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Ireland, Mother Ireland, with your freedom loving sons,
Did your daughters run and hide at the sound of guns?
Or did they have some part in the fight
And why does everybody try to keep them out of sight?
For they sing of the Men of the West
And the Boys of Wexford too.
Were there no women living round those parts;
Tell me, what did they do? 2/2#InternationalWomensDay
#GenderEquality
#ReproductiveRights
#Ireland
#IrishHistory
#Poetry
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‘Invisible Women’
(by Brian Moore)The singer sings a rebel song
and everybody sings along.
Just one thing I’ll never understand:
Every damn rebel seems to be a man.
For he sings of the Bold Fenian Men
And the Boys of the Old Brigade.
What about the women who stood there too
“When history was made”? 1/2#InternationalWomensDay
#GenderEquality
#ReproductiveRights
#Ireland
#IrishHistory
#Poetry
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@ConorMahood Irish novelist #BrianMoore's 1997 #BlackRobe about the French colonisation/stealing of Canada from native peoples with aid of #CatholicPriests may seem culturally appropriative these days (I can't remember as I read it 25 years ago), but if memory serves he tried hard to avoid that awful thing of making the Algonquins speak in some pigeon-style like film and TV still do today--as if English is the only language (which happened in IRL too)...
