{"id":21,"date":"2014-08-08T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2014-08-08T11:05:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:05:35","slug":"barbados-chest-in-a-molly-cottage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/barbados-chest-in-a-molly-cottage\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbados Chest in a Molly Cottage"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>* Molly is a townland in North Longford, Ireland, where my great grandmother Margaret Drake (who married Michael O Reilly, she herself was of the Drakes of Ballinulty) had a chest brought back from Barbados by an ancestor of hers who was a plantation agent there, of which we heard tales of when children and thought of it as a treasure chest, wondered what became of it, and in childish innocence, thought not of what pain it left behind in the islands from which it came&#8230;<\/address>\n<p>Barbados chest, in a Molly cottage<br \/>\nPlantation agent, on a Carribean isle<br \/>\nLong lost, and tales of wild travels there<br \/>\nRemembered, told in pieces with a smile<br \/>\nHistory horrific, we stop not to think<br \/>\nOf those who struggled, laboured on the plantations yoke<br \/>\nFree now to remember the tears of their fathers before<br \/>\nWe not as we should with guilt our words choke&#8230;<br \/>\nWe talk in wonder only of an exotic chest<br \/>\nAs if it contained treasure there from childish tails<br \/>\nWhen its owner, ancestor of she with the lovely garden<br \/>\nBrought it back to Ireland neath billowing sails.<br \/>\nOne of many of his name, one of many of his kind<br \/>\nNot the first of his kind to cross the high Atlantic wave<br \/>\nPirates, privateer&#8217;s, slaver&#8217;s, can these really be our folk<br \/>\nThat made their fortune in such a way depraved?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Molly is a townland in North Longford, Ireland, where my great grandmother Margaret Drake (who married Michael O Reilly, she herself was of the Drakes of Ballinulty) had a chest brought back from Barbados by an ancestor of hers who was a plantation agent there, of which we heard &#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":[22,23],"tags":[41,24,44,43,42],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-stories","category-north-longford","tag-barbados","tag-drake-family-history","tag-family-lore","tag-geneaology","tag-longford","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2215,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/blaggards-and-blackguards-slavery-civil-rights-the-irish-and-the-longford-connection\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":0},"title":"Blaggards and Blackguards, Slavery, Civil Rights, the Irish and the Longford Connection","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"20th August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was a child, I collected stamps. 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