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The air is "The Girl I Left Behind". Translated by George Sigerson as "The Roving Worker" [18] "A Nation Once Again" – 19th-century Irish nationalist anthem by Thomas Davis. "Avenging and Bright" – patriotic song by Thomas Moore [19] "Down by the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men)" – song by Peadar Kearney about the 19th-century Fenians.
"The Wind That Shakes the Barley" is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce (1836–1883), a Limerick-born poet and professor of English literature.The song is written from the perspective of a doomed young Wexford rebel who is about to sacrifice his relationship with his loved one and plunge into the cauldron of violence associated with the 1798 rebellion in Ireland.
Traditional Irish music. Form. Ballad. Language. Irish. Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile or Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile ( [ˈoːɾˠoː ʃeː d̪ˠə ˈvʲahə ˈwalʲə]) is a traditional Irish song that came to be known as a rebel song in the early twentieth century. Óró is a cheer, whilst sé do bheatha 'bhaile means "you are welcome home".
The ballad has taken the tune of another Irish ballad, "The Wearing of the Green", [1] and was first published in John Keegan Casey's 1866 collection of poems and songs, A Wreath of Shamrocks. The lyrics were written by Casey (1846–70), the "Fenian Poet", who based the poem on the failed 1798 uprising in Granard, County Longford. [1]
The Wearing of the Green. "The Wearing of the Green" is an Irish street ballad lamenting the repression of supporters of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. It is to an old Irish air, and many versions of the lyric exist, the best-known being by Dion Boucicault. [1] The song proclaims that "they are hanging men and women for the wearing of the green".
Foggy Dew (Irish songs) " Foggy Dew " is the name of several Irish ballads, and of an Irish lament. The most popular song of that name (written by Charles O'Neill) chronicles the Easter Rising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than for the British Empire, as so many young men were doing in World War I .
A group of Black and Tans and Auxiliaries outside the London and North Western Hotel in Dublin following an IRA attack, April 1921 "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans" is an Irish rebel song referring to the Black and Tans, or "special reserve constables" (mainly former World War I army soldiers), recruited in Great Britain and sent to Ireland from 1920, to reinforce the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC ...
The song is one of the best known to emerge from the Irish nationalist struggle and has been popular amongst Nationalists. It has been covered by artists from different traditions such as Harvey Andrews and Christy Moore, who said that British soldiers often requested the song at his gigs. [5] ". The Patriot Game" has been recorded by numerous ...