Women of '98

Women of 'Ninety-Eight

THEY tell a beautiful and poetical story about the croppies graves in Wexford. Many of them carried in their coat pockets wheat seed gathered in the fields to satisfy their hunger. When they were buried in their shallow graves the seed sprouted and pushed its way up to the light, and the peasants, seeing the patches of waving grain here and there by field or wayside, knew that there a poor croppy slumbered. Was not the waving grain an emblem that the blood they shed for Ireland would yet nurture the harvest of Freedom? Twenty years ago, when in the pages of the Shan Van Vocht, that moving and lovely tale was told to the faithful few whom the centenary of Ninety-Eight had rallied around the croppies graves, it needed a poets vision, a patriots heart, to see in a promise of the mighty harvest of freedom. To-day, we look around us, and, lo!even to the blindest and coldest of usthe fields are white. Ere we go forth to the reaping, shall we not consider with ourselves what culture the buried seeds of freedom received to ensure a yield so rich? It is not alone the blood of the men who died for Ireland that has nurtured xthe harvest of her freedom. The seed has been abundantly watered by the tears of heartbroken women: mothers and wives, sweethearts and sisters, daughters and comrades. Some of these grieving women I have tried, in the following pages, to make better known to their country-women of to-day, whose joy has been purchased, in such large part, by their sorrow. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67720
Author: Concannon, Thomas
Release Date: Mar 26, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: M. H. Gill & Son
Publication Date: 1919
Publisher Country: Ireland