| Show LAST MINSTREL OF IRELAND I 1 thomas themas smith aged wandering singer and story teller died re le county meath an aged uan wandering dering singer and story piety teller who was wag said to be a descendant of one famed in me days clays or 0 minstrelsy died recently in id the hie hospital in county meath ireland ile he was the last of the old school or of so called poets who lived by story telling end and verge making ot at farm house fireside resides fi s itla ills name nama was thomas sm it i and accord lue to report one of hla his ancestors wore cay and bells and served as a jester to a prince lit in his hia boyhood smith wore a faded doublet of alternating stripes of dellovo and blue which bad been handed down to him as a relic of his great grand daduya daddys fanio famo as a countryside funmaker ilig hla stories tor for tie most part had bad to do with the fairies and always presented tho the good fairy in the tha part ot of straightened tangles and easing the path of happy marriage his visits throughout tho the country were made with scheduled regularity and an evening with tho the poet was tho the occasion for a gathering gath erins of young follis folks like most poets ho he was not thrifty and died poor |
