School: Lurga, Patrick's Well (roll number 10317)
- Location:
- Kilcolman, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhroin
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- Unite my gallant countrymen. We must forget the past.
War has been waged upon us we have to fight at last.
This convention brought conscription after weary years of wait.
Now they want us out to Flanders, where the Germans have them bate.(II)Too many of our kith and kin, that's gone to France before[?]
Whose bodies now lie moulderng, their loss we do deplore.
They shed their blood in Flanders to defend a country.
With heavens vengeance falling on a land for sodomy.(III)They tell us that they are fighting for small nations liberty.
And nothing for poor Ireland but the yolk of slavery.
Now they want to take her sons to fight their battles through.
To lay down their lives in Flanders for a treaty breaking [?](IV)We sent the noblest statesmen the world could produce.
To fight our rights in parliament but all to little use.
They meant to do what Cromwell meant - to hell or Connaught chase.
To exterminate for ever the remainder of our race.(V)Too long we have been taunted with Lloyd George's policy.(continues on next page)
