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Rebel Songs, Part 4: Song from the Backwoods
Song from the Backwoods, a.k.a. Ireland Boys Hurrah!, a.k.a. Dear Old Ireland!
This week Rory & Máirtín venture off to invade Canada 🇨🇦 with the Fenian Brotherhood.
T.D. Sullivan’s 19th century ballad brings up the memory of the idea to take Canada and offer to trade to her back to England for the freedom of Ireland. A wild episode in Irish history.
June 1866 was the first time the Tri Colour was raised in battle to claim victory and land at Fort Erie across the river from Buffalo New York.
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By Rory Makem; Máirtín de Cógáin
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Song from the Backwoods, a.k.a. Ireland Boys Hurrah!, a.k.a. Dear Old Ireland!
This week Rory & Máirtín venture off to invade Canada 🇨🇦 with the Fenian Brotherhood.
T.D. Sullivan’s 19th century ballad brings up the memory of the idea to take Canada and offer to trade to her back to England for the freedom of Ireland. A wild episode in Irish history.
June 1866 was the first time the Tri Colour was raised in battle to claim victory and land at Fort Erie across the river from Buffalo New York.