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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=547282" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Born From the Blood of the Gael</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I learned my history of Ireland<br>From my father every Friday night, <br>When he would arrive home from Madigan’s bar<br>Reciting in song and verse of Ireland’s fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He talked of Robert Emmett<br>And sang of the brave Wolfe Tone, <br>He spoke with pride of Padraig Pearse<br>Of James Connolly, he would recite a poem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was not the Guinness that fuelled his passion, <br>For his heritage, he would never part.<br>And he told me, that I, a son of the Diaspora<br>Was an Irish bhoy at heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said that Brother Walfrid should be canonized a saint<br>For his vision and his dream.<br>For he brought faith and pride to the Glasgow Irish<br>With men proudly wearing the emerald green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A second-class citizen is how he had felt all his life <br>For being a Catholic of Irish descent.<br>And it burned his soul, the discrimination and bigotry, <br>That had encountered his up bringing in a Glasgow tenement.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He spoke of the shipyards; he had worked down by the Clyde, <br>Harassed for his faith, labeled a papist and Fenian.<br>His solace he found, in Our Lord and the Virgin Mary, <br>How he sometimes wished, he had the strength of Cúchulainn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our heritage and culture, he said, shall last forever<br>For we are born from the blood of the Gael, <br>And the next time that you walk into Parkhead, <br>Those rebel songs of old, sing, shout and yell. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Daniel McDonagh June’2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Daniel+McDonagh">Daniel McDonagh</a><div class=q>
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From my father every Friday night, 
When he would arrive home from Madigan’s bar
Reciting in song and verse of Ireland’s fight.

He talked of Robert Emmett
And sang of the brave Wolfe Tone, 
He spoke with pride ..."></div>
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