what the papers said:
"A long bloodstain & a make-shift shrine mark the spot where Eamon Mcdevitt, a 24 year old deaf mute had his face blown away by an army marksman during a riot in Strabane last Wednesday. In the gutter there are still fragments of bone & shattered teeth."
REPORT
a deaf mute was shot dead
for not listening to orders
soldiers said he waved
a weapon
the blind crowd didn't see
they disagreed about details
but denied the official version
it happened so quick
when dumb flesh tried to speak
a gun replied
(first published in GREEN & PLEASANT LAND anthology -
British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign)
"Remember how Calvin & Luther in fury premature
Sow'd War & stern division between Papists & Protestants.
Let it not be so now! O go not forth in Martyrdoms & Wars!"
Discontents