{"id":489,"date":"2014-09-11T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2014-09-11T20:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T20:30:23","slug":"long-may-horses-shit-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/long-may-horses-shit-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Long May Horses Shit the Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mXJVfrCSgrM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Horses and ponies, dealers and wheelers<br \/>\nThe street is a farmyard for a day&#8230;<br \/>\nDreamers and schemers, thinkers and drinkers<br \/>\nEveryman is a boy at his play&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some folk do not like it, being not from the land<br \/>\nThink the smell and the droppings unsightly<br \/>\nForget from the farm comes all life and its charm<br \/>\nCan be seen in the old men stepping sprightly<br \/>\nAmong strong steeds for whom the dealers heart bleeds<br \/>\nAs he settles a deal with a spit on the palm of the hand<br \/>\nWhy is it today we want to shut it away<br \/>\nLose a tradition of our native land?<\/p>\n<p>I remember as a youth horses outside our door<br \/>\nYoung men on ponies galloping wild up the hill<br \/>\nWe felt no fear of horses or the folk here<br \/>\nWe felt the pulse of life and the thrill<br \/>\nBut folk bring in laws, so with fees we grease paws<br \/>\nOf officials who tell us its for our own good<br \/>\nWhat helped us get by for 400 years they now deny<br \/>\nThey say stop the fair now we should.<\/p>\n<p>Who are these faces in suits who profess as truths<br \/>\nThe lies they throw at us there?<br \/>\nLong may it live, or I&#8217;ll never forgive<br \/>\nThe hard hearts who try to kill Banagher horse fair.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-491\" style=\"width: 927px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Banagher-Fair-at-Babsers-House.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-491\" src=\"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Banagher-Fair-at-Babsers-House.jpg\" alt=\"Banagher Fair, thats our house (Babser Hynse's) in the background, and the porch my dad built.\" width=\"927\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Banagher-Fair-at-Babsers-House.jpg 927w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Banagher-Fair-at-Babsers-House-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banagher Fair, thats our house (Babser Hynse&#8217;s) in the background, and the porch my dad built. Pic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/banagherdave\">Dave Boylan<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horses and ponies, dealers and wheelers The street is a farmyard for a day&#8230; Dreamers and schemers, thinkers and drinkers Everyman is a boy at his play&#8230; Some folk do not like it, being not from the land Think the smell and the droppings unsightly Forget from the farm comes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[439],"tags":[721,720,2360,718,723,719,722,779,780,781],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banagher","tag-babser-hynes","tag-babsers","tag-banagher","tag-banagher-horse-fair","tag-banagher-on-the-shannon","tag-horse-fair","tag-horse-fair-at-banagher","tag-horse-fairs-of-ireland","tag-irish-horse-fairs","tag-irish-traveller","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-7T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1998,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/that-beats-banagher\/","url_meta":{"origin":489,"position":0},"title":"That Beats Banagher","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"30th June 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"They want the horse fair banished from the streets to a field Where they believe all horses should be Their spirit contained, their owners constrained Not on the streets to walk with their owners free To deal with the buyers, who bargain with the sellers As the horses stand by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Banagher&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Banagher","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/banagher\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Youths enjoying Banagher Horse Fair in 2010","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Banagher-Horse-Fair-2010.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Banagher-Horse-Fair-2010.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Banagher-Horse-Fair-2010.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Banagher-Horse-Fair-2010.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":642,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/just-doing-our-job\/","url_meta":{"origin":489,"position":1},"title":"Just Doing Our Job","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"21st September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The most farcical part of the attempted shut down of Banagher fair, was when John Boy Dolan got cautioned for selling HENS... when the town is awash with drugs! 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Bargained, argued, deals were struck Settled by spit on the hand More failed to agree price both thought was fair As each one held his stand. Times\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Banagher&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Banagher","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/banagher\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The late Tom Moran of Lusmagh","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The-late-Tom-Moran-of-Lusmagh.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":601,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/streets-of-shame-in-2014-but-banagher-horse-fair-prevails\/","url_meta":{"origin":489,"position":3},"title":"Streets of Shame in 2014 &#8211; But Banagher Horse Fair Prevails","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It was a scene of shame for the Garda\u00ed in Banagher this past weekend, as on the the Saturday, en force they arrived, with Revenue men and Dept. of Agriculture personnel and turned away visiting people from Banagher, telling them that there was no horse fair. 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