File 1 - Poetry

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Drafts of poetry written by Canon Hayes and his acquaintances, plus copies of published poems collected by Canon Hayes. All poems are written by Canon Hayes unless noted. Includes the poems:
-'Ireland Mother Ireland' (1p);
-'Ireland' (2 drafts, 2pp);
-'Gethsemani'/'Gethsemane' (1956, 3 drafts, 4pp);
-'Hurrah For a Wexford Man (Dedicated to Michael Redmond, Ballagh, Enniscorthy)' (written by J.J. Bergin, 2pp);
-'Ploughs at Killarney' (written by J.J. Bergin, 1 February 1939, 1p);
-'Elizabeth O'Connor' (1p);
-'Regina Prophetarum' (1p);
-'A Picture I Shall Always See' (written by Honora F. Smith, 1p);
-'Foundation of sacrifice & atonement' (1p);
-'To Yourself' (written by Seamus Ó Breacáin, 2pp);
-'Mother in Bethlehem's Stable' (2pp);
-'Land of Home, Land of Birth' (1p);
-'Father John (Son of the Soil and Darling of Tipperary Town)', unknown author. Includes a letter to Canon Hayes written around the margins of page 1 (31 July 1945, 5pp);
-'Rural Resurgence' (written by Seamus Ó Breacáin, 2pp);
-'Oh Paddy dear' (2pp);
-'In no palace hall I seek her' (2pp);
-'Since our fate is thus' (1p)'
-'To June', written by Canon Hayes for June Maxwell, a young girl in Bansha (1p);
-'Assumption', written by Canon Hayes to commemorate the reopening of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Kilmoyler, County Tipperary (c. 1947, 2 drafts, 2pp);
-'Liberty's Dawn' (published in the Irish People, 1908, 1p);
-'Greetings to Ireland'/'Killed' (published in the Irish Packet, c. 1900s, 1p);
-'An Old Friend' (published in the Irish People, 1908, 1p);
-'Muintir na Tíre' (likely written by Seán Mor Rice, Help Ireland Committee, 1p);
-'No, not a business diary' (September 1923, 1p);
-'Autumn Leaves' (published in the Irish People, 1908, 1p);
-'Ode to Evening' (published in the Irish People, 1908, 1p);
-'Moment of Respite' (1p);
-'See the sun its rays embracing' (2pp);
-Miscellaneous notes (3pp);
-'A Donegal Boy in Dublin' (written by ‘An Philibín’ (John Hackett Pollock), 2pp);
-'Prince Alfrid's Itinerary through Ireland' (written by James Clarence Manan, 2pp);
-Pages torn from books of prose (10pp);
-Poem written for the Silver Jubilee of George V (unknown author, 1935, 1p);
-Excerpts from the operetta 'The Desert Song' by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II (1p).

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