{"id":4696,"date":"2020-06-14T01:27:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T00:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2020-06-14T01:27:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T00:27:58","slug":"six-minutes-until-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/six-minutes-until-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Minutes Until Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/index.php\/six-minutes-until-death\/shot-in-revenge-by-the-irish-free-state\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4697\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shot-in-Revenge-by-the-Irish-Free-State.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shot-in-Revenge-by-the-Irish-Free-State.jpg 750w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shot-in-Revenge-by-the-Irish-Free-State-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shot-in-Revenge-by-the-Irish-Free-State-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shot-in-Revenge-by-the-Irish-Free-State-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shot-in-Revenge-by-the-Irish-Free-State-332x332.jpg 332w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shot-in-Revenge-by-the-Irish-Free-State-432x432.jpg 432w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shot-in-Revenge-by-the-Irish-Free-State-268x268.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zVTe5wXQo_U<\/p>\n<p>Jailed by their own, reading of the deaths of others:<br \/>\nSix minutes it took one they read of to death to bleed!<br \/>\nReality was around the corner&#8230;<br \/>\nTo ignore the fact all had the need,<br \/>\nForm them, their six minutes was coming,<br \/>\nThat it was so, for all, none knew<br \/>\nReading words of one who dodged the bullet<br \/>\nI join the ranks of those who that fact knew.<br \/>\nThe flag had changed allright, but not the tyranny,<br \/>\nTrue had become the late great James Connolly&#8217;s iconic words<br \/>\nThose notions, the new state those conflicts had created<br \/>\nMade the Proclaimation to be but the twittering of birds.<br \/>\nWhat do men think in those six minutes<br \/>\nThat it takes a manshot in the heart fatally to die<br \/>\nFor the want of a free united Ireland<br \/>\nThat his former comrades now deny?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Top of Cork Road&quot; Irish celtic jig and reel, Ryan Thomson on fiddle &quot;Captain Fiddle&quot;\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6WwthBJHak?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Marching to their deaths they sang the music to &#8220;Top of Cork Road&#8221;. Joe McKelvey had read in &#8220;Gadfly&#8221; that it took six minutes for a man to bleed to death when shot in the heart. Commenting, one said if they were shot they hoped it would not take that long. Little did they know it takes everyone that long to die when shot that way, and it was soon coming for them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marching to their deaths they sang the music to &#8220;Top of Cork Road&#8221;. Joe McKelvey had read in &#8220;Gadfly&#8221; that it took six minutes for a man to bleed to death when shot in the heart. Commenting, one said if they were shot they hoped it would not take that long. Little did they know it takes everyone that long to die when shot that way, and it was soon coming for them&#8230;<\/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":[177],"tags":[4293,190,4292],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-civil-war","tag-gadfly","tag-irish-civil-war-2","tag-joe-mckelvey","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1dK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4451,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/cupid-shot-down-on-an-irish-street\/","url_meta":{"origin":4696,"position":0},"title":"Cupid Shot Down on an Irish Street","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th February 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The tragic love story of John Kennedy and Mary Douglas in the Irish Civil War","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Irish Civil War&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Irish Civil War","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/irish-civil-war\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"John Kennedy Free State soldier killed in battle on wedding day after marraige to Mary Douglas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/John-Kennedy-Free-State-soldier-killed-in-battle-on-wedding-day-after-marraige-to-Mary-Douglas-234x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2593,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/1916-war-and-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":4696,"position":1},"title":"1916 &#8211; War and Revolution","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"12th March 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"1916 - a year to most Remembered for slaughter of the Somme Youth sacrificed by generals incompetence Against the odds sent to die Little hope of winning 1916 - a year to most Remembered for the glory of Easter Week Youth sacrificed by generals idealism Against the odds the generals\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;1916 Easter Rising&quot;","block_context":{"text":"1916 Easter Rising","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/irelands-wars\/1916-easter-rising\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"New York Times reports on the Easter Rising---1916-April-28","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/New-York-Times-reports-on-the-Easter-Rising-1916-April-28.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/New-York-Times-reports-on-the-Easter-Rising-1916-April-28.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/New-York-Times-reports-on-the-Easter-Rising-1916-April-28.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4060,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-holy-book-proves-no-shield\/","url_meta":{"origin":4696,"position":2},"title":"A Holy Book Proves No Shield","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th October 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The death of Mahon, the King, who set a little too much faith in the Bible for protection! 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A Holy Book it is no shield To those intent its bearer to kill Such a man should always carry a shield And\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ireland&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ireland","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/ireland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Not even the Bible can be a shield against a swinging sword","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Not-even-the-Bible-can-be-a-shield-against-a-swinging-sword.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Not-even-the-Bible-can-be-a-shield-against-a-swinging-sword.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Not-even-the-Bible-can-be-a-shield-against-a-swinging-sword.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Not-even-the-Bible-can-be-a-shield-against-a-swinging-sword.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Not-even-the-Bible-can-be-a-shield-against-a-swinging-sword.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":105,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/he-lost-her-that-he-desired\/","url_meta":{"origin":4696,"position":3},"title":"He Lost Her That He Desired","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"19th June 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"He lost her, that he desired, A love that was not to be, Her\u2026 she married another, That she loved more, though she loved he. 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They were killed for breaking and entering, not as a combatant element. No poems written, no ballads sung Yet feted as hero's, from life's bottom rung Shot as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Birr&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Birr","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/birr\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"In this archway the three Republican prisoners were executed by Free State forces at Birr Castle","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/In-this-archway-the-three-Republican-prisoners-were-executed-by-Free-State-forces-at-Birr-Castle-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4059,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-death-of-niall-the-third-of-ireland\/","url_meta":{"origin":4696,"position":5},"title":"The Death of Niall the Third of Ireland","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th October 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Republishing this old verse of mine, part of a series. 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