School: Dernakesh (B)
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Comhraidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 413
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- (continued from previous page)Good luck to them now
And safe may they land,
For the big ship is
Sailing to a far distant land.
- Edward Jackson now dead lived in Dernakesh and made some rhymes. He is dead about twenty years and got his education in Dernakesh School. Edward Jackson was an uncle of the present Michael Jackson Dernakesh. He made a song on Andy Magee's ass. It began thus.
Its of a thing that happened pof late between an ass and a mare foul Grevell's estate.
O pity, o pity the ass he would say.
My master is bad as you may plainly see.
My master is bad as you(continues on next page) - Informant
- Michael Jackson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
