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Ar an leathanach seo

1. Ballad of '98 - The Boys of the Flail (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   Remember your sires darkly butchered
   Your homes and your churches despoiled;
   That a Saxon or traitor is owning
   The land where you sweated and toiled.
   Shall we cringe while they crush us like vermin
   Shall we look on our altars laid low
   With a price on the head of our saggarth
   And the frieze-coated ranks shouted 'No'
   Then Duffry men forward, the yeomen
   Shall never say you turned tail
   They'll be crushed by the giants and the heroes
   Who for weapons are wielding the flail.

   Thus spoke our brave captain, and forward
   We leaped like the waves of the sea
   To the east of the town where the yeomen were posted so gaily to see
   And their weapons gleaned forth like a sunburst
   Behind the grim cannons' black mouth
   And their blood-red flag flew over them gaily
   Just fanned by the winds from the south
   But the cannons grin thunder has opened
   And

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

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      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
         1. 1798 (~642)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Martin Kinsella

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Buaile an Chrainn, Co. Loch Garman

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Kinsella

   Gaol

   Seantuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Buaile an Chrainn, Co. Loch Garman