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1. A Ballad of 1888

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   During the days of the Land League when the Irish Parliamentary Party were agitating at home and in the English Parliament, for fair rents for the Irish tenants or for Land Purchase an election was held in 1888 in the Leitrim-Sligo. The candidates of the "Party" were Mr. Jasper Tully, and Mr. Mac Hugh the Mayor of Sligo. The following ballad related of a meeting, held at Drumkeeran, in support of these two candidates which was attended by great crowds of North Leitrim people and which aroused great enthusiasm at that time.

   Attend you gallant Irishman, unto these
   lines penned down,
   Concerning a great meeting, held in
   Drumkeeran town,
   It was a grand and glorious sight
   on the twenty fourth of May
   And twenty thousand Irish hearts
   assembled there that day.
   From the bridge of Manorhamilton,

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Rosaleen Rooney

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr James Slevin

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   65

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Muine Choill, Co. Liatroma