{"id":1870,"date":"2014-10-16T15:24:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2024-06-24T12:19:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:19:46","slug":"come-all-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/come-all-ye\/","title":{"rendered":"Come All Ye, a poem by Thomas Owens, 1954"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come All Ye b<\/strong>y Thomas Owens<\/strong><\/p>\n

If we were home in Ireland, but sure it’s far away,<\/p>\n

We would ramble up to Derry to pass a pleasant day,<\/p>\n

and then light-footed as a lark that bathes in morning dew,<\/p>\n

We would see the town of Donegal and the glen of Antrim too.<\/p>\n

If we were back again in Ireland to Leinster we would go,<\/p>\n

Where grows the grass of Tara beneath a court laid low,<\/p>\n

Where great King Chara ruled of old, we would touch with reverend lips,<\/p>\n

And then we would go to Dublin, and see the Liffey and the ships,<\/p>\n

‘Tis true the town of Dublin we would wander up and down,<\/p>\n

And see many places we hold in high renown.<\/p>\n

From Murphy’s house in Thomas Street where young Edward died<\/p>\n

We would go where Dad and Nan, today are lying side by side,<\/p>\n

Yes, if we were over there in Ireland ’tis old Kildare we would love to gaze<\/p>\n

And that little old thatched cabin where Dad began his days,<\/p>\n

Ah, to sit and watch and hear the little barefoot gos-ons<\/p>\n

They would thrill your heart with joy as they sing “Did your Mother Come from Ireland,”<\/p>\n

“I’ll take you Home Again Kathleen” and “Danny Boy.”<\/p>\n

If we were home in Ireland and ’tis homeland still,<\/p>\n

Although we never saw it, nor perhaps we never will<\/p>\n

We would spill the loving of our soul like roses spill their scent,<\/p>\n

From that glorious land of our desire and then we would be content.<\/p>\n

This is a poem that Dad Owens (Thomas Onions) wrote to his children – Rhode, Thomas, Albert, Pat, Bryn, Myles, Gerald, Masey, Geraldine, Kathleen, Betty – wishing that they could go to Ireland. Taken from The Evening Telegram,<\/i> 16 March 1954, page 4, St. John’s Newfoundland. Submitted by Geraldine Owens<\/p>\n

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Come All Ye by Thomas Owens If we were home in Ireland, but sure it’s far away, We would ramble up to Derry to pass a pleasant day, and then light-footed as a lark that bathes in morning dew, We would see the town of Donegal and the glen of Antrim too. If we were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogical-resources"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}