Absent V: James Connolly
As láthair V: Séamas Ó Conghaile
We recognised the green-uniformed hero,
who met cruel death because he fought for freedom.
But we'd been left in the dark concerning
the evangelist of the red gospel,
who revealed the hidden foundations of the marble halls
in which our Cathleen played her bewitching harp music.

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D'aithníomar an laoch faoin éide ghlas
a fuair anbhás ar son na saoirse.
Ach fágadh dall muid ar an té
a scaip an soiscéal dearg
a ríomh dúinn fothaí ceilte na hallaí bána
inar chas ár gCaitlín a ceol mealltach cruite.

Seachrán Ruairí agus Dánta Eile (Coiscéim 1986); Chapman 55-56.