School: Inch, Borris

Location:
Clanagh, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Michael J. O'Donoghue
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0903, Page 616

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0903, Page 616

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  3. XML “Clashganny's Verdant Vale”
  4. XML “Song”

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  2. Song

    And there's not in Innis Tail a more beauteous spot that we have got in Clashganny's flowery Vale

    The following song was composed by her about 1920 or 1921
    Britania boasts her Union Jack
    Waves o'er poor Ireland still
    But she may charge her guns and shoot her sons
    But cannot break their will
    And execute her noble youth
    As Cromwell did of old
    But we'll stand beside our banner, boys,
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