{"id":1709,"date":"2015-05-13T19:13:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2015-05-13T19:13:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:13:27","slug":"forgotten-famine-in-a-free-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/forgotten-famine-in-a-free-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Famine in a Free State"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1710\" style=\"width: 761px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Manchester-Guardian-newspaper-on-the-Irish-famine-of-1925.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Manchester-Guardian-newspaper-on-the-Irish-famine-of-1925.png\" alt=\"Manchester Guardian newspaper on the Irish famine of 1925\" width=\"761\" height=\"776\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Manchester-Guardian-newspaper-on-the-Irish-famine-of-1925.png 761w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Manchester-Guardian-newspaper-on-the-Irish-famine-of-1925-294x300.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manchester Guardian newspaper on the Irish famine of 1925<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1916 &#8211; A Broken Dream by 1926<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The forgotten famine, the Spailpin Fanach decimated, never in the history books, the forgotten declaration of 1916, was it for that that those men and O&#8217;Leary died? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cold in their graves, the heros of 1916<br \/>\nIf alive those days, appalled would have been<br \/>\nThat that day, in a land officially free<br \/>\nStarving for food, Irishmen would be<br \/>\nThat the reality would by their own be denied<br \/>\nThat Irishmen of hunger in their own land died.<\/p>\n<p>The banshee wailed for many of her own those nights<br \/>\nErin covered her eyes from the tragic sights.<\/p>\n<p>The priests got fat, as money ruled<br \/>\nThe landlords put to flight, a people fooled<br \/>\nThe tyranny was worse, not just the same<br \/>\nAs before the tricolor to the mast to fly came<br \/>\nTo fly to salute Death that came to reap<br \/>\nThe souls of the poor who from hunger sleep<\/p>\n<p>The banshee wailed for many of her own those nights<br \/>\nErin covered her eyes from the tragic sights.<\/p>\n<p>No coffin ships came to take them over the waves<br \/>\nA people free to die that were ruled by knaves<br \/>\nFor whom the Risings Proclamation was only words spoken<br \/>\nFor it was the Jacobite spirit that was awoken<br \/>\nAs Tory as the Williamite, it spoke for the gentry<br \/>\nThe yoke remained on the poor, who were far from free.<\/p>\n<p>The banshee wailed for many of her own those nights<br \/>\nErin covered her eyes from the tragic sights.<\/p>\n<address>Reference<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irishhistorypodcast.ie\/1925-irelands-forgotten-famine\/\">Irish History Podcast<\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1916 &#8211; A Broken Dream by 1926 The forgotten famine, the Spailpin Fanach decimated, never in the history books, the forgotten declaration of 1916, was it for that that those men and O&#8217;Leary died? Cold in their graves, the heros of 1916 If alive those days, appalled would have been &#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":[55,54,1662,1304],"tags":[1849,1853,557,1854,1851,1852,1850],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","category-irish-free-state","category-media-2","tag-1849","tag-farm-labourers","tag-irish-free-state","tag-itenerants","tag-pailp","tag-spailpin","tag-spailpin-fanach","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-rz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2519,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/one-faith-under-two-flags\/","url_meta":{"origin":1709,"position":0},"title":"One Faith Under Two Flags","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"31st January 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"One faith under two flags fought in Galway The Gloucester's guns roared as shells rained from Athenry to Castlegar The Men of Claddagh, as per their rings, came out for the Crown The rebels fought on, the smoke and sound spread far. 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