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A Citizen Peasant Answers a Question of a Man of Graces

by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

If ever you want to wind up an Irishman like me, dress up in full riding gear and refer to yourself and you chums as "gentry". The following poem, while not Shakespeare, retells a story from Tyrellspass in Westmeath beside me where one poor tourist made the mistake...

 

 

 

Can you tell me, sir, a man passing did say
To a citizen of Ireland at his gate one day
When the ...

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Wednesday 10th November 2010 1:44 pm

irish   ireland   hunting   peasent   gentry   land war

Did a Spirit Knock On Rossbawns Walls

by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

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Did a Spirit Knock
On Rossbawn's Walls?
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The story is told that an agent was slain
By a tenant called Delaney who on the run did die
In caves upon Sliabh Blooms wild hills
Many many years gone by.
For sustenance he came down the hill
To his house, outside a window he eat till he was full
And should the Yeomanry or Constab...

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Monday 6th July 2009 11:21 pm

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