School: Lurga, Patrick's Well (roll number 10317)
- Location:
- Cill Cholmáin, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhroin
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- (continued from previous page)and patient wore from listening to Asquith's "wait and see".
It appears we should be waiting until the day of doom.
With martial law dictating, to supplement Home Rule.(VI)The Rule they always give us was the gibbet and the jail.
The battering ram and oil can for the sons of Granuaile.
The emigrant ship to take us, some foreign land to seek.
And gunboat shell to raid us as they did in Easter week.(VII)Now use your voice in one, my boys, and shout from shore to shore.
And prove it to the world you are Paddies evermore.
What we have done in Flanders, let us stop to do at home.
And we ne'er shall fight 'neath any flag unless beneath our own.(VIII)So boys remember Limerick, let it be your battle cry.
And Easter Week in Dublin, where our gallant sons did die.
God will be our commander, and he will lead us in the charge.
Then we'll face the British bullets and the tyranny of Lloyd George..
