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I fear lie has been murdered in the fair of Turlough-more."
Come, all you tender Christians, I hope you will draw
near; It's of this dreadful murder I mean to let you hear, Concerning those poor people whose loss we do deplore (The Lord have mercy on their souls) that died at
Turloughmore.
It is on the First of August, the truth I will declare, Those people they assembled that day all at the fair; But little was their notion what evil was in store, All by the bloody Peelers at the fair of Turloughmore.
Were you to see that dreadful sight 'twould grieve your heart, I know,
To see the comely women and the men all lying low;
God help their tender parents, they will never see them more,
For cruel was their murder at the fair of TurloughÂmore.
took to recount, is a common characteristic of the Anglo-Irish songs of the people. The circumstance on which it is founded took place in 1843, at tne fa'r °^ Darrynacloughery, held at Turloughmore. A faction fight having occurred at the fair, the arrest of some of the parties led to an attack on the police; after the attack had abated or ceased, the police fired on the people, wounded several, and killed the three men whose names stand at the head of the ballad. They were indicted for murder, and pleaded the order of Mr. Brew, the stipendiary magistrate, which was admitted as justification. Brew died before the day appointed for his trial.—Note by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, " Ballad Poetry of Ireland" |
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