Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)

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1. A Bunch of Green Memories (continued)

   

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   IV
   The Slaney may glide on through valleys so fair
   But Crosstown a treasure you hold for us there
   In Gaelic each name is inscribed on the stone,
   A fine Celtic Cross that ere long will be known
   Oh there lie six Rebels oh, there I have seen
   The thousands that gathered and knealt on the green
   From all parts of Wexford in hundreds they came
   The bands played the 'Dead March' for those ones of fame
   The fires that seemed fading were flamed up anew
   And yonder proud Wexford was plain to my view.
   V
   Her spires in the heavens towered high over all
   In triumph the told me how Cromwell did fall
   Loc Garmain its history of blood and of woe,
   By Cromwell's oppression the world may know,
   O'er centuries now vanished o'er deeds that are past
   We sometimes do think that a veil we could cast
   But one hour in Crosstown with awe there impressed

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   History Edit

   Date

   1 Iúil 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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