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Full Title	Ambition in Cuffe Street
Author	O'Sullivan, Seamus, 1879-1958.
Contributor	Yeats, Jack Butler, 1871-1957 (Illustrator)
Date Added	8 January 2014
Language	English
Publish Date	1909-10
Publisher	Dundrum : Cuala Press.
Source	Cuala Press Broadside Collection
Topic	Ambition in Cuffe Street (Poem) Miss Sheridan's coffee (Poem) Bars (Drinking establishments) > Social aspects > Poetry. Coffee > Poetry. Crowds > Images.
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OCR NO. 5. SECOND YEAR A BROAIISIIIE FOR OCTOBER, I909 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY E. C. YEATS AT THE CUALA PRESS, CHURCHTOWN, DUNDRUM, COUNTY DUBLIN. SUBSCRIPTION TWELVE SHILLINGS A YEAR POST FREE. 30o copies only. AMBITION IN CUFFE STREET When I grow big I’l1 smoke and swear And drink like my old fellow there. I’ll smoke till all the air is thick, I’ll drink five pints and not feel sick. I’ll use bad language to my fill . . I will . . On a high stool for hours I’ll sit, Or lean against the door and spit. I’ll drain each pint to the last sup And tell the man to hurry up, Till I have had five tankards, yes, No less. I'll talk with Jemmy Connolly, (He’ll have grown old and fat like me) We’ll talk of women and everything And then, perhaps, we’ll start to sing. We’ll start to sing, and fight, and shout, ’Twil1 take three men to chuck us out . . By God, the things that I could do . . . Whew-w-w . . Seumas O’Sullivan.