{"id":5234,"date":"2000-12-13T19:40:31","date_gmt":"2000-12-13T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2023-12-13T19:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:49:53","slug":"roses-lamented-long-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/roses-lamented-long-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Roses Lamented Long Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Roses<\/a>
Roses Lamented Long Gone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The issue of housing developed in an area where traditions such as Orange Walks are objectionable to the new residents is something that is still being worked on in the North of Ireland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The old woman looks upon the houses
\nWhere roses grew before
\nNow the screams of playing children
\nWhere the roses grow no more
\nAs they did in former times
\nWhen folk marched up to Drumcree
\nWithout objection for no folk lived
\nWhere now houses, not roses, we see.<\/p>\n

He who built them, tied to a chair,
\nHis house set in flame
\nBy those whose folk got the houses
\nWho attacked him without shame.
\nSuch repayment for the good works
\nSuch ingratitude it shows
\nTo the folk who lived here when there was no houses
\nWhere now no longer the roses grows.<\/p>\n

Drumcree, to us it is evocative
\nAs we see the Orange cosh weilded
\nBeing struck down on us mere Fenians
\nBy the British masses feilded.
\nPrehaps there is truth on both sides
\nStopped clocks are right twice a day…
\nBut I think more beautiful than mere roses
\nAre happy families at play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The issue of housing developed in an area where traditions such as Orange Walks are objectionable to the new residents is something that is still being worked on in the North of Ireland.<\/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":[53,55,54,20],"tags":[2529,4532,4531,1629,3021,1883,3694,1095],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","category-irelands-wars","tag-12th-of-july","tag-armagh","tag-lurgan","tag-marching-season","tag-north-of-ireland","tag-northern-ireland","tag-orange-day","tag-ulster","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1mq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":180,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/real-activists-real-risks-morocco-and-100tpc\/","url_meta":{"origin":5234,"position":0},"title":"Real Activists – Real Risks – Morocco and 100TPC","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"9th June 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Listening today to 100TPC radio, an interview of El Habib Louai, with Terri Carron and Michael Rothenberg, where he speaks of the Islamist government in Morocco, and the difficulties of protest, and even organising poetry readings such as 100 Thousand Poets for Change, brings home to me the freedoms we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Rossnowlagh parade, with Gada escort","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Orange-Order-Marches-at-Rossnowlagh.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Orange-Order-Marches-at-Rossnowlagh.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Orange-Order-Marches-at-Rossnowlagh.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Orange-Order-Marches-at-Rossnowlagh.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3711,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/cutting-old-burkes-roses\/","url_meta":{"origin":5234,"position":1},"title":"Cutting Old Burkes Roses","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"7th May 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"While out walking near Salthill a few days back, a man cutting roses from a bush outside a derelict house talked to me as I passed... Saltair in the sunshine Saltair in the rains North coast to the west coast The salt sea air remains... To remind the Northman of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Gander Around Galway"","block_context":{"text":"Gander Around Galway","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/travel-poems\/gander-around-galway\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Galway City by the Sea - looking over the Westside","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galway-City-by-the-Sea-looking-over-the-Westside.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galway-City-by-the-Sea-looking-over-the-Westside.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galway-City-by-the-Sea-looking-over-the-Westside.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galway-City-by-the-Sea-looking-over-the-Westside.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galway-City-by-the-Sea-looking-over-the-Westside.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5081,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-unlikely-rebel\/","url_meta":{"origin":5234,"position":2},"title":"The Unlikely Rebel","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"26th September 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Softly spoken, without the braggarts yell, His words echo far, the truth they tell, Bring all to their feet, in support or rage Michael D has the stage... No offense was meant and none was taken, Yet the foundations themselves were shaken As the fa\u00e7ade of Northern Ireland they want\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ireland"","block_context":{"text":"Ireland","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/ireland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/president.ie\/images\/made\/fb667366461bb66f\/pic14316_1024_683_95_s.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/president.ie\/images\/made\/fb667366461bb66f\/pic14316_1024_683_95_s.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/president.ie\/images\/made\/fb667366461bb66f\/pic14316_1024_683_95_s.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/president.ie\/images\/made\/fb667366461bb66f\/pic14316_1024_683_95_s.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3773,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/reflections-on-orange-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":5234,"position":3},"title":"Reflections on Orange Day","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th July 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"As the Orange Day celebrations passed off without much incident in the North of Ireland, an unprecedented event happened \"in Connaught\" as the local lodge went for a \"walk\" unmolested and back to their local church. The Dublin and Wicklow Orange Lodge commented that having no Parades Commission, the Republic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "1798 Rebellion"","block_context":{"text":"1798 Rebellion","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/irelands-wars\/1798-rebellion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Orange Order at Ardoyne, a flashpoint during marching season.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.rasset.ie\/000e53e1-800.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.rasset.ie\/000e53e1-800.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.rasset.ie\/000e53e1-800.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.rasset.ie\/000e53e1-800.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":167,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-wrecking-of-ballinamuck\/","url_meta":{"origin":5234,"position":4},"title":"The Wrecking of Ballinamuck","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th June 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In the years before the Famine, Greedy Lord Lorton, God damn the nyeuck* For the love of money and hatred of man Cleared the town of Ballinamuck... Levelled, all bar six houses and church left standing The latter only after a fight, To the cold, the young and old, Had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "North Longford"","block_context":{"text":"North Longford","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/north-longford\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Village of Ballinamuck in Longford, the chapels spire can be seen which stands on the site of the mud walled church that was saved from the wrecking crew.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/The-Village-of-Ballinamuck.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/The-Village-of-Ballinamuck.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/The-Village-of-Ballinamuck.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/The-Village-of-Ballinamuck.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/The-Village-of-Ballinamuck.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3664,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/being-easter-sunday-will-the-sun-dance-in-the-morning\/","url_meta":{"origin":5234,"position":5},"title":"Being Easter Sunday, Will the Sun Dance in the Morning?","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th April 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It being Easter Sunday, At the dawn, will the sun dance? Should the clouds chance to be clear This year to see I will get the chance. I for the last few have tried In my efforts have been dismayed Through work, party, and through sleep I missed the dance\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Faith"","block_context":{"text":"Faith","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/faith\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Red Dawn - A crimson sky over Ballybrit heralds a rainy day according to folklore","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Red-Dawn-A-crimson-sky-over-Ballybrit-heralds-a-rainy-day-according-to-folklore-300x165.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Red-Dawn-A-crimson-sky-over-Ballybrit-heralds-a-rainy-day-according-to-folklore-300x165.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Red-Dawn-A-crimson-sky-over-Ballybrit-heralds-a-rainy-day-according-to-folklore-300x165.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5237,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}