Yesterday's Men
Author Dave (Blue) Kinsella

Yesterday's Men
Author Dave (Blue) Kinsella

It was Jimmy from union that gave us the news
They were closing our factory down.
You could see it all there in the eyes of my mates,
The anger, the sadness, the fear.
Like our fathers before us they worked there with pride,
You could tell there was bitterness burning inside.
Farewell my companions, my friends, my workmates,
Farewell to the pay-day, the pints, and the craic,
For we gave it our best days and they paid us back
By making us ‘Yesterday’s Men’.

Dave (Blue) Kinsella rembers and records the shock, sorrow and anger when the Sugar Factory was closed, bringing to an end the local industry that provided work for generations of Carlovians in farming, transporting and manufacturing the sugar.