{"id":3744,"date":"2017-05-29T21:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2017-05-29T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:08:23","slug":"horsemen-awaited-at-bunlahy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/horsemen-awaited-at-bunlahy\/","title":{"rendered":"Horsemen Awaited at Bunlahy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jack<\/a>
Jack B Yeats illustration from Big Tree of Bunlahy – it was a focal point of the village, some say it blew down on the Night of the Big Wind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Background – Sean Mac Eoin told of a Tracey family related to him that had two brothers in the fight at Granard, and this tale which I have recorded in verse of their people. These probably would also be the Treacys of my great grandmothers people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The French are beyond the Shannon
\nThey will cross the waters
\nTo be welcomed by the widows
\nTo be greeted by dead rebels daughters…
\nThe British are in Granard
\nIts expected they will flee
\nTwo brothers of the Treacys
\nAre expected in Bunlahy…<\/p>\n

And then was seen by eager eyes
\nHorsemen come towards the town
\nA man jumped up from his chair
\nFrom the roof took his pike down!
\nHe ran to meet the army
\nBut he was not to have known
\nIt was not French but the British!
\nThese men were not his own!<\/p>\n

They seized him as a rebel
\nAs the birds his mourning song they sang
\nBy the Big Tree of Bunlahy
\nYoung Treacy was set to hang.
\nIt was not to be the rebels year
\nFreedom was a long time to come
\nWe remember those who have all for us
\nIn the dangerous times that they are from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Background – Sean Mac Eoin told of a Tracey family related to him that had two brothers in the fight at Granard, and this tale which I have recorded in verse of their people. These probably would also be the Treacys of my great grandmothers people. The French are beyond …<\/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":[412,20,23,1],"tags":[561,3654,3652,2342,3653],"class_list":["post-3744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1798-rebellion","category-irelands-wars","category-north-longford","category-uncategorized","tag-561","tag-battle-of-granard","tag-bunlahy","tag-north-longford","tag-treacy","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Yo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2053,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ill-go-where-im-sent\/","url_meta":{"origin":3744,"position":0},"title":"Ill Go Where Im Sent","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"30th July 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Invitation received: all were excited Again their friends where they are twinned they would meet Its not a junket: this, this is essential - How many to send to see them name a street? 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