Martyrs

Author: Liz Niven

Date: 1997

Source: Ullans: The Magazine for Ulster-Scots, Nummer 5 Simmer1997

At Jan Palak Square

A mindit on oor ain martyrs,

A thoosan mile awa.

Twa weimen, young an auld,

Droont ower the heid o releigion

In Covenantin times.

In twentiet centurie Prague

He de’ed bi fire

Tae speir for freedom

Fae Communist rule,

This young student,

Bi his ain thin haun.

Eneuch ye’d think,

Tae crack thon icy hairts.

Liz Niven

Margaret Wilson, the Martyr of the Solway

Margaret Wilson, the Martyr of the Solway

The poem ‘Martyrs’ by Liz Niven of Newton Stewart in Dumfries and Gallowa) was first published in Lallans: the magazine for writing in Scots, Nummer 48 Caunilmass 1997, and is here reproduced with the author’s permission.

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