Princes Of Breifne is a song I wrote a few years ago while living in the village of Knock in County Mayo…From 2017 – 2019 I lived in Ireland with my son and had a lovely time touring Ireland and traveling Europe…During that time I had a work from home job as a fundraiser for Fighting Blindness that I worked on a part time basis…I traveled and blogged and sang to my heart’s content…Princes Of Breifne is a song I would like to rewrite from a different perspective but with the same format as before…This time I am naming the song Ryan in honor of the Ryan Report…To understand the Ryan Report click on the hyperlink’d words Ryan Report…I come from the O’Reilly and O’Connor and Kelly and Doyle Clans so my lineage can be linked back to the ancient High Kings of Ireland and the Princes Of Breifne…With all the migrations done over the centuries it is not possible to know my exact lineage but it is fair to say that being one hundred percent Irish that I have this in my lineage…My father’s last name is O’Reilly and comes from the O’Reilly and Doyle clan my mother is from the Kelly and O’Connor clan…Some might say I am clannish but to tell you the truth I am only getting to know myself in my 50’s…I am now 50 years old and I am still learning new things about myself…A lot of us from Ireland feel like we lost our sense of who we are due to centuries of forced migration due to poor economics and hard times suffered not only in Ireland but throughout Europe…America and other countries saved the Irish from total annihilation and for this we are most grateful…I have an especial love for America because were it not for America who opened her arms to the Irish and European Immigrants I might not be here at all…America to this day continues to open her arms to the world and embrace immigrants from all over the world…It is for this reason that America will always be a great country in my eyes…I hope you enjoy my rewrite of Princes Of Breifne and song now titled Ryan…
So I sing for the Princes Of Breifne a loud cry a clarion call
From the wall for I am one of the Princes Of Breifne
Let my fiat tell it all…
I wear the scars for the Princes Of Breifne I shout it out for the Princes Of Breifne
They took our land said the Princes Of Breifne destroyed our homes said the Princes Of Breifne
Ruined our children said the Princes Of Breifne in the name God
In the name of God they ruled in the name of God in the name of God they ruled in the name of God
Fed our children false food did them no good in our neighborhoods and fed our children lies and tall tales
Told our children they’d go to hell if they ever tell they told our children they would go to hell if they ever tell
They striped our children naked and filled them with stripes full of hate they raped our boys and girls now its too late
Full of hate they raped our boys and girls and now its too late
Clothed in rags and fed bad food they did our children no good in their neighborhood
Those who survived to tell the tale were terrified because children were for sale
Those who survived to tell the tale were terrified because children were for sale
So I sing for the Princes Of Breifne a loud cry a clarion call
From the wall of the Princes of Breifne
For their crimes they blamed God for their crimes they blamed Lucifer who is the devil
Those who did such things used free will goddamn bedlam goddamn they used free will
Tis not Lucifer’s fault or the devil’s fault neither is it God’s fault and all will be held to account
There was no end to the depths of their vile depravities priests and nuns son of a gun dressed in bad habits
Priest and nuns son of a gun dressed in bad habits had some terribly bad habits
Priests and nuns drank too much from the chalice of vile iniquity and they have nothing to blame but themselves
Bloody hell they were not well they drink vile water from a different well it’s not Satan’s fault neither is it God’s fault
Their free will accomplished it all from Magdalene’s laundry from industrial schools the Ryan Report says it all
Christian Brother’s were rotten telling our boys and girls they were ill begotten
Sister’s without mercy and false father’s with no grace can no longer save face they are a bloody disgrace
To Salem’s lot they return and for all eternity they will burn because they never learn they created their own hell
Do tell all hell they created their own hell unholy ungodly vile pieces of crap to do that to children in the name of God
Makes Lucifer mad and all hell mad why complain it’s their disgrace and they have no one to blame but themselves
These perverted perpetrators will never save face before God and Man and all Hell do tell it’s all out and this is our shout out…Do tell all hell it’s all out and this is our shout out…
Sulamitess Twelve 