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| Searching... Subject: IRELAND - REBELLIONS Matches Found: 113 A RALLY FOR IRELAND (MAY, 1689), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shout it out, till it ring Last Line: Fight till yourselves or your foemen are slain! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions A SONG FOR THE IRISH MILITIA, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tribune's tongue and poet's pen Last Line: A soldier's death, so ireland's free! Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty ANSEO, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When the master was calling the roll Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia ANSEO, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the master was calling the roll Last Line: And raise their hands %as their names occurred Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia ARBOUR HILL, by ROBERT EMMET Poem Source First Line: No rising column marks the spot Last Line: These waft their fame to heaven Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BATTLE OF OVIDSTOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh mary, get my coat of green Last Line: And set old ireland free Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BATTLE OF VINEGAR HILL, by PATRICK F. KAVANAGH Poem Source First Line: Proud marched the british army, in scarlet and in gold Last Line: And shed their blood in guilty strife for any king or crown Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BESSIE GREY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If through killinchy's woods and vales Last Line: Their mingled blood is flowing Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BILLY BYRNE OF BALLYMANUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was in the year of ninety-nine, we had reason to complain Last Line: Who stood upright for ireland's right and fought for liberty Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BODENSTOWN, by MAEVE CAVANAGH MCDOWELL Poem Source First Line: The lush grass hides forgotten graves Last Line: Of him who slumbers there Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BOLD BELFAST SHOEMAKER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you true born irishmen, where-ever you may be Last Line: I would make them fly before me like an arrow from a bow Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BOLD ROBERT EMMET, by THOMAS MAGUIRE Poem Source First Line: The struggle is over, the boys are defeated Last Line: A hero I lived and a hero I'll die Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Ireland - Rebellions BOOLAVOGUE, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At boolavogue, as the sun was setting Last Line: The cause that called you may call to-morrow %in another fight for the green again Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BOYS OF CROGHAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You loyal-hearted irishmen I hope you will draw near Last Line: For afeared like us he'd have you sent far from your native land Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BOYS OF WEXFORD, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In comes the captain's daughter, the captain of the yeos Last Line: We're ready for another fight, and love our country still! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BUTCHER'S DOZEN: A LESSON FOR THE OCTAVE OF WIDGERY, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I went with anger at my heel Last Line: In silent grief from hill to hill Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions BY MEMORY INSPIRED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "by memory inspired, and love of country fired" Last Line: Here's the memory of the heroes that are gone! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions;mourning; Bereavement CROMWELL, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the celebrated carved misericords Last Line: And just outside the door %the swords Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; War CROPPIES LIE DOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We soldiers of erin, so proud of the name Last Line: Down, down, down, croppies lie down Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions CROPPY BOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was early, early, all in the spring Last Line: Just drop a tear for the croppy boy Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions DE GROVES OF DE POOL, by RICHARD ALFRED MILLIKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now de war, dearest nancy, is ended Last Line: Dat lives in de groves of de pool Alternate Author Name(s): Milliken, Richard Alfred Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions DIRGE OF RORY O'MORE; 1642, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the sea-saddened valley at evening's decline Last Line: Rolls the drige of thy last and thy bravest--o'more! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; O'more, Rory (1620-1652) DONEGORE HILL, by JAMES ORR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dew draps wet the fiels o' braird Last Line: Will act like donegore men %on any day Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Ballycarry Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions DUNLAVIN GREEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the year of seventeen ninety-eight Last Line: For the lose of his own dear comrades who died on the green Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions DYING SOLDIER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mother eire I have walked with you Last Line: I know, will seek from god my rest Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions EASTER 1916, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have met them at close of day Last Line: A terrible beauty is born. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Imagination; Ireland - Rebellions; Vision; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Goone, Maud (1866-1953); Socialism; The Resurrection; Fancy EDWARD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What plaintive sounds strike on my ear! Last Line: Revenge! Revenge! For edward's kill'd Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions ERIN [EIRE], by WILLIAM DRENNAN Poem Text First Line: When erin [eire] first rose from the dark-swelling flood Last Line: Rise -- arch of the ocean, and queen of the west! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions FATHER MURPHY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you warriors and renowned nobles Last Line: For every man has a pike and gun Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions FONTENOY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice, at the huts of fontenoy, the english column failed Last Line: Fought and won! Variant Title(s): Battle Of Fontenoy Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745) (1745); Ireland - Rebellions FONTENOY, 1745: 1. BEFORE THE BATTLE: NIGHT, by EMILY LAWLESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bad the march, the weary march, beneath these alien skies Last Line: For faith, and fame, and honour, and the ruined hearthes of clare. Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty FONTENOY, 1745: 2. AFTER THE BATTLE, EARLY DAWN, CLARE COAST, by EMILY LAWLESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary mother, shield us! Say, what men are ye Last Line: "home to corca bascinn, in the morning light." Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty FORGET NOT THE FIELD, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forget not the field where they perish'd Last Line: On liberty's ruins to fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions GENERAL MUNROE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My name is george campbell. At the age of eighteen Last Line: Brave emmet, fitzgerald, and general munroe Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions GENERAL WONDER IN OUR LAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In one great general peal Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions HENRY JOY MCCRACKEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was on the belfast mountains I heard a maid complain Last Line: The rebel wind shrieks freedom above her weary head Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions IN MEMORY OF CONSTANCE MARKIEWICZ, by PATRICIA BEER Poem Source First Line: The kind of woman that men poets Last Line: And shrill, but had a longer funeral %procession than most of us will have Subject(s): Connolly, James (1868-1916); Ireland - Rebellions; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879-1916) INDEPENDENT IRISH PARLIAMENT, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dazzling gleam of evanescent glory Last Line: The barren strand of slavery's shore was seen Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions KELLY OF KILLANNE, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's the news? What's the news? O my bold shelmalier Last Line: Glory o! To mount leinster's own darling and pride-- %dauntless kelly, the boy from killanne! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions LAMENT FOR GRATTAN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shall the harp then be silent, when he who first gave Last Line: Of the wisest, the bravest, the best of mankind! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions LAMENTATIONS OF PATRICK BRADY, OR, THE HEROES OF NINETY-EIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye true born heroes I hope you will now lend an ear Last Line: You'll pray for pat brady, the hero of '98 Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions LIBERTY TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was the year of '93 Last Line: Would be the cry of every nation Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MAN FROM GOD KNOWS WHERE, by FLORENCE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Into our townlan', on a night of snow Last Line: Was the man from god-knows-where! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions ME AND YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Were you in killala Last Line: That was on croagh patrick Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 1. ANCESTRAL HOUSES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns Last Line: Consider most to magnify, or to bless, %but take our greatness with our bitterness? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): My House Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 2. MY HOUSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower Last Line: To exalt a lonely mind, %befitting emblems of adversity Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): My Hous Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two heavy trestles, and a board Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 3. MY TABLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two heavy trestles, and a board Last Line: Had waking wits; it seemed %juno's peacock screamed Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having inherited a vigorous mind Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 4. MY DESCENDANTS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Having inherited a vigorous mind Last Line: These stones remain their monument and mine Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An affable irregular, / a heavily built falstaffian man Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Soldiers MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 5. THE ROAD AT MY DOOR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An affable irregular, %a heavily built falstaffian man Last Line: And turn towards my chamber, caught %in the cold snows of a dream Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Soldiers MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bees build in the crevices Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 6. THE STARE'S NEST, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bees build in the crevices Last Line: Come build in the empty house of the stare Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Freemasons; Hate; Ireland - Rebellions; Masonic Societies MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone Last Line: Suffice the ageing man as once the growing boy Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Freemasons; Hate; Ireland - Rebellions MEMORY OF THE IRISH DEAD, by JOHN KELLS INGRAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who fears to speak of ninety-eight? Last Line: Like those of ninety-eight! Variant Title(s): The Men Of 'ninety-eight;the Memory Of The Dead Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland; Ireland - Rebellions; Patriotism; Liberty; Irish MEN OF NINETY-EIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A hundred years have passed and gone since irishmen, they stood Last Line: Those brave united irishmen who died in ninety-eight Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MICHAEL BOYLAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you worthy members, your attention now I pray Last Line: Michael boylan is my name, and all good christians pray for me Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MICHAEL DWYER (1), by TIMOTHY DANIEL (DONILL) SULLIVAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At length brave michael dwyer and his undaunted men Last Line: For those, his gallant comrades, which died in wild immal Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, Timothy Daniel Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MICHAEL DWYER (2), by TIMOTHY DANIEL (DONILL) SULLIVAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soldiers searched the valley, and towards the dawn of day Last Line: For these, his gallant comrades, which died in wild immal Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, Timothy Daniel Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions MOUNTAIN MEN, by WILLIAM ROONEY Poem Source First Line: Did you mark e'er a smoke-drift go sailing Last Line: We'll keep the old cause living still Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions NATIVE SWORDS; A VOLUNTEER SONG, JULY 1, 1792, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've bent too long to braggart wrong Last Line: Has native swords to guard it. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions O, BREATHE NOT HIS NAME!, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, breathe not his name! Let it sleep in the shade Last Line: Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Oh! Breathe Not His Name Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Ireland - Rebellions; Nature ORANGE LILLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My dear orange brothers, have you heard of the news Last Line: Those freebooters ere long with the dead shall be numberedy Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions ORANGE YEOMANRY OF '98, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am an humble orangeman Last Line: Who fought in ninety-eight! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions PATRIOT MAID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: An irish girl in heart and soul Last Line: And raise the true and brave Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions PATRIOT MOTHER, by EVA MARY KELLY Poem Source First Line: Come, tell us the name of the rebelly crew Last Line: As the heart of the martyr that hangs from it here Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions PRIEST OF ADDERGOOL, by WILLIAM ROONEY Poem Source First Line: There's someone at the window. Tap! Tap! Tap anew Last Line: Of all that trod that pathway and showed the way to die! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions PRIESTS OF '98, by J. M. FURLONG Poem Source First Line: The story of our native land, from weary age to age Last Line: To feed it with their own heart's blood-the priests of ninety-eight Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions RATHANGAN'S EDWARD MOLLOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What use in delaying for vengeance to strike? Last Line: For the failure and fate of brave edward molloy Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions REBEL MOTHER'S LULLABY, by SHANE LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, rest to the morrow, for many the sorrow Last Line: Lennavan mo. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions REBELLION OF 1798, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The ruthless fitzgerald stepp'd forward to rule Last Line: So down, down, the croppies fell down Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions RIGHTS OF MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I speak in candour, one night in slumber Last Line: He prayed success for the rights of man Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions RISING OF THE MOON, by JOHN KEEGAN CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Then, tell me, sean o'farrell, tell me why you hurry so? Last Line: Who would follow in their footsteps at the rising of the moon Alternate Author Name(s): Leo Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions RODY MCCORLEY, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! See the fleet-foot host of men Last Line: On the bridge of toome to-day Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions RODY MCCORLEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hero now I speak of, he was proper tall and straight Last Line: Till michael sounds his trumpet loud, and says ye dead arise Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions ROUSE HIBERNIANS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rouse, hibernians, from your slumbers! Last Line: That have come to set us free! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SEAN-BHEAN BHOCHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! The french are on the sea, says the sean-bhean bhocht Last Line: Then hurrah for liberty! Says the sean-bhean bhocht Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SEPTEMBER 1913, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What need you, being come to sense Last Line: They're with o'leary in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; O'leary, John (1830-1907); Patriotism SHANE'S HEAD, by JOHN SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: Is it thus, o shane the haughty! Shane the valiant! That we meet Last Line: In search of some o'neill, through whom to throb its hate again. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; O'neill, Shane (1530-1567) SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps Last Line: From her own loved island of sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Curran, Sarah; Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Ireland - Rebellions; Love SIXTEEN DEAD MEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! In the still night. Who goes there? Last Line: "guard her unconquered soul, strong in their death." