Liam de Róiste Papers Descriptive List Ref. U271

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Reference:

U271/G/009/B/011

Date:

1916

Title: Level:

Poster/Leaflet 'Poems and Songs of Easter Week' No.1

Item

Extent: Part of:

1 item, 8pp

U271/G/009/B

Scope and Content: Includes the following poems/song lyrics: Recruiting Song of the Irish Republican Army 'Who fears to speak of Easter Week? / Who dares its fate deplore?'. Easter Week 'There are murmurs in the city / There are rumours on the air. Ireland's Best 'I ponder alone this Summer Eve / And my heart grows heavy as lead'. Ireland, 1916 'Silent we stand. The iron has graven / Print of the torture deep on heart and brow'. What the Rats Came Out ' 'Brittania rules the waves! Britons never shall be Slaves!'/ We've been told the tale so often, that we've scarcely room for doubt.' To J.E.R. 'You sought , of old , an honoured place/ As Leader of the Irish race. O'Dwyer and Maxwell, ' 'Come, join me in my dirty work', wrote England's butcher bold / 'You've rebel priests within your See, who love not us I'm told. To the Memory of The O'Rahilly, 'He’s dead, alas! Peace to his gentle soul / For he was loving, kind, sincere, and true'. Line Written in Richmond Barracks Prison on the Occasion of Hearing Mass, Sunday 28th April 1916, 'O Sacred Heart, out hearts are wholly Thine / Although we come not now before thy Shrine. To the Murdered Officers of the Irish Republican Army, 'Farewell ye dead! No moan of pain/ Be Heard, nor maiden's tear be shed.

Reference:

U271/G/009/B/012

Date:

[?1916]

Title:

Leaflet, [Sinn Féin/Irish Volunteers], with poem/song, 'Who Fears to Speak of

Easter Week?' Level:

Item

Extent: Part of:

U271/G/009/B

Scope and Content: 5 verses. 'Who fears to speak of Easter Week, / Who dares its fate deplore? / The red-gold flame of Erin's fame / Confronts the world once more.....

Reference:

U271/G/009/B/013

Date:

nd [1916]

Title: Leaflet, Sinn Féin/Irish Volunteers, text of reply by Very Rev. Peter Yorke, to some strictures..[on the] leaders of the Rebellion by two priests in the Omaha diocese, America: TO YOUR PLACES, SLAVES!' Level: Item Extent: 1p Part of: U271/G/009/B Scope and Content: Partially damaged and illegible.

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