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by Keelan Langdon

Splattered with names and votes
Could be see as so worthless
Yet
It has had the biggest change
In shaping Ireland as I know it today.

Reproduced with kind permission of the author. This poem was composed in a Poetry as Commemoration workshops held at The Jackie Clarke Collection, Mayo, with students from St. Murdach’s College, Ballina, in October 2023.  The workshop was led by writer Martin Dyer.

Themes

1921 , Anglo-Irish Treaty , Anti-Treaty , Civil War , Dáil Eireann , Dublin , English Language , Free State , Pro-Treaty , Workshop Poem