School: Killeeter
- Location:
- Killeter, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ní Ghríobhtha
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- I
My curse on Dublin Castle has sounded its death knell.
Another bold "Sinn Feiner is murdered in his cell.
On the 25th of September in nineteen seventeen
Young Thomas Ashe was done to death by cruel Maxwell Green.
II
Why did you die young Thomas Ashe
Till your object you would obtain
Until you would see poor Ireland
An nation once again
But England's cruel tyrants with their secret service cash -
They bribed the bloody jailers till they murdered Thomas Ashe.
III
He died a noble martyr at the age of thirty three.
The finest - type of manhood was from Dingle to Tralee.
He was a national Teacher(continues on next page)