Missions in Ireland

The missionaries had
A men’s and women’s
Week they separated
The audience a tactic
Of hide and divide as
It was deemed not all
Should be shared by
Their congregations,
But confessions were
Given an exemption.
3 X Hail Mary 1 act C
And all is forgiven yet
Pregnant girls had to
Get on the Innis Fallen
And cross to England
With the cattle, it was
Daughter to slaughter.



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It is only a birdcall by
Boat from Ross Castle
But once you step on
Innisfallen one feels as
Though you are a million
Miles from the shore
And that I can attest to
Because I have been on
That island of isolation
And but for inducing an
Irish mist of the mind I’d
Never have survived the
Loneliness of London.