Streets of Dublin

by James Deely

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"Streets of Dublin" by James Deely - The Story!

So a few years back, I found myself on the Southern Coast
of Ireland, in a small Port City named Cobh,
I was on a Bus Coach tour with my Mom and My Sister Mary,
In the Old days, the Town was known as Queenstown,
Queenstown was most famous for being the last Port call
for the Belfast made Titantic, before it headed out into the Mighty
North Atlantic...
So Me, Me Mum and my Sister are there in Cobb and they have
a ship all decked out the way the ships looked back in the Day,
And my Mom is going around waving this Boat manifest, a passenger
list she had from when my Great GrandFather Thomas Deely,
boarded one of them "Coffin Ships" Bound for America in 1895.
Thomas would make his Grand entrance into Philadelphia PA.!
He, like so many other Irish during that time,
headed for Distant shores, after the Gorta Mor, The Great Hunger,
So here we are on the tour, and the tour guide is telling us that
the people travelling on these ships, would have to come to town two days
before the ship left so they could confirm that the passengers were there
for the voyage ahead,
And I got to thinking, My God, Here I am walking the same Irish
Streets that my Great GrandFather, walked, so many Years ago,
Seamus Padraig

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released June 16, 2022
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