{"id":105,"date":"2013-06-19T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2014-08-09T11:43:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T11:43:37","slug":"he-lost-her-that-he-desired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/he-lost-her-that-he-desired\/","title":{"rendered":"He Lost Her That He Desired"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130815142834im_\/http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Helen-Kiernans-Wedding.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Collins love for Kitty Kiernan is well known, as played by Julia Roberts in the film, Kitty was but the second of the Kiernan girls Michael Collins fell in love with, losing the first, Helen, to a young solicitor Paul McGovern\u2026\" width=\"730\" height=\"266\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Collins love for Kitty Kiernan is well known, as played by Julia Roberts in the film, Kitty was but the second of the Kiernan girls Michael Collins fell in love with, losing the first, Helen, to a young solicitor Paul McGovern\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">He lost her, that he desired,<br \/>\nA love that was not to be,<br \/>\nHer\u2026 she married another,<br \/>\nThat she loved more, though she loved he.<br \/>\nThe night before her wedding,<br \/>\nTo elope with her he did plead,<br \/>\nBut she loved McGovern more than he<br \/>\nAnd she would not do the deed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">It broke his heart, her wedding,<br \/>\nHandkerchief shredded in his hand<br \/>\nWhen for the speeches, toasts and photographs<br \/>\nAt her wedding he had to stand..<br \/>\nIn time he woo\u2019ed her sister,<br \/>\nOnly to be thwarted by fate<br \/>\nCivil war, a bullet to the chest<br \/>\nMartyr for the Free State.<\/p>\n<address style=\"color: #000000;\">Ref:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130815142834\/http:\/\/kiernanfamily.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/29\/helen-kiernans-wedding\/\">http:\/\/kiernanfamily.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/29\/helen-kiernans-wedding<\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He lost her, that he desired, A love that was not to be, Her\u2026 she married another, That she loved more, though she loved he. The night before her wedding, To elope with her he did plead, But she loved McGovern more than he And she would not do the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,178,37,23],"tags":[188,191,192,116,185,186,183,190,180,181,187,193,189,179,184,182],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-civil-war","category-irish-romances","category-irish-war-of-independence-1919-1921","category-north-longford","tag-county-longford","tag-death-of-michael-collins","tag-general-michael-collins","tag-granard","tag-harry-boland","tag-hrry-boland-love-triangle","tag-in-great-haste","tag-irish-civil-war-2","tag-kitty-kiernan","tag-kitty-kiernan-love-story","tag-kitty-kiernan-love-triangle","tag-life-of-michael-colins","tag-longford-poetry","tag-michael-collins","tag-michael-collins-love-story","tag-the-longford-connection","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3214,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ambush-at-dooney-rock\/","url_meta":{"origin":105,"position":0},"title":"Ambush At Dooney Rock","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"When we come at the end of time, To Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, - \"The Fiddler of Dooney\" (W.B. 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