{"id":4111,"date":"2017-11-04T01:42:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T01:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2017-11-04T01:42:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T01:42:45","slug":"the-night-nelson-learned-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-night-nelson-learned-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Nelson Learned to Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liam Sutcliffe blew up Nelsons Pillar. This poem tells the story. He passed away today.
\nAr dheis D\u00e9 go raibh a anam<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Night Lord Nelson Learned to Fly – Nelsons Pillar Blown Up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Crumlin Road in Belfast town
\nChatting together over drinks
\nThe men of old who lost their lives
\nThe folk of the day speaks and thinks
\nThat in an Ireland of the time
\nThat is a free land
\nWhy should an admiral of the Empire of old
\nOn O’Connell Street stand?<\/p>\n

So the plot was hatched, the plan was made,
\nThe statue was to be assailed
\nBut the devil it is said looks after his own…
\nThe first attempt sadly failed!
\nBut long threatening comes at last
\nAnd Nelson sailed to the sky
\nNo one knew who done it and when
\nBut everybody understood the reason why.<\/p>\n

In America today Confederates in stone
\nCause to those once enslaved offence
\nThey ask for them to be taken down
\nUnderstandanble, its common sense.
\nBut the whites say its their culture you see…
\nWhere did we hear that line before?
\nIf they put them to fly like dear old Nelson
\nThey would be a problem no more!!!<\/p>\n

Reference:<\/p>\n

The Man Who Blew Up Nelsons Pillar<\/a> (Irish Times)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liam Sutcliffe blew up Nelsons Pillar. This poem tells the story. He passed away today. Ar dheis D\u00e9 go raibh a anam In Crumlin Road in Belfast town Chatting together over drinks The men of old who lost their lives The folk of the day speaks and thinks That in …<\/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":[530],"tags":[3957,1028,3960,2766,3958,3959,3565],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles-since-1969","tag-ar-dheis-de-go-raibh-a-anam","tag-dublin","tag-horatio-nelson","tag-ira","tag-liam-sutcliffe","tag-nelsons-pillar","tag-the-troubles","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-14j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2048,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ar-dheis-de-go-raibh-a-hanam\/","url_meta":{"origin":4111,"position":0},"title":"Ar Dheis D\u00e9 go Raibh a hanam","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"10th July 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Remembering the fallen Irish of both world wars, who were forgotton due to the stigma of being in the British Army Their pain now passed, and families Who were left behind when they did die Can now speak public of the unspoken Who for another flag did die. 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