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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 Boys of Kilmichael" – ballad about the Kilmichael ambush of 1920 "The Boys of the County Cork" – written by Tom Murphy [2] "The Boys of the Old Brigade" – nostalgic ballad which shares the tune of "Wrap the Green Flag Round Me, Boys" about the "old IRA" written by Paddy McGuigan of the Barleycorn [1]
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 - 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 ...
In late 2020, film makers Brendan Hayes and Jerry O'Mullane along with David Sullivan and Bernie O'Regan announced that they were currently working on a documentary called "Forget not the boys". [72] [73] Hayes has already produced work on Sam Maguire, another prominent figure in the war of independence.
A group of Black and Tans and Auxiliaries outside the London and North Western Hotel in Dublin following an IRA attack, April 1921 "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans" is an Irish rebel song, written by Dominic Behan, which criticises and satirises pro-British Irishmen and the actions of the British army in its colonial wars.
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.