School: Tunnyduff
- Location:
- Tonyduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cathaláin
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- (continued from previous page)To take a glass is now alas, the greatest crime of all;
Since Balfour placed this hungry beast a sergeant at Grousehall.
Down into hell, he would run pell-mell in search of poteen there;
And won't be loath to swear an oath it was found in Killenkere.
He would search your bed from foot to head take blankets sheets and all,
Your wife undressed must leave her nest for Jemmy of Gousehall.
The priests cannot be one Sunday free their Mass to celebrate,
It is there he will kneel well cased in steel prepared for duties call.
For to assail and drag to jail
our Clergy from Grousehall.
Thank God the day is not far away,
When freedom will be seen,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghettiagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- P. Reilly
- Address
- Greaghettiagh, Co. Cavan