#PoetryDayIreland's theme this year is '#MayDay' so we're sharing this typescript copy of #poem 'May day on Corrin', circa 1914.

Published posthumously as 'May day' in the poetry collection 'The poetical works of #ThomasMacDonagh', 1916.

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"But his songs new souls shall thrill,
The loud harps dumb,
And his deed the echoes fill
When the dawn is come."

Poems: allpoetry.com/Thomas-MacDo...

✒️ #ThomasMacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel, was executed #OTD 3 May 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising. #Poetry #Literature

Pleased to be Programme Curator for the Thomas MacDonagh Hedge Scool again this year.

Huge thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for including details in his weekly Irish Times Books newsletter today. 👇

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#ThomasMacDonagh #HedgeSchool

"But his songs new souls shall thrill,
The loud harps dumb,
And his deed the echoes fill
When the dawn is come."

Poems: allpoetry.com/Thomas-MacDo...

✒️ #ThomasMacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel, was executed #OTD 3 May 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising. #Poetry #Literature

Delighted that Garry Cotter, editor at the #NenaghGuardian gave my post event review at full page in today’s paper, thank you.
#ThomasMacDonagh #HedgeSchool #Cloughjordan

Grief and memory, shaped into song.

"The Yellow Bittern"
by Thomas MacDonagh

https://v2melody.com/public_poem_details.php?poem_id=12251

#Poetry #Literature #PoetryCommunity #ThomasMacDonagh

After our wonderful events last year, it’s a delight to be invited to be Programme Curator for the Thomas MacDonagh Hedge School again this year (18- 22 Sept 2024) @MacDonaghMuseum
#ThomasMacDonagh

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“Irish Republic” flag raised above the General Post Office with Nelson’s pillar in background.
Nearly 110 years ago on Easter Monday, April 24 1916, a group of rebels, men and women, stood up and proclaimed the Irish Replubic.

#Easter1916 #1916Rising #ThomasMacDonagh #IrishRepublic