School: Mullagh (B)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: James Drury
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- (continued from previous page)And sadly turned from scenes of pride.
To you my lovely island home.
VI
Oh may your skies be ever clear.
Your harvest fields be filled with grain.
And may we live till we can hear.
No weary clanking of your chain.
May love and truth your sons unite.
And peace dispel the festering ills.
That made a long, long weary night
Still loom above my native Hills. This poem was written about the year 1872 by Mr Bernard Nulty.
Nulty was a baker in Mullagh and emigrated to America about 1870. He sent the above poem to some of his friends in 1872.- Collector
- J. Drury
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Mr John M. Gilsenan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Billywood, Co. Meath