An anachronism in my rendering of the text: "reading out the news" should be "sending out the news"; this would be a song from around 1916. Crilly and Grogan's page shows a question mark instead of 'Cumann na mBan'- the women's league (of the IRA); the B shows the derivation of the word, but is not pronounced. They also don't spell "Grainne Mhaol"(also known as Granuaile and Grace O'Malley; the Mh has a w sound) correctly. I still can't remember any details about the predecesor of this song.