School: Gort na Carraige (Rockfield) (roll number 9009)
- Location:
- Knocknashangan, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhagáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1029, Page 232
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A Song or a Rhyme (continued)
“Room, Room, give me room,”
(continued from previous page)And I’ll send him to the devil,
To mix with his Christmas pie.
In addition, if you don’t believe the words I say,
Enter Prince George himself and he’ll soon
clear the way.Prince George walks in. He is dressed in the uniform of the Kings Guard (which was got from a man who served in the Kings Guards) with a paper crown checked with sham jewels. He wears a sword at his side. He says.
Here comes I Prince George,
From England I have lately sprung,
Some of my noble deeds and ballads to begin,
For seven long years in a closed cage kept,
From that unto a prison leapt,
From that unto a rock of stones,
Where I sat and made some grievous moans.
I freed poor simples from the stake,
Which no other mortal man could undertake.
I wrung the fiery dragon through and through.
And many a noble heart I did subdue
England’s right and Ireland's wrong
And here I draw my bloody weapon (he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Keegan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Templenew, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Patrick Fannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 22
- Address
- Lios an Chollaigh, Co. Dhún na nGall