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Seamus de Burca, Dublin: Litho Press 1976, 46pp.

 

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“The Soldier’s Song”: is quoted by name only by Peter in The Plough and the Stars: ‘I felt a burnin’ lump in me throat when I head th’ band playin; “The Soldiers’ Song” [sic], rememberin’ last hearin’ it marchin’ in military formation with th’ people starin’ on both sides at us, carrin’ with us the pride an; resolution o’ Dublin to th’ gave of Wolfe Tone.’ (Sean O’Casey, Three Plays, Pan edn.

Ballykinlar (or Ballykinler), Co. Down, an army camp used for prisoners in the Irish War of Independence, is the subject of chapters in an autobiography by Louis J. Walsh (On My Keeping and Theirs, 1921) - see under Walsh, q.v. E. H. Mikhail (London: Macmillan 1988), pp.83-86.[ top ]Various ballads [gen.

Either way, Peadar Kearney was certainly not going to miss the Rising after doing one man’s part in helping to bring it about.

peadar kearney biography of albert

Letters from Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1921 (P. Gathered at Matt McGrath’s forge in Ballynahinch ... Kearney died in relative poverty in Inchicore in 1942. [...]’ [Cont.]

Seamus de Burca (The Soldier’s Song: The Story of Ó Cearnaigh 1957) - cont. / One of the Liverpool stage hands standing by had overheard the quarrel: “I heard that, Kirney,” the man said.

[...; p.74]
 Macaulay based his history on documents that did not exist. [...] Still, when we have finished the latest thriller can turn to Macaulay’s six volumes of History and revel in the feat of a master of language proving how easy it is to bamboozle people [...]
The least of Macaulay’s sins was elaborate misquotation. [1958].

  • Down by the Liffey Side: Humourous Dublin Ballad [1931].
  • Johnny, words and music by O’Cearnaigh, arr.

    in Glasnevin]; Brendan Behan was a nephew, being the son of his sis. Men of the Pale! J. Bourke, 1975), 45pp. In the Easter Rising of 1916 Kearney fought at Jacob's biscuit factory under Thomas MacDonagh, abandoning an Abbey Theatre tour in England to take part in the Rising. “But I must go,” Peadar insisted. “If you let down the Company now you won’t get a job in any theatre in Dublin.

    When some of them went on strike, the directors were summoned.