The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159117   Message #3768717
Posted By: Thompson
28-Jan-16 - 05:41 AM
Thread Name: Songs about Sean MacDiarmada/Sean McDermott
Subject: RE: Sean MacDiarmada/Sean McDermott
You're joking! The second verse is the strongest!

Then on came Larkin in nineteen thirteen
A mighty man with a mighty tongue
The voice of labour, the voice of justice
And he was gifted and he was young
God sent Larkin in nineteen thirteen
A labouring man with a Union tongue
He raised the worker and gave him courage
He was the hero, the worker's son.

It very effectively shows how the 1913 Lockout, in which the half-starved workers of Dublin were locked out by their bullying employers, and the political groups - nationalists, leftists, feminists - were drawn together to feed the children and support the workers, the conjunction leading three years later to the 1916 Rising.