{"id":3606,"date":"2017-03-12T01:18:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T01:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2017-03-12T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T01:18:56","slug":"they-are-dancing-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/they-are-dancing-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"They Are Dancing Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"hellfire club  rave dublin ireland  dj bob byrne\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l5F4waoLT84?start=112&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They are dancing tonight, the fine women<br \/>\nLoud is the music, beyond thinking<br \/>\nThey are out upon the mountain<br \/>\nVodka, by the bottle, drinking!<\/p>\n<p>Cider they are guzzling too<br \/>\nPopping pills as old hat<br \/>\nThey are dancing to the beats<br \/>\nWho are but seventeen if at all that.<\/p>\n<p>When de Valera looks down on them<br \/>\nHe is happy tonight it does seem<br \/>\nThey are dancing at the crossroads<br \/>\nNot in the way the poor man did dream!<\/p>\n<p><em>This poem in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ta-siad-ag-damhsa-anocht\/\">Irish<\/a><\/strong><\/em> ::: <em>An Dan seo as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ta-siad-ag-damhsa-anocht\/\">Gaelige<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Translation edited by <strong>Reiltin Nic C\u00e1rthaigh D\u00faill<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3603\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ta-siad-ag-damhsa-anocht\/quote-that-ireland-which-we-dreamed-of-comely-maidens-quote-eamon-de-valera\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3603\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/quote-that-ireland-which-we-dreamed-of-comely-maidens-quote-eamon-de-valera.jpg\" alt=\"Eamon de Valera actually never said the phrase &quot;comely maidens dancing at the crossroads&quot; though this phrase attributed to him in the St Patricks Day speech is by now iconic. They are dancing allright... but not in the way he could ever have thought! \" width=\"850\" height=\"474\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/quote-that-ireland-which-we-dreamed-of-comely-maidens-quote-eamon-de-valera.jpg 850w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/quote-that-ireland-which-we-dreamed-of-comely-maidens-quote-eamon-de-valera-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/quote-that-ireland-which-we-dreamed-of-comely-maidens-quote-eamon-de-valera-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/quote-that-ireland-which-we-dreamed-of-comely-maidens-quote-eamon-de-valera-700x390.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/quote-that-ireland-which-we-dreamed-of-comely-maidens-quote-eamon-de-valera-332x185.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eamon de Valera actually never said the phrase &#8220;comely maidens dancing at the crossroads&#8221; though this phrase attributed to him in the St Patricks Day speech is by now iconic. They are dancing allright&#8230; but not in the way he could ever have thought!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are dancing tonight, the fine women Loud is the music, beyond thinking They are out upon the mountain Vodka, by the bottle, drinking! Cider they are guzzling too Popping pills as old hat They are dancing to the beats Who are but seventeen if at all that. When de &#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":[55,54],"tags":[3558,3560,947,945,946,3559,3555],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","tag-comely-maidens","tag-dance-music","tag-dancing-at-the-crossroads","tag-dreams-of-de-valera","tag-eamonn-de-valera","tag-girls","tag-rave","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Wa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":676,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-dreams-of-de-valera\/","url_meta":{"origin":3606,"position":0},"title":"The Dreams of De Valera","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd September 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It is empty, the road, now There is no music, or sport. The young girls, beautiful, At dance, they are not. The boys, big, are not playing Football and hurling during the day, And they are not singing the songs. There\u2019s no-one that hears it. 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The comely maidens behind the walls Their babies to the highest bidders for sale These are the ones not they didn't speak of Whose children\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Catholic Church Scandals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Catholic Church Scandals","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/ireland\/catholic-church-scandals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tragic and horrific as the findings in Tuam are... they will prove to be the tip of the iceberg.  De Valera and those like him did not build an Ireland for those who lived outside the given norm, the underclass and the social misfits were not part of his vision, as they did not fit in.  Their babies fitted nicely in a septic thank though...","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Mother-and-Baby-Home-in-Tuam.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Mother-and-Baby-Home-in-Tuam.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Mother-and-Baby-Home-in-Tuam.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Mother-and-Baby-Home-in-Tuam.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Mother-and-Baby-Home-in-Tuam.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":672,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/traume-von-de-valera\/","url_meta":{"origin":3606,"position":3},"title":"Tr\u00e4ume von De Valera","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Leer nun die Stra\u00dfe. 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