My father from West Lahern Used to sing the valley of Knockanure he was IRA All the way He was born in The 1890 I think He died when I was 8 He was a lovely. singer he went to England to work He was a Taylor so I think the Work outside in the Bad weather made him sick I never saw him with a heavy coat but I only saw him when he came home in the Summer It wfas a hard life when he lived to work in England He came home and never went back to England. Soon he died He had ulcer I think he wouldn’t let us be born in England we were born in Kerry
