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The Cork songwriter Mary Buckley-Clarke wrote a song about The O'Rahilly, "My Love: The O'Rahilly", in 2006.
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Click to play the song "My Love: The O'Rahilly":
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Song and lyrics reproduced here
with the kind permission of Mary Buckley-Clarke.
All rights reserved.
Unauthorised reproduction prohibited.
Lyrics by Mary Buckley-Clarke,
music by Cliff Wedgbury,
sung by Marie O'Neill.
The CD may be purchased from Mary Buckley-Clarke,
Cork,
(087) 699-5321.
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Fitzgerald called, he woke you. The day I feared had come. A loving hug, a final kiss, Then Michael, you were gone. I did not think of pleading, Allegiance made you go, With mustered guns all loaded Drove off down Herbert Road.
For who can hold a candle
I recall the days of Asgard,
They tried to spare my grieving.
In sleep I saw Slieve Luchra,
They saved your dying letter
My love, who helped to wind the clock, |

O'Connell St, Dublin in the aftermath of 1916.
Image courtesy of
Cork Multitext Project, UCC
(see here).
Used with permission.

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