Bless them all, bless them all,
God bless the men of the Dail
Bless deValera and Sean MacEntee
For giving us brown bread and a half ounce of tea,
Oh, they blame poor old Churchill on all,
You can’t kid the men of the Dail,
They’re bringing starvation,
To this little nation
Thank God for St Vincent De Paul

That’s how I learned it in Belfast during WW2, now I am 83 years old and I know now how De Valera and Sean MacEntee risked their lives, and went on hunger strikes to free Ireland. They fought at the time of Kevin Barry and Tom Barry and hundreds more, now revered. And I reflect how men and women who do the fighting and take the risks, should NEVER go into politics thereafter, for half the country will mock and despise.