School: Coolfore (roll number 10700)
- Location:
- Cúil Fobhair, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: P. Ó Cuanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 349
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- (continued from previous page)How is Johnny Dally or does he deal in hogs,
And likewise Barney Callan, or does he rule the bogs.
- The manhood's gone and few returning
They left their homesteads in bleak despair
Their aged parents starving and daily mourning
With nothing left them, bu the open airAs I moved along to view the landscape
No cheer or laughter came from vale or glen
The only sound that did break the stillness
Was the ring of crowbars from the Sheriff's men.As I moved on further through desolation
The bleak walls of cabins were all met my eye(continues on next page)
