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The ballad was lyrics were composed by Robert Dwyer Joyce [2] and music by Arthur Warren Darley, who also composed other Wexford ballads, "Boolavogue" and "Kelly the Boy from Killanne". [ 3 ] On the Isle of Man, the tune is known as Yn Speigh Er My Gealin (The Pick On My Shoulder).
This category is for ballads or songs historically and/or thematically related to the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Pages in category "Ballads of the Irish Rebellion of 1798" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The song was inspired by songs contemporary to the events of 1798 such as "Come All You Warriors". Liam Gaul [ 1 ] states that "Boolavogue" is the song most closely associated with PJ McCall, and has become an anthem for Wexford.
The song was written within a couple of years of the Rising, and is one of the bases for "Boulavogue", written by P.J. McCall 100 years later for the centenary commemorations. The song is referenced in the Memoirs of Joseph Holt, general of the Irish rebels in 1798 , where he states:
His exploits are commemorated in the famous Irish ballad Kelly the Boy From Killane written by Patrick Joseph McCall (1861–1919). Liam Gaul describes how McCall wrote the song to commemorate the centenary of the 1798 Rebellion, although it was not published in book form until it appeared in McCall's Irish Fireside Songs in 1911. [5]
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 .
The album was released in 1998 to commemorate the bicentenary of the events and is accompanied by a detailed booklet about the rebellion and each of the songs on the album. 'The booklet, as well as containing a concise account of the rising, has biographies of all the leaders of the 1798 rebellion, and a handsome cover illustration.
"The Recruiting Sergeant" – song (to the tune of "The Peeler and the Goat") from the time of World War 1, popular among the Irish Volunteers of that period, written by Séamus O'Farrell in 1915, recorded by The Pogues. [2] [3] "Mrs. McGrath" – popular among the Irish Volunteers, 1916 [1] "The Saxon Shilling" – written by K. T. Buggy ...