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland - Rebellions; Heroes; Heroines SIXTEEN DEAD MEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O but we talked at large before Last Line: That converse bone to bone? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SONG OF PROSPEROUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the twenty-fourth of may, at the dawning of the day Last Line: Long may they live and reign over bloody tyranny Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SONG OF THE NORTH, by BRIAN O'HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: I sing a song of the northern land Last Line: At northern firesides-in ireland free! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SONG OF THE VOLUNTEERS OF 1782, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah! 'tis done - our freedom's won Last Line: Hurrah for the volunteers! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SONG OF TONE, by BRIAN O'HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: No craven dirge of sorrow Last Line: Of our own unconquered tone! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SWEET COUNTY WEXFORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As they from gorey set out that morning Last Line: But on such cowards great slaughter made Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions SWINISH MULTITUDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me the man whose dauntless soul Last Line: For this we dare to die Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE BATTLE OF LIMERICK (AUGUST 27, 1690), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, hurrah! For the men, who, when danger is nigh Last Line: As the battle of luimneach linn-ghlas. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Limerick, Battle Of (1690) THE BROTHERS: HENRY AND JOHN SHEARS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight; falls the lamp-light dull and sickly Last Line: Or die, if we can but live as slaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE CROPPY BOY: (A BALLAD OF '98), by WILLIAM B. MCBURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good men and true! In this house who dwell Last Line: Breathe a prayer and a tear for the croppy boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Malone, Carroll Subject(s): Deception; Ireland - Rebellions THE DIRGE OF DESMOND, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rush, dark dirge, o'er hills of erin! Woe for desmond's name and race! Last Line: The man shall live who fought for god; the man who for his country died. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Lament THE DUNGANNON CONVENTION (1782), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The church of dungannon is full to the floor Last Line: She surrender the guns of her brave volunteers! Subject(s): Dungannon, Ireland; Ireland - Rebellions THE ENIGMA, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale victims, where is your fatherland? Last Line: And save or avenge your fatherland! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE IRISH RAPPAREES; A PEASANT BALLAD OF 1691, by CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Righ shemus he has gone to france, and left his crown behind Last Line: The men that rode at sarsfield's side, the roving rapparees! Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty THE MEN OF 'EIGHTY-TWO, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To rend a cruel chain Last Line: Our freedom! In a cruisgin lan! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE WAKE OF WILLIAM ORR, by WILLIAM DRENNAN Poem Text First Line: Here our murdered brother lies Last Line: The day is come -- arise! -- arise! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text First Line: I sat within the valley green Last Line: The wind that shakes the barley! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions THE YEAR OF REVOLUTIONS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your pale faces, ye children of sorrow Last Line: Then patriots, heroes, strike! God for our land! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Europe; Ireland - Rebellions; Revolutions THREE FLOWERS, by NORMAN G. REDDIN Poem Source First Line: One time when walking down a lane Last Line: Though all the world should fall Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions TO A SHADE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you have revisited the town, thin shade Last Line: Away, away! You are safer in the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ghosts; Ireland - Rebellions; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891); Supernatural TONE'S GRAVE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave Last Line: Tili irelani, a nation, can euild him a tomb. Subject(s): Graves; Ireland - Rebellions; Nationalism - Ireland; Tone, Theobald Wolfe (1763-1798); Tombs; Tombstones TREE OF LIBERTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sons of hibernia, attend to my song Last Line: Derry down, down, traitors bow down Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions TWENTY MEN FROM DUBLIN TOWN, by ARTHUR GRIFFITH Poem Source Last Line: Eire slainte geal go brath! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions UNION, by SLIABH CUILINN Poem Source First Line: How did they pass the union? Last Line: Alone our hearts shall blind! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions WEARING OF THE GREEN, by DION BOUCICAULT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh then paddy dear, and did you hear the news that's goin' around? Last Line: My native land, I cannot stand, for wearing of the green Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions WEEP! GALLIA WEEP!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Weep! Gallia weep! In sorrow droop thy head Last Line: And make thy monument each patriot's heart Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions WOLFE TONE, by ALICE MILLIGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first storm of winter blew high, blew high Last Line: This grave is forgotten by irishmen Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions YOUNG WOLFE TONE, by FELIMY FIDILEIR Poem Source First Line: Where on the skyline mucklish lies Last Line: That honour young wolfe tone Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions |
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