At the end of battle you were not given a memorial

In limestone words nor on a marble grave,

But your name will be a shimmering idol in the hearts of every child,

And your story will be narrated in tasteful Gaelic.

[I]s there more than that one person among all the elected representatives of the country who will stand and speak against the replanting of the ‘Republic’?

The one theme tying these works together is they are representations of what innovative and independent Irish thinking looks like in practice