The Foggy Dew by Canon Charles O'Neill

    The Foggy Dew by Canon Charles O'Neill is a political song that highlights the events of Easter 1916. Within the poem, O'Neill discusses strong men, which are meant to represent the heroic men that sacrificed themselves during the battle. Canon then clearly presents the opposing sides as 'Britannia' and how they are keeping a small nation from becoming free. The small nation being Ireland, that produced the men through bravery they fell. This is a song-like poem that Canon Charles O'Neill wrote in hopes to, not only memorialize the dead, but also make a political statement that there is still much more that needs to be done.