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1014 April 23 For What Died the Sons of Roisin   Luke Kelly Battle of Clontarf
1580 Follow Me Up To Carlow Planxty with lyrics
1599 Aug 15 The West's Awake Wolfe Tones Composerlyricsbest reference found for Corr-sliabh Pass • date is for the Battle of Curlew Pass which may be related
1607 Sept 14 Flight of the Earls Paddy Reilly
1608 Aug 1 O'Donnell Abu Makem & Clancy with
Schooner Fare 
date is death of Rory_O'Donnell
1690 Jul 12 Green Grassy Slopes of the Boyne Wolfe Tones words - RWH file for this and several others
1691 Oct 3 Jackets Green Eileen Donaghy lyricsSarsfieldTreaty
1761 The Jail of Cluain Meala Luke Kelly lyricsbackground and different lyrics
1798 May 26 Boulavogue Jim McCann lyrics (need extract)
1798 May 27 The Boys of Wexford John McCormack lyrics
1798 Jun 21 Kelly the Boy from Killane Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy
1798 The Wearing of the Green Wolfe Tones
1798 The Rising of the Moon
1798 The Rising of the Moon Luke Kelly lyrics
no date The Orange and the Green Jimmy Ferguson - Irish Rovers
1800 Feb 28 Roddy McCorley Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
1844 July 13 A Nation Once Again The Wolfe Tones Wikipedialyrics
1845 - 1850 Fields of Athenry Paddy Reilly Written 1970s (irrelevant photo)
Skibbereen Ronnie Drew with lyrics. Wikipedia about the song
1862 ++++ The Irish Brigade (Confederate) AmericanZeus
Rosin the Beau The Corries Tune for the above
1867 Sep 18 The Smashing Of The Van Manchester Martyrs
1912 Apr 11 The Holy Ground Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Arbitrary date being that of this photo of RMS Titanic in Cobh Harbour
1916 July  1 -  
         Nov 18
Battle of the Somme /
Freedom Come All Ye
Luke Kelly words
1916 April 21  Banna Strand Wolfe Tones
1916 Apr 24 The Foggy Dew Luke Kelly Easter Proclamation of 1916
The Foggy Dew Sinead O'Connor and The Chieftains
1916 ? Erin Go Bragh The Wolfe Tones poor sound
1916 May 12 James Connolly The Wolfe Tones
1920 Johnston's Motor Car The Dubliners OriginWikipedia
1920 Oct 25 Shall My Soul Pass
Through Old Ireland
Bridie Gallagher lyricsMacSwiney
1920 Nov 1 Kevin Barry
1920 Nov 28 The Boys of Kilmichael
1922 Aug 22 Michael Collins date is death
1922 Nov 24 Death of Erskine Childers tomasocarthaigh   Patriot or traitor
1922 Dec 6 The Soldiers' Song or 1926 Jul 12
1937 Feb Viva la Quinta Brigada Christy Moore Kit Conway
Viva la Quinta Brigada Christy Moore
too much audience noise and typo in the visual!
1939 Sept 1 McAlpine's Fusiliers Ronnie Drew McAlpine's last words
McAlpine's Fusiliers Ronnie Drew wordsphotos
McAlpine's Fusiliers Ronnie Drew looking very young!
1957 Jan 1 Seán South The Wolfe Tones Limerick Treaty Stone
1987 Jun 11 Mrs Thatcher with lyrics Alan Dean written by Sean Brady
Mrs Thatcher left to guess
 
Four Green Fields written and performed by Tommy Makem
Forty Shades of Green written and performed by Johnny Cash
Massive archive of Irish song lyrics
Boundary of the Gaeltacht photo
 
Interloper from the history of Scotland in song:
1411 July 24 The Battle o' Harlaw The Corries lyrics PDF • Battle of Harlaw

Played to Tuesday group 2011 Mar 29:

  • Follow Me up to Carlow
  • The Sash My Father Wore
  • Boulavogue
  • The Fields of Athenry
  • Michael Collins
  • Seán South of Garryowen
  • For What Died The Sons Of Róisín
  • The Soldiers' Song
  • Freedom come all ye
  • Mrs Thatcher

Played to Tuesday group 2011 April 12:

  • McAlpine's Fusiliers