Once again, "complaint is wrong, the slightest complaint at all, / Now that the rye crop waves beside the ruins." Or, as Heaney puts in the words of the Croppies, the "
croppy boys" slaughtered in 1798 (Corcoran 25-26), "They buried us without shroud or coffin / And in August the barley grew up out of the grave" ("Requiem for the Croppies" 23).
It was one of the best striped bass lakes in the state--catfish and, of course,
croppy and whites and blacks.
Little Logan
Croppy was born on July 9, weighing 61b 11oz.
Her account of a concert given in 1900 'by the Central Branch of the Gaelic League in the Rotunda, at which the eighteen-year-old James Joyce sang [Douglas] Hyde's "Is aoibhinn duit" to the air of "The
croppy boy"', is typical in this respect and, reflecting on similar evidence, she concludes that the Gaelic League promoted music as 'a means to an end' rather than as an end in itself (p.
"The
Croppy Boy," by The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
They would have neither interfered with a lone thorn bush nor a
croppy grave.
And when Ben Dollard later sings "The
Croppy Boy," the entire population of the bar swoons.
Behind these two scenes Trooper Thomas Anlezark, mounted on a dark horse, says '
Croppy lay down' to William Johnson, another rebel leader, who replies 'We are all ruined'.
Gibbons, Slieve Bawn and the
Croppy Scout: A Historical Tale of Seventeen Ninety-Eight in North Connaught (Denver, 1914).