School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)
- Location:
- Baile an Oileáin, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 624
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A Song (continued)
“The tramp of the trooper is heard at Macroom”
(continued from previous page)The war-cry is louder of men in array.
IV
The danger is come and the fortune of war
Inclines on the side of oppression once more:
The people are brave but they fall,
And the star of their destiny sets in the darkness of yore.
V
MacEgan, a prelate like Ambrose of old,
Forsakes not his flock when the spoiler is near.
The post of the pastor's in front of the fold
When the wolf's in the plain, and there's rapine to fear.
VI
MacEgan survives 'mid the Philistine hordes;
'Mid the Lords of the Pale and his death is decreed;
But the sentence is stayed by the Lord Broghill's command,
And the prisoner is dragged to his presence with speed.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eugene Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Léim na Gaibhle, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- John Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Léim na Gaibhle, Co. Chiarraí