{"id":2724,"date":"2016-05-09T22:55:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T22:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2016-05-09T22:55:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T22:55:56","slug":"war-with-the-whin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/war-with-the-whin\/","title":{"rendered":"War with the Whin"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>&#8220;Whin&#8221; is the word for furze in Hiberno English and Ulster Scots in the northern half of Ireland (North Leinster and Connacht, and all of Ulster, both the section in the Republic and in Northern Ireland) by the Irish and the Scots, gorse is the name in the east (Dublin\u00a0 and the old &#8220;Pale&#8221;), furze was once a symbol of wealth and fertility of land as is emphasized by the saying: &#8220;gold under furze, silver under rushes and famine under heather.&#8221; In our family, it was seen as a sign of poor land, not of riches! The latest verse restored to the website!<\/address>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3072\" style=\"width: 937px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3072\" alt=\"Never known as a sign of wealth in my family, the whins were cursed as being a sign of bad land. But not according to the old saying...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Furze-and-Rushes-on-the-site-of-The-Battle-of-Ballinamuck.jpg\" width=\"937\" height=\"293\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Never known as a sign of wealth in my family, the whins were cursed as being a sign of bad land. But not according to the old saying&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They thought not of it as covering gold, knowing not their wealth,<br \/>\nThey knew less than those who went before them to the soil&#8230;<br \/>\nThey cursed the yellow bush that grew upon their land&#8230;<br \/>\nStrived to eradicate it with their toil.<\/p>\n<p>When driving by the fields in other counties, and it was seen,<br \/>\nTo curse its yellow blossoms they would begin&#8230;<br \/>\nThey knew not the saying that famine under heather was,<br \/>\nSilver neath rushes, and gold neath the whin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whin&#8221; is the word for furze in Hiberno English and Ulster Scots in the northern half of Ireland (North Leinster and Connacht, and all of Ulster, both the section in the Republic and in Northern Ireland) by the Irish and the Scots, gorse is the name in the east (Dublin\u00a0 &#8230;<\/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":[232,23],"tags":[2819,42,2820,1052,2818],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-2","category-north-longford","tag-furze","tag-longford","tag-plants","tag-tradition","tag-whin","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-HW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4575,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/folk-of-the-land-of-the-whin\/","url_meta":{"origin":2724,"position":0},"title":"Folk of the Land of the Whin","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"3rd December 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From where to the world's four corners spread All desire to, but few manage to return To children tales told, songs sung its said For deep within a fire does burn A sense of place, of people, who we are Our history, our culture we pass on To those after\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;\"Home Made\" Anthology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"\"Home Made\" Anthology","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/bibliography\/home-made-anthology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bog at Edenmore, Ballinamuck, Co. 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