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Subject: ARMY - IRELAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD; OR, THE BURSTING OF THE GUNS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Sarsfield rode out the dutch to rout
Last Line: Was echoed from dungannon.
Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan


CLARE'S DRAGOONS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Vive la! For ireland's wrong
Last Line: And the shamrock shine for ever new!
Subject(s): Army - Ireland; War


THE BATTLE EVE OF THE BRIGADE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mess-tent is full, and the glasses are set
Last Line: Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the irish brigade.
Subject(s): Army - Ireland


THE DEATH OF SARSFIELD; A CHAUNT OF THE BRIGADE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sarsfield has sailed from limerick town
Last Line: When we chase the foe from our native land!
Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl Of Lucan


THE FLOWER OF FINAE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright red is the sun on the waves of lough sheelin
Last Line: This nun is poor eily, the flower of finae.
Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Death; Finae, Ireland; Nuns; Dead, The


THE SUPRISE OF CREMONA (1702), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From milan to cremona duke villeroy rode
Last Line: "macdonnell and mahony fighting for me."
Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Cremona, Battle Of (1702)


TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there
Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements