land.
chorus With riffle gun, and blunder buss they laid him in his gore.
So here's a health to those two heroes now and for evermore.
4. So after three assizes those young men were set free
So up stodd brave Gunning and and gave a great(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eilis Ní Uait
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Creggan, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Martin Melaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glebe, Co. Offaly
