{"id":676,"date":"2007-09-23T09:38:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T09:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T09:42:34","slug":"the-dreams-of-de-valera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-dreams-of-de-valera\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dreams of De Valera"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is empty, the road, now
\nThere is no music, or sport.
\nThe young girls, beautiful,
\nAt dance, they are not.<\/p>\n

The boys, big, are not playing
\nFootball and hurling during the day,
\nAnd they are not singing the songs.
\nThere\u2019s no-one that hears it.<\/p>\n

\"Alaska<\/strong>The old people are not talking now
\nOf the Fianna to the young children,
\nAnd today they throw out
\nWhen there\u2019s a small hole in a shoe.<\/p>\n

The beautiful girls that are dancing.
\nThey are false, are not true.
\nThe road is empty tonight
\nIn the north and the west.<\/p>\n

The boys are in the tavern.
\nThey are drinking again,
\nLooking at English football,
\nSinging and shouting at the television.<\/p>\n

The old people use not their language
\nWhen they are talking to anyone.
\nThey use the English
\nAnd look into the fire.<\/p>\n

When the sun is sleeping at night
\nAnd finished for the day is its race
\nWe see the dreams of De Valera:
\nThey are false\u2026 broken\u2026 and dead.<\/p>\n

Translated from Irish Gaelic<\/a> by Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh
\nRead this poem in German<\/a>, and in Irish<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2007 Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is empty, the road, now There is no music, or sport. The young girls, beautiful, At dance, they are not. The boys, big, are not playing Football and hurling during the day, And they are not singing the songs. There\u2019s no-one that hears it. The old people are not …<\/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":[55,54,120],"tags":[947,944,945,946],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","category-non-rhyming-poems","tag-dancing-at-the-crossroads","tag-de-valera","tag-dreams-of-de-valera","tag-eamonn-de-valera","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-aU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3606,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/they-are-dancing-tonight\/","url_meta":{"origin":676,"position":0},"title":"They Are Dancing Tonight","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"12th March 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/l5F4waoLT84?t=112 They are dancing tonight, the fine women Loud is the music, beyond thinking They are out upon the mountain Vodka, by the bottle, drinking! 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