Stamping feet and gleaming buttons,
standing neat for bugle summons.
Medals, badges, flags displayed
when Ireland celebrates her brave.
Silence near and giddy young ones,
violent means of history's reruns.
Brass band bound by bowed berets
when Ireland celebrates her brave.
Speakers keep and gathered listen,
Sunday street set for revision.
A half-mast moment, proud and grave
when Ireland celebrates her brave.
(On Easter Monday (28/03/2016) we marked the centenary of Ireland's Easter Rising. However, today, 24/04/2016, is the calendar centenary. I really enjoyed watching the Dublin celebrations on TV at Easter and loved the ceremony in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford today.)
