{"id":4170,"date":"2017-11-11T01:13:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T01:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2020-11-25T03:16:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:16:04","slug":"lusmagh-and-ireland-remember-those-who-died-for-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/lusmagh-and-ireland-remember-those-who-died-for-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Lusmagh and Ireland Remember Those Who Died for Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>
The Manchester Martyrs – Let Us Remember Them<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Manchester Martyrs Commemoration
\n26th November 2017, Birr, Co Offaly
\n150th anniversary<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That Lusmagh man, brave as they come
\nAs are the stock from where he was from
\nThey set their prisoners for to free
\nOn the streets on Manchester city<\/p>\n

Fate, as she does, dealt a cruel hand
\nThe constable at the door did stand
\nRefused to on command the door to open
\nShot as the lock was blown to free the men.<\/p>\n

Great the pressure on the police
\nTo capture the shooters and not to cease
\nUntil an Irishman was found to be hung
\nHe he to his death on gallows swung.<\/p>\n

Larkin on hearing he was to die
\nStood a proud man with strong eye
\nAs Christ on the cross he spoke of the Jury men
\nSaying “As I am a dying man… may God forgive them”…<\/p>\n

They died as Irishmen, and what a death
\nFor wrong the length on the rope was set
\nAs through the trap door they op opening were flung
\nThe stopped, half alive, half dead, half hung.<\/p>\n

William Calcraft, the hangman, who couldn’t hang a coat
\nHung to Larkins legs as in horror the press wrote
\nOf the Irishmen who as before their death did stand
\nTheir last words for posterity were “God Save Ireland”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester Martyrs Commemoration 26th November 2017, Birr, Co Offaly 150th anniversary That Lusmagh man, brave as they come As are the stock from where he was from They set their prisoners for to free On the streets on Manchester city Fate, as she does, dealt a cruel hand The constable …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,4007],"tags":[4008,4010,4367,4364,4366,2027,3650,4009,4365,4012,4013,4363,4011],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irelands-wars","category-the-fenian-campaign","tag-allen-larkin-and-o-brien","tag-fenian","tag-fenians","tag-hangman","tag-irb","tag-lusmagh","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-martyrs","tag-manchester-outrages","tag-michael-larkin","tag-michael-obrien","tag-william-calcraft","tag-william-philip-allen","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-15g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4352,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/tom-moran-lusmagh-horse-trader-remembered\/","url_meta":{"origin":4170,"position":0},"title":"Tom Moran – Lusmagh Horsetrader Remembered","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th April 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From youth, from Lusmagh with his stock Among the traders there From far and near, home and abroad All met at Banagher Fair. 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