School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
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“It was with quiet other people the vagabonds communed...”
It was with quiet other people the vagabonds communed the wandering ballad singer with his wallet of songs slung at his ragged haunch. The travelling musician whose blotchy fiddle could sneeze out the tin strange tunes he had learned from his father & from his father's generations before him. The little band travelling the world carrying saplings and rushes from the stream which, they wove cunningly into tables and chairs warranted not to last too long. The folk who sold rootless ferns to people from whose window ledges they had previously stolen the pots to plant them in. The men who went roaring along the roads driving the cattle before them from fair to market and back again. The hairy(continues on next page)- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Ging
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo