[Ann Drysdale]

I nearly replied to that deleted post last night and then I thought I'd better sleep on it.

What I was hoping to convey was a deep fear of the marches and what they repesent. It is too like the paramiltary face of nationalism that has peeped through the cracks in our country recently.

Yes. Custer's liking for "Garryowen" is well-recorded. And, historically, well shouted-down.

To take this back to Ed's thread, though this is a "song of the South", so to speak, it was Thomas Moore who wrote the words for it...

Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed
But join with me each jovial blade
Come booze and sing and lend your aid
To help me with the chorus

Chorus:
Instead of spa we'll drink brown ale
And pay the reckoning on the nail
For debt no man shall go to gaol (jail)
From Garryowen in glory

We are the boys that take delight in
Smashing the Limerick lamps when lighting
Through the street like sportsters fighting
And tearing all before us

We'll break the windows, we'll break the doors
The watch knock down by threes and fours
Then let the doctors work their cures
And tinker up our bruised

We'll beat the bailiffs out of fun
We'll make the mayor and sheriffs run
We are the boys no man dares dun
If he regards a whole skin

Our hearts so stout have got us fame
For soon 'tis known from whence we came
Where'er we go they dread the name
Of Garryowen in glory

Johnny Connell's tall and straight
And in his limbs he is complete
He'll pitch a bar of any weight
From Garryowen to Thomondgate

Garryowen is gone to rack
Since Johnny Connell went to Cork
Though Darby O'Brien leapt over the dock
In spite of judge and jury


The same bit of Limerick gave us the name for the up-and-under kick that gets a Rugby side out of immediate difficulty but gains no actual ground. It's about possession.

[Quincy Lehr]

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/201...order-parades/

[Julie Steiner]

Thank you, Quince. I'm now reconsidering what I thought I knew about impeachment, too.

[David Anthony]

Normally the Orange marches are widely reported on the British news on the 12th with much focus on the violence. Nothing's been said today so hopefully peace has broken out, though more likely there's too much news to report, what with all our politicians resigning.

[David Anthony]

Love the impeachment, Julie.