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Ballads of Ballytumulty, by
Samuel S. McCurry ~ The Battle of Baltinglass by
Lawrence Earl ~ Brave Crack
Old Belfast Ghost Stories by Joe
Baker ~ Poet of the People, Thomas Carnduff ~
The Honest Ulsterman, Stewart Parker
The Marquis of Ormonde ~
Irish Bulls and Puns ~ Faces of May Day
Holywood 1983 ~ Poems of a Parachute Padre
Queen's University of Belfast
Graduation Ceremony ~ The Romish Controversy ~
Saintfield Heritage Number One
Saintfield Heritage Number Two ~ My
Sword for Patrick Sarsfield, Randal McDonnell
Ulster and the Irish Republic, William A. Carson ~
Northern Ireland Scrapbook ~
Ulster for you Holidays 1930
Page One
B.M.D.s
  
 
a few select pages from:
Ballads of Ballytumulty, by Samuel S. McCurry
To the Memory of my Dear Father, to whose influence most of this little Book
is due.
Contents
   
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1) "Agnes" Och, sore
is my heart for the day that is gone, For the day that I'll niver see
more, When I lived a wee lad, an' knowed nothin' o' bad, In the moss
jist beside the Lough shore, Ay, ay! Near oul' Ballytumulty shore.
Do you listen that win' thro' the crack in the doer, An' the sugh in the
beeches out by? Well, you'd hardly believe how the soun' makes me
grieve; In troth I cud sit down an' cry, I cud - Sit down on a creepy
an' cry.
For the voice of wee Agnes, I hear it that plain, Wee Agnes,
light-hearted an' free, I mind she come here in the spring o' the year,
When she wuzn't the height o' your knee, Yis, yis! No more nor the
height o' your knee.
(CLICK images (1) above to read the rest)
2) "August Fourth, Nineteen Fourteen" Up boys of
Ballytumulty, The loyal and the true, The eyes of all your countrymen
are proudly fixed on you. (CLICK images
(2) above to read the rest)
3) "Sergeant Michael O'Leary, V.C." Have you read of Mike
O'Leary, Of the gallant Irish Guards? Sure his raid upon the Germans,
stirs the blood of Irish bards; Through the world his fame is ringin'
And his feat of arms they're singin' Where the shamrock green is
springin' From Macroom to Newtownards. (CLICK
images (3) above to read the rest)
4) "Kitty" There's Kitty away for the cows, Dressed out in her
snowy white blouse, But I mustn't, I mustn't go with her, she vows, Or
hear the wee song that she sings - That silly wee song that she sings,
About sojers, and sailors, and things, Her own love, her true love, And
what she wud do, love, If fitted with feathers and wings! (CLICK
images (4) above to read the rest)
 
  
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1) "Robby" I mind the day
wee Robby died, He fell asleep jist on my knee, The neighbours gathered
in and cried, They felt so much for John and me. He was the first
the Lord was plased, to send us; O, the bliss, the joy, We cried "The
God of heaven be praised, Who give us sich a dear wee boy." (CLICK
images (1) above to read the rest)
2) "Farewell to Ballytumulty" Farewell to Ballytumulty, my own
wee native town, I'd give the shirt from aff my back, I'd give my last
half-crown, If I hadn't soon to lave ye, if I hadn't far to roam, An'
cross the windy ocean in the West to find a home. (CLICK
images (2) above to read the rest) ~
"Wee Lizzy" (part?) - In the lonely days of autumn, When the nights were
gettin' long, When the win' come thro' the keyhole, with a whistle clear
and strong. Paler grew our poor wee Lizzy, And the sunshine of her eyes,
Slowly faded, as the twilight, In the days of summer dies. (CLICK
images (2) above to read the rest)
3) "The Brothers" A Tale of the Ulster Division - Hear my story,
men, and wonder at a scene that ones befell, On a battle-field in
Flanders, place your memory knows so well; 'Tis no fiction false and
foolish, 'tis no fairy song I sing, But a tale of truth and valour in
the service of the King. (CLICK images
(3) above to read the rest)
    
a few pages from "The Battle of Baltinglass by
Lawrence Earl" 1952
Dr. H. B. C. Wallace
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1) From the ends of the earth came letters sounding moral support for Helen
Cooke's cause. Photo: Daily Herald
2) A determined Sheridan fastens the alarm hooter Photo: Keystone
3) a) Filling in the cable trench at Farrell's shop b) Who cut
the telephone-poles? Nobody knew Both Photos: Irish Press
4) At last, on the day of the dawn attack, police capture the concrete slab
before the Cooke Post Office Photo: Planet News
5) a) The battle has just begun, Deputy Cogan tells Cooke supporters
b) ... while young ladies of Baltinglass parade with mourning flags
Both Photos: Irish Press
6) Michael Farrell, Miss Cooke's rival, serves a customer at his father's
drapery counter. His mother watches Photo: Irish Press
7) Deputy Cogan, General Dennis, and publican Sheridan salute Helen Cooke's
final victory. Photo: Irish Press
     
a few pages from Joe Bakers 'Old Belfast
Ghost Stories (part one)
      
a few pages from "Brave Crack!" An anthology of Ulster
Wit and Humour
What is it? Some Ulster Riddles, and the answers ;)
  
  
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1) Poet of the People, Thomas Carnduff 1886 - 1956
2) The Honest Ulsterman, Stewart Parker 1941 - 1988
Playing for Ireland
3) The Manuscripts of The Marquis of Ormonde, The
Earl of Fingall, The Corporations of Waterford, Galway, etc. 1885
      
Irish Bulls and Puns, The Dublin Book Shop
Faces of May Day Holywood 1983 Taggart Aston
Photography
       
Poems of a Parachute Padre - Captain Rev. J. W.
Johnston, C.F.
       
      
       
       
      
Queen's University of Belfast Graduation Ceremony
in the Assembly Hall, Fisherwick Place
10th July 1940  
  
  
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1) The Romish Controversy by
Charles Stuart Stanford, D.D. 1860
2) Saintfield Heritage Number One
3) Saintfield Heritage Number Two
  
  
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1) My Sword for Patrick Sarsfield, Randal McDonnell -
2) Ulster and the Irish Republic, William A. Carson
3) Northern Ireland Scrapbook
       
Ulster for you Holidays 1930
      
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