School: Coronea, Arva

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   might move into a house and be evicted that night by the landlords if they did not want to pay a high sum of money.
   Here is a poem I heard.
   Ill fares the land,
   to hastning ills a prey,
   Where wealth accumalates,
   And men Decay,
   Princes and lords may flourish,
   Or may fade,
   A breath can make them,
   As a breath hath made,
   but a bold peasantry,
   Their country's pride,
   When once destroyed,
   Can never be supplied.

   We were often sitting a the fire at home and daddy would start telling us stories that he heard from his grandfather. One night he told us how grandfather came to get the land and house

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nonie Mac Shane

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cornafean, Co. Cavan