Big Jim: Als das Unrecht zum Himmel schrie...

Jim Larkin, O'Connell Street, Dublin

Als das Unrecht zum Himmel schrie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62B9_xQpw0A

AND TYRANNY TRAMPLED THEM INTO DUBLIN'S GUTTER
UNTIL JIM LARKIN CAME ALONG AND CRIED
THE CALL OF FREEDOM AND THE CALL OF PRIDE
AND SLAVERY CREPT TO ITS HANDS AND KNEES
AND NINETEEN THIRTEEN CHEERED FROM OUT THE UTTER
DEGRADATION OF THEIR MISERIES.

PATRICK KAVANACH

...HE TALKED TO THE WORKERS, SPOKE AS ONLY JIM LARKIN
COULD SPEAK, NOT FOR AN ASSIGNATION WITH PEACE, DARK
OBEDIENCE, OR PLACID RESIGNATION; BUT TRUMPET-TONGUED
OF RESISTANCE TO WRONG, DISCONTENT WITH LEERING
POVERTY, AND DEFIANCE OF ANY POWER STRUTTING OUT
TO STAND IN THE WAY OF THEIR MARCH ONWARD.

SEAN O'CASEY

The Stiletto In The Ghetto
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