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The Old Brigade is a slow march composed in 1881 with music by Irishman Edward Slater, and words by Frederic Weatherly. It was popularised by a recording of 1926 by Peter Dawson . [ 1 ] This is a slow march that is always played in Britain at the annual Festival of Remembrance and at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday when the Chelsea ...
The Boys of the Old Brigade is an Irish rebel song written by Paddy McGuigan about the Irish Republican Army of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), [1] and the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. [2]
McGuigan released his only solo album with Dolphin Records (DOLM 5012) in 1975, My Country, My Songs and Me. [5] Along with Dermot O'Brien, he also produced the album, The Price Of Justice , [ 6 ] featuring Kathleen Largey of the Flying Column Music Group .
The Boys of the Old Brigade - 2:58; Children of Fear - 4:28; The Boys of Fair Hill - 1:39; The Bodenstown Churchyard - 3:56; The Grandfather - 3:30; The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale - 3:54; Broad Black Brimmer - 2:38; Laugh and the World Laughs with You - 3:23; A Soldier's Life - 2:17; Give Me Your Hand - 3:12; Must Ireland Divided Be - 3:53 ...
"Arthur McBride" – an anti-recruiting song from Donegal, probably originating during the 17th century. [1]"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.
This is a list of songs that either originated in blackface minstrelsy or are otherwise closely associated with that tradition. Songwriters and publication dates are given where known. Songwriters and publication dates are given where known.
The song is based on a real event in April 1921. An Irish Republican Army unit needed transport to a town over fifty miles away, but had no car to carry them. They decided to call out Henry M. Johnston, a doctor based in Stranorlar, and then ambush him and his car at a bridge and commandeer the car for the IRA.
The poem honors the famed Confederate Army officer Lieutenant General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and was written by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906), who stated that he had written the ballad on September 16, 1862; [1] however, Miller & Beacham, who published the song in 1862, stated that the song was found on the body of a Confederate ...