{"id":945,"date":"2013-04-25T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2014-10-25T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T17:22:31","slug":"no-more-she-roars-but-her-people-do-in-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-more-she-roars-but-her-people-do-in-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"No More She Roars, But Her People Do, In Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2407\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2407\" alt=\"Drumlish in County Longford in Ireland in more proserous times during the Celtic Tiger era\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Drumlish-in-County-Longford-in-Ireland-in-more-proserous-times-during-the-Celtic-Tiger-era-1024x299.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"181\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drumlish in County Longford in Ireland in more prosperous times during the Celtic Tiger era.<br \/>Monument to leaders of the Land League in the late 19th century erected by townspeople during Celtic tiger era, before its collapse handed our land and homes to another foreign power.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No more she roars, the Tigeress of the Celts,<br \/>\nWho brave took on the Capitalists jungle there and won,<br \/>\nWe thought ourselves warriors on the worlds stage<br \/>\nEach man a Financial Setanta, the battle won.<br \/>\nThe battle was far from won, the tide it turned,<br \/>\nThe warrior wins who can survive that fray,<br \/>\nOurs did not, now sulks, and licks its wounds<br \/>\nWhimpering its alive to fight another day.<\/p>\n<p>Another foreign power rapes our land,<br \/>\nAs monuments we build to honour those before<br \/>\nWho fought, our land and homes to free,<br \/>\nSo our children know not colonialism any more.<\/p>\n<p>But us, we fools!!! We gambled what they too us gave,<br \/>\nOn the Roulette wheel everything we had, willfully tossed&#8230;<br \/>\nWilful waste leads to woeful want, its true whats said&#8230;<br \/>\nWoe to the conquored, us who the gamble lost!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No more she roars, the Tigeress of the Celts, Who brave took on the Capitalists jungle there and won, We thought ourselves warriors on the worlds stage Each man a Financial Setanta, the battle won. The battle was far from won, the tide it turned, The warrior wins who can &#8230;<\/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":[571],"tags":[663,1132,1131,1133],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","tag-austerity-2","tag-banking-crisis","tag-homestead","tag-land-league","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-ff","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2645,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/celtic-tiger-was-not-by-poets-built\/","url_meta":{"origin":945,"position":0},"title":"Celtic Tiger was Not By Poets Built","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th April 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"You cant build a house with words, you know - Chris McCormack Houses are not by words built They are by developers though Who broke this country by their greed Not so very long ago. 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