30th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1981 Hungerstrike.Millstreet, June 11th, Assemble at 7.45pm outside Dairygold Co-Op.
March to National Monument.
Speaker – Geno McCormack.
MacCurtain/McSwiney Republican Flute Band in Attendance.
All welcome/Fáilte roimh cách.
The above was submitted by Duhallow Sinn Féin.
Notes: Geno McCormack was one of the “Blanket Men” interred in H Blocks of Long Kesh as a political prisoner, and refused to be treated as a criminal by refusing to wear the prison uniform.
“The 5th of May”
(By Pat Menz: Toowoomba Australia – Great Grandson of Ellen Donoghue Born Millstreet 2nd Jan 1871)
Did you say a prayer to Bobby
Did you say a prayer for Ireland
Did you say a prayer for the Political Prisoners
Did you say a prayer that Ireland might be Free
Did you say a prayer to Ned Kelly
Did you remember how proudly he wore the green sash when captured at Glenrowan in the battle to free the poor
The green sash of Ireland given to Neddie when he saved a mother’s son drowning in a creek
Did you say a prayer to our Comrade who spoke out against Injustice 2000 years ago shared the dreaming of the poor and equality for all
Not all Political Prisoners die on a cross
Did you keep a spider in a jar to remind you of the hunger strikers
Young Women Young Men we were born in the Land beneath the Southern Cross
To Parents and Parent’s Parents from the Soul of Love the Gentle Isle of Green
800 years our Mother has endured 800 years of Lies
But in the end Truth always prevails
Each day I pray that day is not far away
Did you hang his picture on your bedside wall with the words underneath
“Another Martyr for Old Ireland – Another Murder for the Crown”
Did you say a prayer to Bobby
Did you say a prayer to Neddie
Did you say a prayer to Jesus
Did you say a prayer for all the Political Prisoners
Did you say a prayer that Ireland might be Free
Inspired on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the funeral of Bobby Sands – 7th May 1989 – first published in the “Irish Echo” (Australia)