Artist: Denis Cox
Author: traditional
Label: Parlophone
Year: 1928

#1425 in George Petrie's The Complete Collection Of Irish Music (1855). Irish 'hauling home' poem (means: You Are Welcome Home) to the tune of Forde Joyce's Bringing Home The Bride (1909), sang by the bridegroom while welcoming his newly wed bride. Sea shanty melodically related with Drunken Sailor. Lyrics allegorically mention Grace O'Malley (Grainne Mhaol or Gránuaile), a Galway pirate chieftain of legendary renown, fighting the armada of Elizabeth I in the Irish Sea. Alternative title: An Dord Fianna (Call Of The Fighters), an invitation to all Irishmen fighting with England to come home and rebel against the ancient foe on their own island. Pearse who added a few verses was an Irish nationalist, son of an English father and an Irish mother, who joined the Gaelic League in 1910. He was an avid advocate for the use of the Irish language. While England was distracted in Europe fighting in the trenches, he preached the revolution and played a crucial role in the (failed) Easter Rebellion of 1916. Along with 14 companions he was executed. One of Dublin's train stations is named after him.

Pearse's poem used a Jacobine example: poem Séarlas Og, substituting Granuaile with (Bonny Prince) Charles, son of King James. But he was a Scott (and a loser) supported by French and Spanish sailors, Grace O'Malley's boat was filled with Irishmen.