RON KAVANA
RESPECT! (Remember Carrickmines)(R. Kavana)
Carrickmines, where are your children? They’ve died and gone away
No more we’ll hear their footsteps as around the site they play
No more stories in the papers, no more pictures on TV
Here comes another election and more lies to you and me.
In recent years while taxing the vulnerable and poor
They cut accommodation funding – seventy million down to four
So remember those ten faces we will never see again
As they died of suffocation amidst howls of burning pain.
The truest sons of Erin’s Isle they never will forget
The tragic, sad October night that brought so much death
To a halting site in Dublin as the Connors family slept
May peace be with them all tonight, remember with respect,
May peace be with them all tonight, remember with respect.
As we recall the Proclamation of Nineteen-and-Sixteen
The pledge of equal rights for all that has never been
Our leaders shame the memory of those Easter Rising deaths
Ignoring what was fought and died for , they show no respect.
Their centenary celebration is a lie, a brazen sham
As long as there’s discrimination against the Travelling Clans
For Travellers all have human rights the same as you and me
As the ten dead had a right to live, remember with respect.
The truest sons of Erin’s Isle they never will forget
The tragic, sad October night that brought so much death
To a halting site in Dublin as the Connors family slept
May peace be with them all tonight, remember with respect,
May peace be with them all tonight, remember with respect.