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1. Poem Made about the Shooting of Jim Walshe by the Free State Soldiers in Mountfalvey, Scartaglen, Co. Kerry (continued)

   

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   He and his fellow comrades on that eventful day. Were taken out as hostages, by the soldiers of the State For a single special torture, that youth of bravery His cross he bore like his Saviour of yoer On the Summit of Mountfalvey 5. His broken hearted Mother and his sisters young and fair Lay dying in their homestead as the boy was murdered there. His old, aged father came next day, his homid to see And to carry his darling home to rest, from The Summit of Mountfalvey. 6. May his soul go forth like a guiding star, where all are brave and true. May freedom, peace, and prosperity crown Ireland's faithful few Our Saviour died for to save mankind on the summit of Calvary But Jim Walsh died for Ireland's right On the Summit of Mountfalvey.

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