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1. Ardagh, County Mayo (continued)

   

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   For years they have toiled in the land of the stranger
   Their hearts always set on their own native home
   And longed for the day when again they’d return
   And oft cursed the tyrant who forced to roam.

   (5)
   We thought that the dark days of sorrow were over,
   That these pitiless evictions we’d ne’er see again,
   Men of Ardagh, remember these heartless evictions,
   Willie Hynes, Jimmy Sweeney, Con Healy and Browne.

   (6)
   When Gardiner and Pringle prosecuted the people,
   Protected by peelers in county and town,
   To day worse than ever the sherrif is busy,
   And the bailiff at work is turning them down,
   And to-day she’s embalmed in Killala’s green church yard,
   And sleeps in her grave neath a cold bed of moss,
   And no worth of praise shall be spoken about her,
   For no one shall weep or mourn her loss.

   (8)
   The grabber is prowling about in the village
   Awaiting the chance of his neighbours downfall,
   Beware of these despots, despise, them and shun them,
   Let us fight to a finish with our backs to the wall

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. filíocht
         1. filíocht na ndaoine (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   T. Ginty

   Address

   Ardach, Co. Mhaigh Eo