INTRODUCTION " Alas ! how sad by Shannon’s �lood, The blush of morning sun appears ! To men who gave for us their blood, Ah ! what can women give but tears ! DRENNAN: Lament of the Women after the Battle. “THEY tell a beautiful and poetical story about the croppies graves in Wexford. Many of them carried in their coat pockets wheat seed gathered in the �fields to satisfy their hunger...