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1798 Irish Memorial

Waverley (South Head General) Cemetery, St Thomas Street, Bronte
Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight ?
Who blushes at the name ?
When cowards mock the patriots fate
Who hangs his head for shame ?
He's all a knave or half a slave
Who slights his country thus
But a true man, like you, man
Will fill your glass with us
-----
We drink the memory of the brave
The faithful and the few
Some lie far off beyond the wave
Some sleep in Ireland too
All, all are gone, but still lives on
The fame of those who died
All true men, like you, men
Remember them with pride
-----
Some on the shores of distant lands
Their weary hearts have laid
And by the stranger's heedless hands
Their lonely graves were made
But though their clay be far away
Beyond th' Atlantic foam
In true men, like you, men
Their spirit's still at home
-----
The dust of some is Irish earth
Among their own they rest,
And the same land that gave them birth
Has caught them to her breast
And we will pray that from their clay
Full many a race may start
Of true men, like you, men
To act as brave a part
-----
They rose in dark and evil days
To right their native land
They kindled here a living blaze
That nothing shall withstand
Alas ! that might can vanquish right
They fell and passed away
But true men, like you, men
Are plenty here to-day
-----
Then here's their memory, may it be
For us a guiding light
To cheer our strife for liberty
And teach us to unite !
Through good and ill, be Ireland's still
Though sad as theirs your fate
And true men, be you, men
Like those of "Ninety-eight"
-----
John Kells Ingram

 

 

In Loving Memory of all who Dared
and Suffered for Ireland in 1798

 

Pray for the souls Michael Dwyer,
the "Wicklow Chief", and Mary, his wife,
whose remains are interred here in this vault
Requiescant in Pace

 

Erected by the Irish People
and Sympathisers in Australasia

The foundation stone of this monument was laid by
Charles W. McCarthy M.D. May 22nd, 1898

Ross and Bowman, Sculptors
Sheerin and Hennessy, Archts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Memory of

Theobald Wolfe Tone : Lord Edward Fitzgerald : " ........ ...... " : Thomas Addis Emmet : Thomas Russell : William Orr : Samuel Neilson : Henry Munroe : Henry Joy McCracken : John and Henry Sheares : Dr. W.J. McNevin : Wm. Putnam McCabe : Wm. Sampson : Joseph C. Lewins : A.H. Rowan : Arthur O'Connor : Rev. Wm. Jackson : Oliver Bond : Rev. Father O'Quigley : Napper Tandy : Dr. Wm. Drennan : John H. Colclough : Anthony Perry : Rev. Wm. Porter : Mary McCracken : Betsy Gray : Anne Devlin : Alexander McAllister : Joseph McCormack : Fathers John and Michael Murphy : Father P. Roche : Father M. Kearns : Father Clinch : Bartholomew Tone : Michael Dwyer : Esmond Kyan : Rev. Wm. Steele Dickson : James Hope : John Kelly : Edward Fitzgerald : John Devereaux : Bartholomew and Charles Teeling : Wm. Lawless : Miles Byrne : Garret and Wm. Byrne : Dr. John Esmonde : Dr. Wm. Tennant : Wm. Hamilton : John Sweetman : Wm. Duckett : Thomas Cloney : Robert Simms : Bagenal B. Harvey : Peter Lett : John McCann : Wm. Michael Byrne : John Sweeny : Felix Rourke : Wm. Aylmer : Joseph Holt : Patrick Prendergast : John and Patrick Byrne : Edward Roche : Edward Molloy : Benjamin P. Binns : Matthew Keough : Rev. Mr. Warwick : Rev. Mr. Stevelly : James Dickey : Father Prendergast : Henry Byers : S. Barrett : Father Redmond : Col O'Dowde : Harvey Hay and all the other Patriots of 1798

 

Here also are honoured those heroes who shed their blood for Ireland during Easter Week, 1916

Padraig Henry Pearse : Thomas Clarke : Thomas MacDonagh : Joseph Mary Plunkett : Edward Daly : William Pearse : Michael O'Hanrahan : John MacBride : Eamon Kent : The O'Rahilly : Michael Mallon : Cornelius Colbert : Sean Heuston : Sean MacDermott : James Connolly : Thomas Kent : Roger Casement

 

Rear View and Long Kesh Memorial

 

Footnote : On the 20th September 1803, at the age of 25, Robert Emmet was executed by hanging in Dublin. He was tried for high treason and sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered. When asked if he had anything to say in response to his sentence, the closing paragraph of his final speech from the dock explains why his name appears as "............ " on the above memorial

"I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world, it is the charity of its silence! Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times, and other men, can do justice to my character; when my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written"

 

 

Spiorad Na Saoirse - Long Kesh - Spirit of Freedom

 

 

In 1981, these 10 young Irish republicans gave up their lives in their hunger for justice when the H Blocks of Long Kesh became a battlefield during continued British attempts to criminalise the cause of Irish freedom.
All of Ireland 's comrades brave who fought the great fight and gave up their lives in our hearts and through our eyes they still see the struggle for a free society. Irish born goes through you and I and will never cease until to Ireland we bring true justice, liberty and a permanent peace. This plaque was erected by the Irish National Association of Australasia and designed by the prisoners in H Blocks of Long Kesh in proud memory of these 10 men who paid the supreme sacrifice in the struggle against the British occupation of Ireland

 

 
Bobby Sands
aged 27
Martin Hurson
aged 24
Francis Hughes
aged 25
Kevin Lynch
aged 25
Raymond McCreesh
aged 23
Kieran Doherty
aged 25
Patsy O'Hara
aged 24
Thomas McElwee
aged 23
Joe McDonnell
aged 30
Mickey Devine
aged 27

 

 

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