School: Drong
- Location:
- Drong, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Mrs. Mc Brady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 280
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- The following song was written by a celebrated poet named Philip B. Fay, who was born in the townland of Bunnoe about the year 1867. At the age of sixteen he became apprenticed to a shoemaker, and from that time until 1893 when he emigrated to America, he earned his living by this trade. It was while in Butte Montana U.S.A. when his heart was filled with longing for his native Bunnoe that he suddenly received the gift of poetry and poured forth in verse the love he bore to Bunnoe.
Song
"The Hills of Sweet Bunnoe"
'Tis here among the mountains where the snows forever shine;
The lofty mountains freedom love and freedom's choice is mine.
I sigh not for a Southern clime where tropic roses blow;
Give me yon green-clad hills sublime the hills of Sweet Bunnoe
(2)
Here, many a crystal streamlet(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Ellen Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Bernard Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drong, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Philip B. Fay
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bun Abha, Co. an Chabháin
