School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 210
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- (continued from previous page)A pair of sparkling Irish eyes, like dew drops in the morn.
A pair of ruby laughing lips, two rows of pearls adorn.
Two rosy cheeks, a dimpled chin, a slender waist that's all.
The rest was all enshrouded in a little Irish shawl.
You may talk of Madam Patti, and of Sarah Bernhart.
And all the human thrushes, of the vocalising art.
The sweetest notes I ever heard came from that colleen deas.
As she gently urged the donkey with "gee up you lazy ass".(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John C. Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Port na Bláiche, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- M. Mullen
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Bréachmhaigh, Co. Dhún na nGall
