{"id":1366,"date":"2014-12-17T02:44:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T02:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2014-12-17T02:44:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T02:44:44","slug":"walking-past-adamnans-church-in-birr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/walking-past-adamnans-church-in-birr\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Past Adamnans Church in Birr"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Saint
Saint Brendans Church in Birr where Adamnan wrote “The Law of the Innocents”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Its just another ruined church to some, but St Brendans Old Church in Birr is where a little known Irish saint wrote modern Europes first rules of war, and womens rights in battle, and not to fight in war, which is being eroded today. In those times, heads were taken as trophies – yes right up to Adamnan’s day, and of women fighters, breasts were chopped off too. We were a lovely people back then, no? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among these ruins where Ivy grows
\nGripping crevices in old stone walls
\nHistory in Europe once was written
\nNeath these arches from where jackdaws calls
\nBreaks the chilly December air
\nAs by these ruins I now pass
\nAdamnans church in the town of Birr
\nNo longer echos the sounds of mass
\nThe sermon, the songs, the sobs of funerals
\nBefore these stones commemorated the dead
\nOver which the grass grows as if they were not there
\nAs if their funeral masses were never said.<\/p>\n

Back then, Ireland was an Amazon race
\n– Of Scythian blood, it is no wonder
\nSome say the Amazons were Scythian in their legendary time –
\nWho in rage of battle ripped each other asunder
\nWomen too fought like men
\nRecorded in legend like Queen Maeve
\nFew after Adamnans laws wielded the sword
\nUnlike Grainne Mhaol the brave
\nBut those who did, when heads were collected
\nHad their breasts cut off, as trophy’s taken
\nSuch was the savagery of the fight tose days
\nAll honour and gentility foresaken…<\/p>\n

Among these ruins, a lerned man
\nWrote long before the league of Nations, a warriors code
\nLong before womens liberation, gave women rights
\nWho heretofor to battle rode
\nBut now in the name of equality
\nFrom Afghanistan out to Iraq
\nA world has forgotten the wisdom of those times
\nAs the warrior woman in battle is back.
\nSome time to come when conscription
\nAffects women globally as men
\nWill women, who do not want to go to the unavoidable fight
\nRemember Adamnan and his wise laws again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its just another ruined church to some, but St Brendans Old Church in Birr is where a little known Irish saint wrote modern Europes first rules of war, and womens rights in battle, and not to fight in war, which is being eroded today. In those times, heads were taken …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,53,1547,90,213],"tags":[1559,1551,2353,210,106,2345,1008,1555,1556,1552,1549,1560,1553,1557,1558,1554,336,1548,1550,129],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birr","category-civil-rights","category-saints-of-ireland","category-walking-verses","category-war","tag-adamnan","tag-amazons","tag-birr","tag-civil-rights-2","tag-human-rights","tag-ireland","tag-irish-heritage-2","tag-law-of-the-innocents","tag-monks","tag-parsonstown","tag-rules-of-war","tag-saint","tag-saint-brendans-church","tag-scribes","tag-scriptorium","tag-synod-of-birr","tag-war-2","tag-war-crimes","tag-women-in-war","tag-womens-rights","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-m2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2863,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/three-men-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":1366,"position":0},"title":"Three Men Dead","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"22nd June 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"On listening to a talk about three men killed by firing squad in Birr castle in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. 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