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Aug 2018
Of
Of memories of,
home made bread

Of memorised of
poems not read

Of sounds conveying,
of ancient pain

Of folklore of -
of, Fenians slain.

Of bells of bridges
of floods of tears

Of hunger strikes
of love, of fears

Of banners blowing
of, from the wind

Of wretched clouds
of never end

Of voices, of, out
numbered crowds

Of dark of silence
of mundane shrouds

Of all of you of
all you’ve done

Of, Our Republic
of one, you've won!
You can never stop the
wind that shakes the barley.

What it actually means is this.

The field of Barley represents
the thousands of British Empire
soldiers standing in rank and file.

But the invisible wind sways
and lays them off guard.

This wind was The I.R.A.
Ryan O'Leary
Written by
Ryan O'Leary  Mallow.
(Mallow.)   
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   thelonious
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