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"Bonny Portmore" is an Irish traditional folk song which laments the demise of Ireland's old oak forests, specifically the Great Oak of Portmore or the Portmore Ornament Tree, which fell in a windstorm in 1760 and was subsequently used for shipbuilding and other purposes.
During the first 75 years of the 20th century, forestry in Ireland was almost exclusively carried out by the state. By 1985, forest and woodland cover was approximately 420,000 hectares. Upon the first arrival of humans in Ireland around 12,500 years ago, the entire island was predominantly covered in a blanket of thick woodland.
"Foggy Dew" is the name of several Irish ballads, and of an Irish lament.The most popular song of that name (written by Fr.Charles O'Neill) chronicles the Easter Rising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than for the British Empire, as so many young men were doing in World War I.
The Gearagh (Irish: An Gaorthadh) [2] is a submerged glacial woodland and nature reserve two kilometres southwest of Macroom, County Cork, in Kilmichael parish, Ireland. It is located at the point where the River Lee descends from the mountains and widens at an alluvial plain, and stretches for roughly five kilometres, bounded by the townlands ...
Gougane Barra (Irish: Guagán Barra, meaning 'the rock-cleft of Barra') [1] is a scenic valley and heritage site in the Shehy Mountains of County Cork, Ireland. It is near Ballingeary in the Muskerry Gaeltacht. Gougane Barra is at the source of the River Lee and includes a lake with an oratory built on a small island. It also includes a forest ...
Now though I have wandered this wide world over, Still Ireland's my home and a parent to me. Then O, let the turf that my bosom shall cover Be cut from the ground that is trod by the free. And when in his cold arms Death shall embrace me, Och! lull me asleep with sweet 'Erin-go-Bragh', By the side of my Kathleen, my first love, then place me,
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It continues to be very popular till today, and has been covered by many other German artists. In Wader's version the soldier's name is unknown, and the lyrics are more accusatory in tone than in Bogle's version, with the German version's refrain going "They [i.e. the government] lied to you then, just like they still lie to us today".