<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548507" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Christy Ring</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll tell you about a great hurler he hurled his way into renown<br>And his fame spread distant from Cork City through many a village and town<br>He inspired the poets to write of him and the song writers his praises did sing<br>And he was the hurler of all Seasons the one and only Christy Ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was born in the year nineteen twenty and he died in nineteen seventy nine<br>And he played from the thirties until the late sixties and as he aged he matured like good wine<br>He won eighteen Railway cup medals a record that will never be beat<br>Yet he was a down to earth fellow a man who was free of conceit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of him there has been many stories his imprint in hurling he made<br>As long as hurling is played he will be remembered for the many great games that he played<br>In Cork, Limerick, Thurles and Killarney and in Dublin in famed Croke Park<br>In his three marvellous decades of hurling the wizard from Cloyne left his mark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was a boy in the fifties Christy Ring in his mid thirties then<br>Yet still one of Ireland's best hurlers he helped Cork and Glen Rovers to many a win<br>He revelled in fierce competition and even in his forties played against the best<br>And he always worried his opponents the hurler who always impressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Cork and the Glen Rovers wizard his fame spread beyond Ireland's shore<br>his name will live as long as the game of hurling and that will be forever more<br>He inspired the poets to write of him and the song writers of him did sing<br>And he was the hurler of all Seasons the legendary Christy Ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548507" data-title="Christy Ring de Francis Duggan" data-description="I'll tell you about a great hurler he hurled his way into renown And his fame spread distant from Cork City through many a village and town He inspired the poets to write of him and the song writers his praises did sing And he was the hurler of al..."></div> </div> </div>

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