{"id":3819,"date":"2017-07-19T01:44:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2017-07-19T01:44:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:44:14","slug":"exile-prepares-to-walk-to-connaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/exile-prepares-to-walk-to-connaught\/","title":{"rendered":"Exile Prepares to Walk to Connaught"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Siege<\/a>
Siege of Clonmel 1650 – Original Painting by Graham Turner<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Oliver Cromwell took over Ireland, his infamous decree of “to hell or to Connaught” was enacted. Popularly thought to be all the Irish, it was not, but in the traditional English way of dealing with the Irish clans, it was the nobility or higher classes that were moved and the common folk, powerless without leaders, allowed to remain on their traditional grounds as they were too valuable to lose, and to weak to offer substantial trouble. This verse sees the exile from the vantage point of one of the vanquished about to leave for the distant lands of the West of Ireland from their traditional domain…<\/p>\n

May Day 1652 was the deadline to be gone by, those not gone could be killed on sight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All men and all women, with children at knee
\nOf blood that is noble for generations passed
\nWe from our new masters have got the decree
\nWe must soon the Shannon to the west have gone past.<\/p>\n

Lest we be found on our former ground
\nFrom where by the order we cannot remain
\nWe by word or by gun for law and for fun
\nWe shall by the cruel Saxon be slain.<\/p>\n

They change over there before they come here
\nEach one is worse than the cruel one before
\nWe of the Gael, of the blood, flee in fear
\nWe are masters of our kin and our lands no more.<\/p>\n

We have pitiful lands and do not understand
\nHow to handle the horse when attached to the plough
\nOur labourers and tradesmen all stay on on our land
\nWe will die of starvation if we do not learn how.<\/p>\n

Cruel winter and wild roads, mere tracks for the summer
\nThe truth of the horrors of our trail will be told
\nWhen Erins proud nobles perished through the hard winter
\nThose not slain by the sword are cut down by the cold.<\/p>\n

The roads lead west to Connaught beyond the wide Shannon
\nThat flows rapid and swollen in its winter flood
\nWe pray by the saints, God, Jesus and Mary
\nThe tomorrow that’s sure should we not die will somehow be good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Oliver Cromwell took over Ireland, his infamous decree of “to hell or to Connaught” was enacted. Popularly thought to be all the Irish, it was not, but in the traditional English way of dealing with the Irish clans, it was the nobility or higher classes that were moved and …<\/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":[3722],"tags":[3729,3725,3726,2712,3723,3727,3730,3728,3724],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cromwellian-wars","tag-banishment","tag-connaught","tag-cromwellian-wars","tag-irish-history","tag-oliver-cromwell","tag-oliver-cromwell-in-ireland","tag-plantation","tag-roundheads","tag-to-hell-or-to-connaught","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-ZB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2215,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/blaggards-and-blackguards-slavery-civil-rights-the-irish-and-the-longford-connection\/","url_meta":{"origin":3819,"position":0},"title":"Blaggards and Blackguards, Slavery, Civil Rights, the Irish and the Longford Connection","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"20th August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was a child, I collected stamps. 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