A Migrant From Sliabh Luachra

He is from the place of the silver back crow And the hills where the gorse, heather and bracken grow On land too rough and high for the plough around every stone Near Rathmore in east Kerry by the Paps of Shrone. He migrated to Victoria in nineteen sixty one His oldest grand-daughter has a two year old son His wife is an Aussie and their children and she The Sliabh Luachra countryside has yet for to see. But his Sliabh Luachra accent he does retain Till the moment he dies with him it will remain Almost fifty years in Australia that is going back in time Since he left his old Homeplace in his life's budding prime. You ask him does he miss Sliabh Luachra and to you he will say I think of it often though not every day But I love Australia of that I won't lie And here I am happy to live and to die.