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Chapter 5  
     
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 What then of the memory of the Glean Cualann?  
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 Now as the Glencullen  
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 Shall it too be forgotten?  
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 Or shall the few words of jailers and masters be held higher than the land of ancients?  
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 For scattering is easier than gathering.  
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 The Valley of the Wicklow Hills, so told we that pride our knowledge of history.
  
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 A quirk of history- an easy name place.  
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 Come the Feara Cualann, the hills  
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 Come then the valley, the Glean Cualann, no more then.  
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 Like so much of Ireland  
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 Cowards of ink and fable have done their work.  
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 For like the Feara Cualann, who placed the Holly as it once was?  
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 So, the Glean Cualann divorced from the Cuileann, the Cuileain, the holly is rejected.  
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 And of the Cualanns Wood?  
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 The large areas around the Glean Cualann that were heavily wooded?  
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 So too the power of the pen to erase has done its best.  
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 No longer the woods of the first priests, the first kings, the first mystics.  
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 No longer the soul and birthplace of wisdom, no longer the Holly family.  
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 First as Cullenswood, then as Fercullen and Feighcullen  
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 Then to English barons of Cromwell’s day who cursed the land as Powerscourt.  
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 A wretched state when such insult stands.  
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 A telling sign when free men know no better.  

 
 
 

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