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Artist: John McGettigan & his Irish Minstrels
Author: Peadar Kearney
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1937
Written by a brother of Brendan Behan's mother. Kearney was part of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, better known as the Fenians. He wrote it in 1916 during the Easter revolt. He also wrote The Soldier's Song (Amhrán na bhFiann), the Irish national hymn.
Covers:
Delia Murphy [as Down By The Glenside; 'the Queen of Connemara']
Ken Curtis & Sons Of The Pioneers [in John Ford film Rio Grande (with John Wayne); the action takes place during the American Mexican war, when an Irish regiment (the San Patricios) fought alongside catholic Mexicans]
Brendan Behan [idem]
Willie Brady [as Down By The Glenside]
Judy Collins [idem]
Dubliners [idem]
Anne Shelton [idem]
Peg Clancy [sister of the Clancy Brothers]
Wolfe Tones [as Down By The Glenside]
Gregory Page [American with Irish roots]
The Bold Fenian Men is a different Irish traditional, hummed by the old woman in Down By The Glenside: "I listened a while to the song she was humming, Glory O, Glory O, to the Bold Fenian Men". The Fenians (Irish patriotic movement started in New York on St Patrick's Day 1858) struggled for Home Rule in a unified Ireland, free from the British. The song was belted out on both frontlines during the American Civil War.
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