Margaret Boles: To Manchester's Maimed

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TO MANCHESTER'S MAIMED
An Irish woman born and bred, Once again I'll say what I've always said, "They don't do this in my name," May all Irish people say the same, "They don't do this in my name." Many in the middle of Manchester maimed For Ireland, so those villains have claimed, And so I repeat it once more, Repeat again what I've said before, "They don't do this in my name." Manchester Mum and her unborn child, Really those villains drive me wild, "They don't do this in my name." Twenty-five years of wounding and pain, What was it all to gain? Once again my answer's the same, "They don't do this in my name."

TO MANCHESTER'S MAIMED

An Irish woman born and bred,
Once again I'll say what I've always said,
"They don't do this in my name,"
May all Irish people say the same,
"They don't do this in my name."

Many in the middle of Manchester maimed
For Ireland, so those villains have claimed,
And so I repeat it once more,
Repeat again what I've said before,
"They don't do this in my name."

Manchester Mum and her unborn child,
Really those villains drive me wild,
"They don't do this in my name."

Twenty-five years of wounding and pain,
What was it all to gain?
Once again my answer's the same,
"They don't do this in my name."


Corporation Street in June 1996, July 1998 and November 1999

MARGARET BOLES

Margaret Boles lives in Rathgar, Co. Dublin and, since joining a local writers group a few years ago, has had poems published in Poetry Monthly, Books Ireland, Links, Asylum, Quantum Leap and elsewhere.

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