And just at the last she must needs sing 'Widow Miller,' and as usual Dr. Ross softly beat time and crooned an accompaniment: 'The sang o' the lark finds the widow asteer, The birr o' her wheel starts the night's dreamy ear, The tears o'er the tow-tap will whiles fa' like rain, Yet there's naebody hears Widow Miller complain.
"Lover or Friend"
Rosa Nouchette Carey
The tube is suspended between two massive castellated walls, which form an imposing feature on the lawn at birr Castle.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
Now, there were but eighteen boroughs unrestored; but King helps out the falsehood by inserting places-Thurles, Tipperary, Arklow, and birr-which never had members before or since, by creating a second town of Kells, by transferring St. Johnstown in Longford which returned members, to St. Johnstown in Donegal, which was a seat of war, and by other tricks equally discreditable to his honesty and intelligence.
"Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry"
Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston