the Battle of Antrim: Ireland Drennan depicts as a: hapless land!Heap of uncementing sand!Crumbled by a foreign weight:And, by worse, domestic hate. Thomas Moore, Ireland's national bard, is said to have esteemed When Erin First Rose (1795)--source for the image of Ireland as the "Emerald Isle"—as the most perfect of modern songs. Anticipating the struggle to come, Drennan wrote: In the shift of a moment a darkness--a dream. Death Drennan died in Belfast in 1820. His funeral followed his instructions: "let six poor Protestants and six poor Catholics get a guinea apiece for carriage of me, and a priest and a dissenting clergyman with any friends that choose." On the way to the Clifton Street graveyard, his cortege stopped for a few minutes outside what is now the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, the school he had founded. His headstone inscription reads: Pure, just, benign: thus filial love would trace The virtues hallowing this narrow space The Emerald Isle may grant a wider claim And link the Patriot with his Country's name Family With Sarah Swanwick, Drennan had one surviving daughter and four sons. His sons John Swanwick Drennan (a noted poet) and William Drennan wrote a biography of him for Richard Davis Webb's A Compendium of Irish Biography. Through his daughter Sarah, who married John Andrews, of a prominent family of flax merchants, Drennan had several notable descendants, including: William Drennan Andrews, judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland J. M. Andrews, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Thomas Andrews, managing director of the shipbuilder Harland and Wolff Thomas Drennan, performance artist known primarily for his seminal work 'Journey to the Centre of Drennan' Stuart Drennan, screenwriter Pamphlets, Letters, Publications A letter to Edmund Burke (1780) An Address to the Volunteers of Ireland by the Author of an address to Edmund Burke (1781) Letters of Orellana, an Irish Helot to the seven northern counties not represented in the National Assembly of Delegates, held in Dublin, 1784, for obtaining a more equal representation of the people in the Parliament of Ireland (1785). Letter to his Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam (1795) Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt (1799) Second letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt (1799) A Protest from one of the people of Ireland against a union with Great Britain (1800) Letter to the Right Honorable Charles James