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From Ireland with Letters
part V: Cantata (measures 1-6)
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Douglas Hyde, A Literary History of Ireland From Earliest Times to the Present Day, 1899

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"...she sat down beside him,
the grass was so green"

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""the day was the fairest
that ever was seen"

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"How did you know the circumstances
of Walter Power's arrival
in America?" he asked.

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"...she sat down beside him,
the grass was so green,
the day was the fairest
that ever was seen"

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"Now as she went homeward, the words he had said"

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"And the tune that he sang her
still rang in her head"

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"It began with
my great grandfather's books."

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"Yes"

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"You mean the histories
of Ireland
on the table on the stage?"

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"And the tune that she sang him
still rang in his head"

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"As down the glen one Easter morn
To a city fair rode I"

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"In April 1916, my great grandfather
escaped from Dublin
with his Fenian brother
on a silent ship."

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"Yes, my great grandfather
was a Gaelic League scholar.
His brother was a Boston Fenian
who secretly ran arms
to the Volunteers."

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"and was not among the over 3,000 rebels
who were arrested after the Easter Rising.
That is a story worth telling."
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"MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be"

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"And with him to America my great grandfather
brought forty books,
a treasure of history, music and poetry,
forty books from the Gaelic Revival
stowed in the crates
that had carried guns to Dublin."

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From peaceful hours
in the library of the Jesuit University
where he did his undergraduate studies,
he knew the books that she meant.

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"Oh, I know those books," he said,
and waited for her to continue.

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the dark green hills of early evening

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"... where the lighter craft
of the olden time could easily glide in and out
with the full tide"

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and the countryside was unfenced

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...as if everything in her life
was linked to the moment

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"I grew up reading those books.
And so, when I decided to write an Irish lay
I went home every weekend
to reread them."

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One evening at dinner
I said that I did not know how to begin.

And my father said,
"I am going to tell you a story
that has been a family secret
for 350 years."

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The British slave ship The Goodfellow
docked first in Marblehead,
in Essex County, Massachusetts.
There had been 550 captive
Irish and Scottish young men and women
aboard the ship
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A waiter brought two glasses of beer
to the table where Máire Powers
and Liam O'Brien were sitting
at the Farmhouse Cafe
in New Hampshire.

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One glass was set at Máire's place
and the other at Liam's place.

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In 1847, Hiram Powers crated
The Greek Slave in Florence
and sent her to America on The Hudson.
The Statue arrived
at the receiving agent
Goodhue and company
on the docks of New York
in August 1847.
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