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Chapter 4  
     
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 Every thing is revealed by time.  
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 The Feara Cualann  
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 most ancient of leaders  
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 Of the region at the heart of the birth of Ireland.  
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 What become of them, their past deeds?  
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 Their name, their history?  
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 These men of the Wicklow Hills  
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 These “men of cuala” as some boast all knowing  
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 They pick away at threads and scraps  
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 Proclaiming proudly their heritage to Cualann.  
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 “We were the Cualann” they call  
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 quoting the slurs of men with dark motive.  
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 “It is us”, they write with gusto.  
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 For in confidence they see the word Cualann as nothing more than sticks  
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 bundles a mere name of history  
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 Surely, it is Cualann that stretched through the Counties of Dublin and Wicklow.  
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 From these lands comes the earliest of Ireland.  
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 Why not herald such claims of pedigree to those holding rotted scraps and threads of dead monks and frauds?
 
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 The O'Mulryan for once did proclaim themselves one of the first.  
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 And now crows who pick at the carcass of a dead clan.  
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 The Annals of the Four Masters- a most grotesuqe work of christians lies,  
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 speaks of murder and greed for such land.  
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 They wrote that Donnchadh Ua Maelmhuaidhc once lord of this land was killed by Murchadh Ua Maeleachlainn  
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 They wrote Muircheartach Ua Maelmhuaidh, the other lord of Feara-Ceall, was burned by the Feara-Ceall, in the church of Raithin.  
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 They wrote many a fable of pious Christian clergy fighting heathen savages.  
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 A bloodthirsty swill of pagan barbarity,  
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 Endless blood and feud,  
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 that not more than a few could hold their breath long on a throne,  
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 or yet admire their handsome crown before a suitor cleaved a new claim.
  
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 Yet with reverence and awe are the “Four Masters” and their wickedness held.  
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 All the while the cualann, the cuileain, the cuilleain are forgotten.  
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 Cuala, a mere bundle of sticks, they parrot the invading histories of the Roman Christian,  
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 the Norman Saxon lords and then the English.  
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 Who then are the Feara Cualann?  
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 Is their name their name?  
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 The slip of the pen, the twist of the tongue,  
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 the history of Ireland vanishes to dust.  
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 You proud descendents of kings and chiefs.  
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 In the youth of summer long forgotten  
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 In The hills of Cualann were two golden horns,  
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 Two breasts childing, Two tents of light  
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 In the ancient winter  
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 They are two rusted swords,  
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 Two waves of darkness,  
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 Two moons of ice.  

 
 
 

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