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Arnold Rypens
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Artist: John McCormack
Author: Robert Dwyer Joyce/Arthur Warren Darby
Label: Regal
Year: 1922
With another Irish Rebellion song on the B-side (Croppy Boy - see there). R.D. Joyce also wrote The Wind That Shakes The Barley (see there). The John McCormack recording credits J.J. Johnson. Roud #3015. See also: Boolavogue. We Are The Boys Of Wexford is mentioned by James Joyce in the Circe episode of Ulysses.
Covers:
Wallace House [on Folkways album Irish Songs Of Resistance]
Irish Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus [on cd Who Fears To Speak - The Official 1798 Bicentenary Commemorative Album]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)