{"id":1884,"date":"2015-06-14T15:05:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2015-06-14T15:09:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T15:09:33","slug":"cavaliers-to-ride-again-at-banagher-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/cavaliers-to-ride-again-at-banagher-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers To Ride Again At Banagher Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

They will tumble down as Dick did before them
\nTo one side will be their self important laws will be thrown
\nWe will sell our horses as did our forefathers before us
\nIt is not for the government to say can we a horse sell or own
\nNot their right pass acts in parliament to grant or deny permission
\nFor a fair granted by Charles himself from the throne…<\/p>\n

Royal charter, to sell our horses on the streets was written
\nWhen the king lost his crown and head, it continued on
\nWe got our freedom from Kings and Protectors officially
\nWhy is it only now the right to sell our horses is gone?
\nRoundheads in suits who wield pens and not swords, wont arrest bankers as criminals for fraud
\nMake a wiling Yeomanry of the Guardai to call the common man one?<\/p>\n

We may have lost our language to fit in with regulations
\nSome lost their faith, more changed their name
\nWe endured such like and worse from regimes far stronger
\nFrom such tenacious folk our folk have came
\nWe will trade horses in Banagher in September
\nIf we have to swap, barter or raffle them we will
\nIn the spirit of the Restoration of our nation
\nCome ride with the Cavaliers at the Fair on Banagher Hill!<\/p>\n

\"Charles
Charles I, who granted the charter for the Banagher Horse Fair in 1608. His followers were Cavaliers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Banagher Horse Fair dates back to circa 1608, when King Charles I of the House of Stewart granted the rights not alone to the current horse fair, but to another two as well. The others died out, only the horse fair remains.<\/p>\n

Even during Cromwellian times the Horse Fair continued, and to the present day unbroken by the Williamite Wars, the rebellions of 1641, 1798, 1801, 1848, the Fenains, the War of Independence, the Civil War and two World Wars… until numptys in suits descided regulation was more important than tradition, and the law is the law and must be upheld.<\/p>\n

The full force of the local Gardai and the Department of Agriculture and the Revenue Commissioners was used last year – as I satired in “Just Doing Our Job<\/a>“<\/b>, when bankers involved in high level fraud have not been jailed, but yet to sell a horse without permission is denied.<\/p>\n

We did not need permission to own or sell a horse from government since the end of the Penal Laws.<\/p>\n

If they take a Cromwellian approach to governement and instill injust laws, then folk have no problems taking a cavalier approach to such laws and by hook or by crook if we have to raffle the horses on the streets – selling but not selling – the Banagher Horse Fair will continue.<\/p>\n

Ride wit the Cavaliers – see you in Banagher this September!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They will tumble down as Dick did before them To one side will be their self important laws will be thrown We will sell our horses as did our forefathers before us It is not for the government to say can we a horse sell or own Not their right …<\/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":[439,152,194,55,54],"tags":[718,2058,2061,719,2059,918,2060],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banagher","category-birr","category-blog","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","tag-banagher-horse-fair","tag-cromwell","tag-events","tag-horse-fair","tag-king-chales","tag-offaly","tag-regualtions","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-uo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":601,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/streets-of-shame-in-2014-but-banagher-horse-fair-prevails\/","url_meta":{"origin":1884,"position":0},"title":"Streets of Shame in 2014 – But Banagher Horse Fair Prevails","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It was a scene of shame for the Garda\u00ed in Banagher this past weekend, as on the the Saturday, en force they arrived, with Revenue men and Dept. of Agriculture personnel and turned away visiting people from Banagher, telling them that there was no horse fair. 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