{"id":1674,"date":"2015-05-01T18:25:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T18:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2015-05-01T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T18:26:15","slug":"may-day-mayhem-maypoles-and-marches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/may-day-mayhem-maypoles-and-marches\/","title":{"rendered":"May Day Mayhem, Maypoles and Marches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arvas streets saw chaos, fights and blood<br \/>\nMen of anger settling fueds, scores and slights<br \/>\nMoscows streets saw tanks and missiles<br \/>\nTelevisions broadcasting to the world the feasome sights<br \/>\nEnglands fair fields saw dancing around Maypoles&#8230;<br \/>\nYoung men over maidens fair having fistfights&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today the workers struggle struggles on<br \/>\nThough their load is not as hard as before<br \/>\nMoscow and Arva remember their heydays<br \/>\nBoth have not such spectacles any more.<br \/>\nEnglands far fair fields are quiet now<br \/>\nThe maypole forgotton bar by a few score&#8230;<\/p>\n<address> &#8220;Mayday in Arvagh&#8221; was a phrase used by my father to describe a riot situation, as at the annual May Day fair in the Cavan town people fought to settle scores and slights often from a meeting, a drinking session or a deal on an animal gone wrong from the previos year. Contrasted with the cold war displays on International Labour Day in the old east bloc, it is farcical to look down on indeed, both having their roots in the pagan May Day traditions in England and Europe, which now like the Soviet marches and the fights at a May Day fair are a thing of the past, at least on the scale they one were. <\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arvas streets saw chaos, fights and blood Men of anger settling fueds, scores and slights Moscows streets saw tanks and missiles Televisions broadcasting to the world the feasome sights Englands fair fields saw dancing around Maypoles&#8230; Young men over maidens fair having fistfights&#8230; Today the workers struggle struggles on Though &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1812,1822,1811,1813,1818,1814,1815,1819,1817,1816,1821,999,1658,1820],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arva","tag-arvagh","tag-arvaghg","tag-cavan","tag-dance-of-the-maypole","tag-fair-day","tag-fair-day-in-arvagh","tag-may-day-fair","tag-maypole","tag-moscow","tag-queen-of-the-may","tag-soviet-union","tag-traditions","tag-traditions-around-may-day","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-r0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2232,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/arvagh\/","url_meta":{"origin":1674,"position":0},"title":"Arvagh","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"31st August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Provinces three by waters banks By war and history defined Men with quill drawing maps Each side to each outlined. 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