{"id":4621,"date":"2020-02-26T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2020-02-26T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T12:10:21","slug":"remembering-ballinamuck-and-the-rebels-who-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/remembering-ballinamuck-and-the-rebels-who-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Ballinamuck and the Rebels Who Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3678\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/long-walk-in-edenmore-bog\/stack-of-turf-in-edenmore-bog-with-cairn-hill-in-background-in-north-longford\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stack-of-turf-in-Edenmore-Bog-with-Cairn-Hill-in-background-in-North-Longford.jpg\" alt=\"Stack of turf in Edenmore Bog with Cairn Hill in background in North Longford\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stack-of-turf-in-Edenmore-Bog-with-Cairn-Hill-in-background-in-North-Longford.jpg 480w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stack-of-turf-in-Edenmore-Bog-with-Cairn-Hill-in-background-in-North-Longford-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stack-of-turf-in-Edenmore-Bog-with-Cairn-Hill-in-background-in-North-Longford-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stack-of-turf-in-Edenmore-Bog-with-Cairn-Hill-in-background-in-North-Longford-332x332.jpg 332w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stack-of-turf-in-Edenmore-Bog-with-Cairn-Hill-in-background-in-North-Longford-432x432.jpg 432w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stack-of-turf-in-Edenmore-Bog-with-Cairn-Hill-in-background-in-North-Longford-268x268.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stack of turf in Edenmore Bog with Cairn Hill in background in North Longford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The best plans of battle fall apart at the fight,<br \/>\nThe devil always sides with his own.<br \/>\nThe stuggle for Irelands freedom proved this again and again,<br \/>\nAs its soil the spilt blood of her hero&#8217;s has known.<\/p>\n<p>It was not Irelands day, like many before and to come:<br \/>\nThe French and the Irish, the same fight if not the reasons why&#8230;<br \/>\nFrench fought for Irelands freedom from Empires cruel rule:<br \/>\nYet the same freedom to their own Imperial subjects would deny.<\/p>\n<p>Humbert on Shanmullagh, his forces made their stand &#8211;<br \/>\nThe English crossed the bogs from direction of Drumlish&#8230;<br \/>\nBoth sides prayed to the one God to be victorius that day:<br \/>\nThat they&#8217;d survive or die quickly many wished.<\/p>\n<p>Placed along the road Battalion of Irish Pipemen along with the French Grenadiers,<br \/>\nAwaited reinforcements that were not to come&#8230;<br \/>\nTo their surprise and dismay, it is British who approach:<br \/>\nThe direction that their own were to be from!<\/p>\n<p>The French opened fire, but were outflanked&#8230;<br \/>\nJobit showed the white flag with some 200 men.<br \/>\nBrave Blake made his stand with the Gunner McGee,<br \/>\nAt Gaigue to fight for Irelands freedom again.<\/p>\n<p>But the day it was lost, Humbert had surrendered&#8230;<br \/>\nMcGee bore the cannon on his back:<br \/>\nBroken in the recoil, as was Irelands cause for that day!<br \/>\nBrave the Irish died in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides for retreat each other they blamed,<br \/>\nSeeing bravery in only thier own&#8230;<br \/>\nThe soldier sees no sense in the rebels disorderly attack,<br \/>\nWho never the discipline of training has known.<\/p>\n<p>The rebel knows to flee for to save his skin,<br \/>\nWaits not for command of flag or horn!<br \/>\nLooks like cowardice to the soldier what to the rebel is common sense:<br \/>\nThey may live to fight again another morn.<\/p>\n<p>The fled, no peace argued for them, they were for the death!<br \/>\nAccross the wild bogs of Edenmore<br \/>\nWhere I walk where they died by the there British pursued<br \/>\nAfter that battle all those long years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering the Irish who died at the Battle of Ballinamuck<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1cx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4458,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/rebel-asleep\/","url_meta":{"origin":4621,"position":0},"title":"Rebel Asleep","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd February 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Pondering the sleeping rebels who fled after defeat at Ballinamuck in 1798 who sought refuge in Edenmore Bog","rel":"","context":"In &quot;1798 Rebellion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"1798 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