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Summer School 2013
22nd Jul - 26th Jul 2013
School Location:
The Market Place
Theatre,
Armagh
For booking contact:
The Market Place Booking Office
www.marketplacearmagh.com
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Please use the navigation below to browse through some of John Hewitt's Poetry:
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| AN ULSTER LANDOWNER'S SONG |
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I'm Major This or Captain That,
MC and DSO.
This Orange Lily in my hat
I sometimes wear for show,
so long as I can walk my dogs
around the old estate,
and keep the Fenians in their bogs,
the peasants at the gate.
I meet my tenants, decent men,
in Lodge, on market day,
and all seems safe till, now and then,
they start a small affray.
They stirred up an unwelcome noise,
it set my nerves on edge,
that day they beat those girls and boys
across Burntollet Bridge,
with journalists and cameras there
to send in their reports.
The world no longer seems to care
for healthy country sports.
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