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Passing Bective Abbey yesterday I stopped to take a photograph and not a very good one perhaps but if you're ever in the vicinity it's always worth a visit. The history of it goes back before the Normans and it's an important landmark, for those who are interested. The River Boyne runs close beside it and it's open for anyone who wants to visit. But as they say heed the signs! Below is a verse from a poem I came across in the "Kilmessan and Dunsany Yearbook 1993".
"A peasant passing through Louvain
With dew-dimmed eyes would sadly see
The shattered shrines and fallen fane
And every field a cemetery
Place him on Tara's Hill
The same sad sights
The landscape fill!
Philip. E. Daly
(Late of Bective)
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One complete book of "the Poems of Philip E. Daly
green card cover
newsprint text pages
60 pages text
original printing with 5 spine staples
size is 140mm x 218mm (ex imperial size)
Poems:
Assey
Marriage Market
The Death of Pearse (No terror of a firing squad could chill, . . . ..
Lines to Pearse (sritten in Knutsford Prison, 1916
and of course more up to "A Rebel's Resolve" (last page)
(1884 Drogheda Independent "shamrock" logo)
Private collection
Eamonn,
Any further info on Philip. E. Daly. We published a poem, "The Corpse at Clady Gate" which was submitted to our recent magazine though no information on who wrote it. Have since been given a copy of the original from The Meath Chronicle 1897-current/Saturday, December 25, 1926. Philip. E. Daly. Also any information on the person who was buried in Clady.
Many thanks for comment.
Frank Murphy.
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