Poem ~ Five Irish Brothers - Tuesday, 24 November 1914

Large families of the time,

Prove their worth to the army -

As in sons given by a mother,

From County Armagh.

Five brothers of this mother

Joined the Ulster

Division of Kitchener’s army.

Upon hearing of these men,

Sir Edward Carson,

Wrote his praise to the lady.

Stating in the penned words

That action, of such volunteers,

From such a family -

Serves as a demonstration

To the enemy,

Of universal determination.

This enemy -

Whose state of aggression

Threatens European peace,

In perpetual instability -

By their emanation in ideals,

Of Prussian potentate.

Such brothers, such sons,

Encapsulates everything,

That their king could ever

Wish for -

To come from Irish shores.

Not the first, nor the last

Of such ideal brotherhood.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1914. Five Sons Volunteer.The Daily Telegraph, [online] 9 Aug. p.4. Col.7. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11241616/Daily-Telegraph-November-24-1914.html [Accessed: 24 November 2014].

Mann, J., 2014. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 24 November 2014). 

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