{"id":3067,"date":"2016-08-01T00:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T00:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2016-08-01T00:57:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T00:57:10","slug":"no-tales-out-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-tales-out-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"No Tales Out of School"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tullamore<\/a>
Tullamore in County Offaly. Nearby in Clara, the twin mystries of the boy of the Touhys<\/strong><\/a> death in the canal that is officially suicide but family say no, to the death of Fr Molloy<\/strong><\/a> remain unsatisfactorily resolved, with eerie similarities to the Mary Boyle<\/strong><\/a> case in Donegal. Tullamore is also the town of Fiona Pender, missing from this street for near twenty years. The offical story on these cases are not revealing any answers which makes folk wonder is the official story wrong?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In days of old if you were bold
\nOr not, and got yourself slapped by the rule
\nYour parents you never told as they would not scold
\nBut slap you again for getting punished in school.<\/p>\n

You – you kept mum, you kept schtum…
\nSuch a foundation in society was laid,
\nThough it was not to blame, it was the same
\nThose who talk, of consequences are afraid.<\/p>\n

Life was hard, every town was Granard
\nIts secrets to itself is kept
\nIts shame they hid, no one knew but all did
\nOn uneasy consciences all slept.<\/p>\n

From the women unfound to abortions underground
\nAnd the women who died from them
\nTo hide the shame that would come to the name
\nSo kill the kid, lets not talk of them.<\/p>\n

Some fools speak loud it should be allowed
\nWomen it will sexually liberate:
\nWhy not end the shame of baby carried when mother is unmarried
\nHow can new life leave a woman in sinful state?<\/p>\n

To the children abused for whom justice was refused
\nThose in power protected
\nSo far from justice removed, the guilty moved
\nA facade of piety and purity erected.<\/p>\n

Sure we danced and romanced when given the chance
\nTo the music of distraction howing at full and new moons
\nFamilies from embarrassment must be protected as theyd be affected
\nIf such was said… society says keep on playing the spoons…<\/p>\n

Boys in canals found, the story around
\nOfficial: he took his own life
\nRelationship unapproved, so far from normality removed
\nBrought on the boys family such strife.<\/p>\n

Everyone asks for them to be found, rumors abound
\nThats the last thing that is wanted
\nNo tales out of school is the general rule
\nThe innocent dead are not counted.<\/p>\n

The official story may hide a truth gory
\nIt might not be sectarian, but of class
\nA thinking we find still exists in some minds
\nHurrahs come from the braying of an ass.<\/p>\n

Mystics are called, the public enthralled
\nRead of visions of buildings of arches
\nAll look around, yet nothing is found
\nTo spite all campaign and bridges and marches.<\/p>\n

Ireland of history. island of mystery,
\nEveryone knows, yet still no one
\nDawns come and go, no one says so
\nSo the decades long have gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In days of old if you were bold Or not, and got yourself slapped by the rule Your parents you never told as they would not scold But slap you again for getting punished in school. You – you kept mum, you kept schtum… Such a foundation in society was …<\/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":[55,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Nt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2051,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/memories-of-tullamore-at-irelands-smallest-comedy-club-setting-off-for-valentia\/","url_meta":{"origin":3067,"position":0},"title":"Memories of Tullamore at Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club – Setting off for Valentia","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"10th July 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I was down tonight at Irelands Smallest Comedy Club, where fellow Tullamore man (Im not Longford now that its cool to be from Tullamore!!!) 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