You Could Meet A Person From Duhallow Poem by Francis Duggan

Some of them live in Canada, Britain and the U S A
And in Countries of Europe and even further away
From Duhallow by the Boggeraghs where they first saw light of day
In Africa, New Zealand and Australia where their last remains may lay
Whilst some of them in Duhallow in their own home places stay
The home fields are always greener as some are known to say
A person from Duhallow one could meet anywhere
In any town, village or city in the big World out there
The fields by the Blackwater some of them never more to see
In all of our ways and life choices we are as different as can be
You could meet a person from Duhallow in your travels anywhere
In any town, village or city in the big World out there
Far from the green old countryside where the Blackwater flow
Into old men and women in distant towns they grow.