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There they lie where they died\nAt Drumkeeran with the French on the march
\nIn the Irish rising of 98<\/p>\n
There they lie where they died
\nAt Drumkeeran with the French on the march
\nIn the Irish rising of 98<\/p>\n
Names unknown, now forgotten
\nBut a sign makes the spot
\nOf these unfortunates and their fate.<\/p>\n
Oh such dreams, such romance
\nOf those there who died
\nThat this land may be free<\/p>\n
Did they think, if they could see
\nWhat of it would become
\nWould they in uniform be?<\/p>\n
Then the slevven for money
\nHis homeland betrayed
\nToday it is much the same<\/p>\n
Its not the landlord, but the banks
\nIrish ludges and Irish laws cast Irishment to the road,
\nTake their homes without shame!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At Drumkeeran there is a mass grave of troops who died on the march with Humbert in 1798. To see how the Irish treat our own, taking homes for banks profits instead of landlords, we often ask, was all the fighting worth it at all?<\/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":[412,1],"tags":[4263,4264,4265,2345],"class_list":["post-4617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1798-rebellion","category-uncategorized","tag-1798-rebellion","tag-drumkeeran","tag-fight-for-freedom","tag-ireland","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1ct","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1676,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/comrades-stood-as-comrades-should\/","url_meta":{"origin":4617,"position":0},"title":"Comrades Stood as Comrades Should","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"1st May 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Comrades stood as comrades should For each other, for cause to fight Man to man, as heros can To fall is noble when what you fall for is right. 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