{"id":2398,"date":"2015-11-03T23:16:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2015-11-03T23:31:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:31:37","slug":"white-sails-on-the-claddagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/white-sails-on-the-claddagh\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sails on the Claddagh"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"White<\/a>
White Sails on the Claddagh – alas but a yacht today, not the King leading a Red Sailed fleet of hookers out for a days fishing…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Peasent<\/a>
Peasent folk of Claddagh<\/figcaption><\/figure>White sails on the Claddagh
\nSail out neath grey skies
\nRed sails of the Hookers
\nFished there in days gone by<\/p>\n

White cottages, since knocked
\nOnce proud there did stand
\nNeither English or Irish
\nThey told each armies Command.<\/p>\n

Their King of the White Sail’s
\nThe men voted on
\nWho sailed the rough waters
\nElected on the Day of Saint John<\/p>\n

\"Portraits<\/a>
Portraits of People of Claddagh
Source: http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20608722?seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The women in blue, wear not Connemara red
\nOn the cloaks that blow in the wind
\nGut the fish brought in by men neath the Red Sails
\nFollow the White Sails to where the fish they may find.<\/p>\n

Instructed in a tongue ancient
\nOnly understood by theirs, to them known
\nWho look on the Gael strangers as much as the Saxon
\nMarry maidens from among their own.<\/p>\n

But men in ties who know more
\nThe buildings condemned
\nIn a craze for health and safety
\nBrought a culture to an end.<\/p>\n

Today a social project
\nOn the former Cladagh lands
\nUgly in form, without passion of construction
\nWas built by strangers hands.<\/p>\n

Lost is all today bar the tales
\nThe culture is wrecked
\nRare today heard local the ancient tongue
\nNever mind the Claddagh dialect.<\/p>\n

We race for progression
\nTo reject what is ours we choose
\nWe gain little from a world that does not know us
\nWhat we are as a people we lose.<\/p>\n

Could they not have built new cottages
\nBigger, hygenic, kept a community as one?
\nThey smashed a society that even the British did not
\nMere poets write now of a society now gone…<\/p>\n

The white sails I see on the Claddagh
\nAre but that of a yacht
\nNot of the King directing his fleet
\nTo where the fish may be got.<\/p>\n

The red sails of the hookers
\nStill bob up on the waters of the bay
\nCuriosities seen as quaint by passing strangers
\nWho take photos and sail them as a toy with which to play.<\/p>\n

\"Claddagh<\/a>
Claddagh in Galway. Image from Library Ireland – http:\/\/www.libraryireland.com\/SceneryIreland\/2-XI-2.php<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20608722?seq=3#page_scan_tab_contents<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.libraryireland.com\/SceneryIreland\/2-XI-2.php<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White sails on the Claddagh Sail out neath grey skies Red sails of the Hookers Fished there in days gone by White cottages, since knocked Once proud there did stand Neither English or Irish They told each armies Command. Their King of the White Sail’s The men voted on Who …<\/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":[1651,256],"tags":[2517,2516,2522,2520,2521,2523,2518,2519],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gander-around-galway","category-irish-heritage","tag-cladagh","tag-claddagh","tag-claddagh-ring","tag-currach","tag-galway-hooker","tag-king-of-claddagh","tag-red-sails","tag-white-sails","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-CG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4803,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-waters-show-no-mercy\/","url_meta":{"origin":2398,"position":0},"title":"The Waters Show No Mercy","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"3rd November 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Dedicated to the memory of Tom and Martin Oliver who lost their lives between Blackrock and Silver Strand yesterday. 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