<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563603" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Memories Of The Irish Travellers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The travellers parked their horse drawn vans at the Shannaknock cross when I was a young boy<br>And recalling such good memories is a thing I still enjoy<br>And though their colorful Romany caravans are no longer to be seen<br>Good memories last a life time and we recall what has been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I loved their colorful pinto horses with white patches through the brown<br>On March the first they bought and sold them at the horse fair in Millstreet Town<br>In the early sixties the increase on automobile traffic brought an end to the horse drawn van<br>And jeeps and motor vans became the transport of the born to wander clan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the cross road around their camp fire on a starry Winter's night<br>They played their tunes and sung their songs under the pale moonlight<br>And something lost forever that won't be found again<br>And only the fond memories of the past now does remain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of Ireland in the fifties and the early sixties long before I reached my prime<br>When the travellers travelled in their horse drawn vans that is going back in time<br>They added so much colour to the green old countryside<br>As the byroads of the County they travelled far and wide.</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=563603" data-title="Memories Of The Irish Travellers de Francis Duggan" data-description="The travellers parked their horse drawn vans at the Shannaknock cross when I was a young boy And recalling such good memories is a thing I still enjoy And though their colorful Romany caravans are no longer to be seen Good memories last a life tim..."></div> </div> </div>

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