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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.
Patrick Joseph McGuigan (8 December 1939 – 17 March 2014), known as Paddy Joe McGuigan, was an Irish traditional musician and songwriter who played for some years with The Barleycorn folk group.
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 Second World War brought a huge increase in the number of disabled service men and women and a renewed need for the charity’s work. This new generation of the injured and sick were there to be helped alongside the ‘Boys of the Old Brigade’ who required care as never before.
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 ...
Chambers wrote several cornet solos and nearly ninety marches.His most widely known works include The Boys of the Old Brigade (unrelated to the Irish republican song of the same name) and Chicago Tribune, both marches.
A biography of Robert Emmet in two volumes, although not written by Derek Warfield, has been published by him, [citation needed] and a collaboration with Raymond Daly of Tullamore has resulted in the publishing of a critically acclaimed book of lyrics and histories of Irish songs called Celtic and Ireland in Song and Story.
The songs praise the Irish immigrant volunteers who fought for the Union, most of the songs mention Thomas Francis Meagher, Michael Corcoran, and the famous Irish Brigade. " Pat Murphy Of Meagher's Brigade " is the only previously recorded song on the album.