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              OCL P29 Lennon Page 14
              IE OCL P29/14 · Part · 1921
              Part of Autograph book of John Lennon/Maggie B. Corcoran

              Verse from Internee No 832, James Donegan, No 9 Tent B Company:

              'O would the God above
              Send down a dove with wings as sharp as razors
              To cut the throat of those English dogs,
              That shot our Irish leaders'

              Also a joke from Thomas McGivinchy: 'Happy is the man who sits on a wasp's nest, for he shall rise again.'

              OCL P29 Lennon Page 16
              IE OCL P29/16 · Part · 1921
              Part of Autograph book of John Lennon/Maggie B. Corcoran

              Verse by Mícheál Ó Baoghaláin (Meath):

              'Wherever the forces of crown assemble
              Whether on land, or sea, or the air
              Strike them down O Lord
              Strike them down
              And may their bones be ground into manure
              And spread over the land to grow crops for the poor.'

              OCL P29 Lennon Page 46
              IE OCL P29/46 · Part · 11 August 1921
              Part of Autograph book of John Lennon/Maggie B. Corcoran

              Quote transcribed by Frank McGuinness (Kilbeggan), Rath Camp:

              Work Advice

              'Work my friends, is the lot of man! Man was sent into this world to earn his living by the sweat of his brow. You didn't find Adam walking about the Garden of Eden with his hands in his pockets! '

              OCL P29 Lennon Page 55
              IE OCL P29/55 · Part · 9 August 1921
              Part of Autograph book of John Lennon/Maggie B. Corcoran

              Verses transcribed Padraic Ó Briain, Rath Camp:

              They lost! But O! They conquer
              These men who their land would save
              A firing party at break of day.
              And a tasty quick-lime grave.

              But think not of them with scorn
              Nor mourn for the cause they died
              This death saved Ireland's honour
              What mattered all else beside.

              We've been told twas a failure by those that ne'er understood
              How the new born soul of Erin was baptised in martyrs' blood
              And to all who crave for freedom, as the world its
              meaning know, I give them this little story
              The story of Glorious Easter Week.

              IE OCL P31 · Item · 1918-1985

              Typescript of memoir titled ‘Do You Remember’. Recounts the life in Birr and covers the following subjects: soldiers from Birr returning from World War I (1918), the Treaty (1921), occupation of Free State Troops of ‘The Gorm' (the workhouse) in Birr (1922), burning of Crinkle Barracks (1922) and other reminiscences of life in Birr from 1930s to 1980s.

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