REMEMBERANCE 1798-1938

Leinster Leader 10 September 1938

REMEMBERANCE 1798-1938

When hiring knaves and cringing slaves

    Despised the name of liberty.

When Erin wept, whilst tyrants kept

    Her bound in chains of slavery.

Who chanted then the glad refrain,

    Come all true men and rally. 

From verdant vales and wooded dales,

   From mountain, plain and valley

Who marched along with lilting song.

   Undaunted to their fate,

Who fought and died with many pride

    The men of ninety-eight.

From Baltinglass to Tyrellspass,

   Arose good men and true,

From Gorey town to County Down,

   From old Cill Dara too.

They fought for right, no pen can slight

   Their grand heroic deeds.

No tongue can tell how true and well

    They planted freedom’s seeds.

We’re free to-day, and destiny

    Must shape our future fate.

So let us pray each passing day,

    For the men of ninety-eight 

                                                 J.DOYLE