A tribute in poem to mark the people on 1916

They fought for us in sixteen

Brave fir agus mna

So that we would not have

to live under British law.

Make our own constitution

A “free nation once again”

Our own national anthem

Written by an Irish pen

And so one hundred years on

We can sing that song

and make all our own rules

as we march along.

They gave their lives from freedom

The people of Nineteen Sixteen

They gave us the Irish nation

The flag that bears the green.

Frank O’Reilly

Room 233

Beaumont Residential Care

Beaumont

Cork