School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Béal Átha hÉis, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 297
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- (continued from previous page)His life as a drudge he spends
He has no thoughts for King nor Thrones
Nor for Parasites and Peers
He's a mass of withered skin and bones
Who is bent with toil and years
The poorhouse van will hurry him off
To die in a poorhouse ward
He writhes with a weak consumptive cough
Till death snaps the living Chord
' Am and Irishman and it makes me proud
Though I had to tramp and beg
It's against the law, it is not allowed
But Scotland's not Raheg.
Got from
Mr Denis Brady
Raheg
BallyhaiseTownland of Rageg 1/2 mile from BallyhaiseMs Denis Brady Raheg Ballyhaise. Townland of Raheg 1/2 mile from Ballyhaise
- Poem
Down came the wedding party gleefully
Down by the shop where they bought all their needs as you will see
Whiskey and porter by the bottle and barrell
Pork, sausages, hams and bacon
Till poor Tim had to tell them he could give them no more
On to Teapot Row they flew
Careless and heedless of mishaps and accidents too
On past the smokey little houses(continues on next page) - Collector
- Owen Alf O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
