Ballad for Kevin Barry
A republican ballad Sheet: 'Ballad for Kevin Barry', and 'Ballad of Biddy O'Loughlin / Air: "The Night before Larry was stretched"' by Michael Scott. The sheets are folded and printed on one side only.
Details
- Level of description
- Item
- Date
- c.1925
- Reference
- 31
- Extent and medium
- Printed; 21cm x 27 cm; 2 pp
- Scope and content
- A republican ballad Sheet: 'Ballad for Kevin Barry', and 'Ballad of Biddy O'Loughlin / Air: "The Night before Larry was stretched"' by Michael Scott. The sheets are folded and printed on one side only.
- General note
- 'Ballad for Kevin Barry': a poem beginning 'At a time when trees of autumn' was published in the 'Green and gold: a magazine of fiction, etc.' , V, No. 19 (June-Aug.1925), p. 132. See http://sources.nli.ie/Record/PS_UR_006106
- Repository
- Irish Capuchin Archives
- Context
- Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > Pamphlets, Cartoons and Publicity Material > 1916 Rising and War of Independence
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- Rights
- Copyright held by the respective institution. Contact the archive for reproduction permissions.
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Extracted Mentions
People, places, and terms identified via handwriting recognition and named entity recognition.
Sample passages
- Commades , these , of Kevin Barry .
- While they haltered Kevin Barry .
- To the young lad , Kevin Barry .
Full Transcript (OCR, 1 pages)
Machine-generated OCR transcript. Handwritten material may contain recognition errors.
Page 1
With their eyes of love and truth Round the entry Pillar streeling Boys as little as Plato's Greeks You'd have said the feet of Jesus Cabbages and ivory lecks . Fended with a scornful party From the Liffey's estuary Smouldered on the salty docks , Mountain winds came singing down , Victory of Sanothrace . High disdain has youth for pity Youth is gay in passion's hour- Gleaming to the gallows place , Sparrows jerred the telling ducks , Commades , these , of Kevin Barry . swinging at the grallows' head . Laughed and cursed at women wheeling Hung on shrine or sanctuary , And a shining host of youth While they haltered Kevin Barry . Gay to see old Satan's thrust swinging fairly as a flower To the young lad , Kevin Barry . Hell-fire in an Irish town . Seagulls , rapiers of light , winged Pigeons flushed and cinerary Seagulls sprayed the gallows tree Gay to see how youth had baffled Made the city wild and starry Had walked round about the gaol . Dublin hills and Dublin city He'd had eighteen years to tread Who will keep for Kevin Barry ? Crying of the courteous sea Sang the winds round Kevin Barry . Bled along grey streets and pale : " Dust returns unto star-dust " ! From the Three Rock to the scaffold Red leaves scattered by the breezes Death came soaring like the white-winged Michael Scot Barry .