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"No Man's Land" (also known as "The Green Fields of France" or "Willie McBride") is a song written in 1976 by Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter Eric Bogle, reflecting on the grave of a young man who died in World War I. Its chorus refers to two famous pieces of military music, the "Last Post" and the "Flowers of the Forest".
William James McBride, CBE, better known as Willie John McBride (born 6 June 1940) is a former rugby union footballer who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He played 63 Tests for Ireland including eleven as captain, and toured with the Lions five times; a record that gave him 17 Lions Test caps.
Over the next several years, Paddy and Tom brought in some new material too. "The Green Fields of France", also known as "Willie McBride", by Eric Bogle had become a hit with a recording by the Clancys' old back-up musicians, the Furey Brothers, in the early 1980s. Soon numerous Irish groups were singing it, including the Clancy Brothers and ...
As a child, he was known as William or Willie, named after his mother's hero Willie Doyle. He later acquired the nickname 'Liam' from Cyril Cusack as 'William' was "too English". [9] [10] The Clancys were a republican family with Liam's uncle Peter McGrath serving under Dan Breen in a flying column during the Irish War of Independence. [11]
Willie Robertson's children — Rebecca, John Luke, Sadie, Bella, Will and Rowdy — made his experience on Duck Dynasty one-of-a-kind.. When the reality TV show premiered in 2012, Willie and his ...
With Maurice Cassidy as their international manager and Tommy's wife Mary Makem as their manager in the United States, the duo began touring full-time, performing at all the major venues and festivals in North America, Ireland, the UK, Australia, and occasionally in continental Europe, and appearing on all the major talk shows outside the U.S ...
Willie is the dad of eight children: Lana, 70, Susie, 67, and Billy Jr., who died by suicide at age 33 in 1991, all of whom he shared with Matthews; Paula, 54, and Amy, 50, whom he shares with ...
William McBride (doctor) (1927–2018), Australian physician; Will McBride (photographer) (1931–2015), American photographer based in Germany; Bill McBride (politician) (1945–2012), 2002 candidate for Florida governor; William V. McBride (1922–2022), general in the United States Air Force, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force