Rowlock Rhymes – ‘The Piper and the Fairies’

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Typed words to - 'The Piper and the Fairies' (added title - 'The Farther in the Deeper'). Uses local dialect. Mentions Causeway Fair. Page from loose manuscript of Rowlock Rhymes and Songs of Exile- a book of verse edited by Sam Henry. The author, Robert McMullan from Portballintrae, had the pen name 'North Antrim' and was "imbued with the Celtic spirit" and interested in the fishermen of the north coast of Antrim