And know that, though dead, I have never died."
SHAMUS O'BRIEN
A TALE OF '98, AS RELATED BY AN IRISH PEASANT
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
Jist after the war, in the year '98,
As soon as the Boys wor all scattered and bate,
'Twas the custom, whenever a peasant was got,
To hang him by trial—barrin' such as was shot.