The whisky was finished, and on the following Sunday Father Maher united Paddy Fret and Katty Tyrrell, in the little chapel of Croagh. Mrs. Galvin danced bravely at the wedding, and was heard, more than once, to whisper that “only for her ’twould never be a match.”
John Francis O’Donnell (1837–1874).
“‘THAT’S THE TRUTH,’ SAYS O’SHANAHAN DHU.”
O’SHANAHAN DHU.
O’Shanahan Dhu, you’re a rover, and you’ll never be better, I fear,
A rogue, a deludherin’ lover, with a girl for each day in the year;
Don’t you know how the mothers go frowning, when a village you wander athrough,
For the priest you’d not seek were you drowning—
“That’s the truth,” says O’Shanahan Dhu,