School: Ardlow
- Location:
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Síomain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1004, Page 090
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“The following verses were written about the year 1824...”
(continued from previous page)She blushed like refulgent Arora,
Composing fair seamrog so green.Dejected in grief she stood waiting
I listened awhile to her song;
He words they were true and prevailing
She complained of a merciless wrong.
She said Luther was the instigation
Of hatred, malignant and spleen
And that reprobate vile Reformation
Degraded the Shamrock so green.My ill-fated country I mourn
I feel for her wrongs and her woes
With wrath I incessantly burn
When I view the triumph of her foes.
Justice, oh, why dost thou slumber?
Why tyrants oppress us so keen
Weighty are the chains that encumber
The friends of the seamrog so greenPoor Catholics for their profession
From under a burdensome yoke
Crushed down by the weight of oppression
Combined and designed to provoke.
Our humble petitions are slighted
By tyrants morose and obscene(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Fitzsimmons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Michael Meenagh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 64
- Address
- Ballintlieve, Co. Meath