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Location: Carlow East
Pat adopts the persona of the emigrant, nostalgic for the places where he grew.

Mickey voices the nostalgia of the emigrant who dreams of returning home to the native place and to friends.

Location: Carlow north, Clonmore
Eddie pays tribute to his native valley, its scenery and long history

Location: Carlow south
Fr. McCarthy remembers the pleasant sites of south Carlow, as well as some anger at the centuries of oppression

Location: Carlow county
The poem celebrates the achievements of the Carlow hurling team of 1960

Seamus fondly remembers the village where he grew as well as practices from a lost way of life.

Location: North Carlow, Clonmore
John remembers the place of his youth and its history

Lyrics:

The seed in the soil creeps up to the light
Seeking new life in Springtime cold;
The slow beat of life shows green, shows white,
Growing new buds in flower and grove.

The flower, bud and leaf then burst into life,
Pulsing with sap…

For two hundred years its stood,
Among the Wicklow hills,
The source of people's hopes,
The cure for many ills.
It was built by Fr Blanchfield,
With faith and a hundred pound,
And it is fitting that there he rests,
Inside the church he…