Livin’ in Drumlister: The Collected Ballads and Verses of W. F. Marshall, `The Bard of Tyrone’.
Author: MARSHALL, W. F.
Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2002 (reprint). 126 pages. Paperback.
Included are poems entitled: Ceilidth, The Fairy Hill, Dunmullan, Shane Mill, Me An’ Me Da, A Faerie Land, On Tullyneil, Cushendall, Dungannon Royal School 1914-1918, Dervaghroy, Tyrone Jigs, The Drumnakilly Divil, Ballintrain, etc. Many of the poems are written in the local Ulster dialect.
I’m livin’ in Drumlister,
An’ I’m getting’ very oul’,
I have to wear an Indian bag
To save me from the coul’.
The deil a man in this townlan’
Wos claner raired nor me,
But I’m livin’ in Drumlister
In clabber to the knee.
(from `Me An’ Me Da’).
ISBN: 0856402931
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