- IE OCL P29/95
- Parte
- 27 November 1930
Verse transcribed by Maggie Corcoran ('Barmaid') and dedicated to Miss M. E. Lennon, at Harbour St Tullamore.
Verse transcribed by Maggie Corcoran ('Barmaid') and dedicated to Miss M. E. Lennon, at Harbour St Tullamore.
Popular verse transcribed by Becky O'Reilly.
Verse by Thomas Davis transcribed by Edmond Hourigan (Cork City), Tintown No. 3 Camp:
'We must not fail, we must not fail,
However fraud or force assail,
By Honour, Pride and policy
By Heaven, itself we must be free.'
Note by Bob Lennon, Killeenmore, Killeigh:
'A lonely spot. I wish I was here but not a lone of course'
Verse by Pádraig Ó Treasaigh (Laois):
'We meet again, the master and the student
The one a sadder but a wiser man, the other still imprudent
But age and youth, have one same thought
That Erin's soul shall ne'er be bought.
Soon may her Freedom's star arise
And soon may be her foe's demise.
Then you and I from fetters free
Shall haste to Leix and Offaly.
But we together shall come again
As free, unfettered, unshackled men.
And then we'll fill and quaff the glass
That ours and Erin's dawn has come at last.'
Signature of Mícheál Ó Fearghail (Galway)
Verse from internee No 1065, Joseph Lee, Hut 26:
'I wished I was a little Duck
All swimming on a lake
And I beside you swimming too
A faithful little drake.'
Verse from Internee No 832, James Donegan, No 9 Tent B Company:
'O would the God above
Send down a dove with wings as sharp as razors
To cut the throat of those English dogs,
That shot our Irish leaders'
Also a joke from Thomas McGivinchy: 'Happy is the man who sits on a wasp's nest, for he shall rise again.'
Verse transcribed by Internee 1537, D Company, Hut 31, Patrick J. Daly (Tullamore, Offaly):
'Lloyd George no doubt when his life ebbs out
Will ride in a fiery chariot
He will sit in state on a red hot plate
'Twixt the Devil and Judas Iscariot
Annanias that day to the Devil will say
My Presidency here has failed
So move up higher
Away from the fire
And make room for the liar from Wales.'
Unfinished entry by John Conroy.