RISING OF THE MOON, THE

Created on 26/01/2023
Latest update on 25/05/2023

Artist: Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Author: John Keegan Casey/Trad.
Label: Tradition
Year: 1956

Album title track, subtitled Irish Songs Of Rebellion. Referring to the 1798 uprising of the United Irishmen (under Theobald Wolfe Tone) and the British, using a poem by John Keegan Casey and the tune of Irish traditional The Wearing Of The Green, another song dealing with the 1798 Rebellion. Roud #9634.

Covers:

1957:

Richard Dyer-Bennet

1960:

Theodore Bikel

1962:

Judy Collins

1963:

Limeliters [as By The Rising Of The Moon]

1965:

Peter, Paul & Mary

1967:

Dubliners

1972:

Dublin City Ramblers

1974:

Fairport Convention

1986:

Schooner Fare

1994:

Shane MacGowan & The Popes

2011:

High Kings

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