Dunlap

DUNLAP is a bilingual anti-war poem, in Irish and English, written and recorded by  Gabriel Rosenstock (POETS OF THE PLANET)  which remembers Ulsterman John Dunlap,  the man who printed the first copies of the American Declaration of Independence. 

Dunlap

Fear as an Srath Bán

Co. Thír Eoghain
John Dunlap
A chlóbhuail Forógra Saoirse Mheiriceá.

Amhantraíocht in eastát réadach
a dhein fear an-saibhir de.

Ó shin i leith
Tá an tSaoirse á scaipeadh ag Meiriceá
I gcogaí éagsúla.

Agus an Forógra á chlóbhualadh aige
Ar shamhlaigh Dunlap riamh go dtarlódh Cogadh Vítneam
Go dtarlódh Cogadh san Iaráic
Go dtarlódh  . . .
Tá liosta díobh anseo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
Leanfar de  . . .

Dunlap

A man from Strabane

Co. Tyrone
John Dunlap
Printed the American Declaration of Independence.

Speculation in real estate
Made him a very rich man.

Since then
America is propagating Freedom
In various wars.

Whilst printing the Declaration
Did Dunlap envision the war in Vietnam
The war in Iraq
The war in  . . .
There's a list of them here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
To be continued . . .

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