Two Black Crosses

Where James Connolly was shot while sitting on a chair as he was too weak to stand.
The gate he was brought in on in an ambulance in on the right of the picture.
Picture (c) 2010 Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Today I look and think it hard
To write of their deaths, and I a bard!
Two crosses black upon a yard
Where the 1916 rebel leaders died.

One, a totally innocent man
Brother of he who the rebellion began
Who did not - and they knew it - plot or plan
Sentenced was to death when tried.

I looked at the gate where
By ambulance, James Connolly was brought there
To be shot... sitting in a chair
How Erin heartbroken, for her sons she sighed...