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Thread #40838   Message #586769
Posted By: ThirdArkansas
06-Nov-01 - 11:49 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Who Dares to Say Forget the Past
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Dares to Say
The first stanza runs:

Who dares to say forget the past to men of Irish birth?
Who dares to say cease fighting for our place upon this Earth?
Let remembrance be our watchword and our dead we never fail.
Let their graves be to us as milestones on that blood-soaked one-way trail.

It’s a rebel poem written sometime after the Easter rebellion; last major event it mentions is the death of Cathal Brugha (Charles Burgess) in 1922, if any of that helps. Have most of it transcribed from a spoken word version on "Irish rebel Songs: The Battering Ram," problem is there are some place names I haven't been able to confirm in any of my books and a Gaelic phrase. I want to make sure I have the correct spellings and text.