School: Réidh Reamhar (roll number 12113)

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   “As the winter's wind blew wild on a”

   

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   and their roars were head for miles away.
   "what they suffered God only knows."
   III
   Their bodies were brutally burned as they lay upon the ground,
   Then left into a bog to prevent them from being found,
   For ten long days in this desolate grave unblessed by any priest
   Those martyred brothers Loughnanes by God's aid was released,
   To an old house near Kinvara the funeral marched next day,
   Under a body guard of I.R.A. who took the remains away.
   IV
   That day was a sorrowful day for their mother,
   To see the fresh blood oozing from a wound in Harry's side,
   Poor Pádraig's flesh was torn, over his eyes were boiled within,
   There was nothing left o recognize but a nose and half a chin,
   His brothers bones lay visible as cold

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eileen Kelly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Bunnaglass, Co. Galway