{"id":5056,"date":"2021-09-13T01:32:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T00:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2021-09-13T01:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T00:33:20","slug":"hope-is-a-horse-fair-in-banagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/hope-is-a-horse-fair-in-banagher\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope is a Horse Fair in Banagher"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D238908494908882%26set%3Da.119221836877549%26type%3D3%26av%3D802469556481860%26eav%3DAfbRWqNFKaAhD-tAcNRqE4-3sErTUXOYjEdECrPBYR6jY5vmgZuGicCtFCb_1xYzxKk&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOur old house, Babser Hynses on the right, is boarded up now. But at least its not torn down, as the developers who are selling it wanted to do. It needs someone with vision, know how, and a few quid to bring it back to its former glory. It has seen a few horse fairs, may it see many more!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some had horses and donkeys<br \/>\nSomeone had a pony<br \/>\nThere was yarns and stories<br \/>\nSome spoke baloney&#8230;<br \/>\nSome bargained and deals struck<br \/>\nMore walked away<br \/>\nThe craic and the story<br \/>\nOf Banagher Fair Day<\/p>\n<p>COVID was present<br \/>\nIn the back of the mind:<br \/>\nWays to make all comfortable<br \/>\nEveryone did find.<br \/>\nIt was like the old days<br \/>\nFolk from all sorts of places<br \/>\nThe length of the island,<br \/>\nBut some missing faces&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>These have been strange times<br \/>\nAn odd couple of years,<br \/>\nBut now we venture out<br \/>\nFace down our fears<br \/>\nWe will talk of these times<br \/>\nIn days yet to be<br \/>\nWhen we were happy again<br \/>\nEach other to see.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is a fair day<br \/>\nWhen friends we meet<br \/>\nTo banter and bargain<br \/>\nOn Banagher&#8217;s Main Street.<br \/>\nBabser&#8217;s windows are boarded up (1)<br \/>\nLike many in town<br \/>\nBut at least the developers gave up<br \/>\nOn pulling it down.<\/p>\n<p>Outside its walls and its windows<br \/>\nFor two hundred years or more<br \/>\nHorses each year have been traded:<br \/>\nBe be for at least as much more.<br \/>\nThrough world wars and rebellions<br \/>\nCivil wars, strife and plagues too<br \/>\nThe chain of history, hope and future<br \/>\nShines strong and shines true!<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Glossary<\/strong><br \/>\n(1) Babser Hynes is the house I grew up in. There was plans to demolish it, thankfully they didnt come true!<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our old house, Babser Hynses on the right, is boarded up now. But at least its not torn down, as the developers who are selling it wanted to do. It needs someone with vision, know how, and a few quid to bring it back to its former glory. It has &#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":[439,22,3429],"tags":[718,4391,4278,2175,525,719,4464,4463],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banagher","category-family-stories","category-lesser-known-ireland","tag-banagher-horse-fair","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-covid19","tag-fear","tag-hope","tag-horse-fair","tag-masks","tag-pandemic","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1jy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":843,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/more-than-just-another-memory\/","url_meta":{"origin":5056,"position":0},"title":"More Than Just Another Memory","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"8th October 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"To ride a horse is to ride the sky, Someone once said somewhere... 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