School: Droim Seanbhó Thuaidh
- Location:
- Drumshanbo North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1127, Page 100
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- (continued from previous page)Again astonished & amazed
Upon their (?) lines I gazed
My feelings I did scrutinise
To see could I believe my eyes.(IV)
I thought, perhaps, that I might be
Deluded thus by energy
Or some shy maiden much the same
As what they call "McKenna's drame"
But quite contrary to my wish
The strong were there the weak to crush
With rifle & buckshot supplied
Which they received with brutish pride.(V)
To carry out the bloody game
Of making law-transgressions tame
'Twas after a long & silent pause
I asked a man what was the cause
Of this commotion & display
Or would it be a battle-day.(VI)
The answer you may understand
"We're occupiers of the land
And on this day alas!" quoth he
"Served with ejectment we will be
To have us from our homes expelled
Where hitherto our fathers dwelled
And where in infancy we were
The objects of parental care"(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Duignan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltycreevagh, Co. Longford
