Lyr Add: Ireland's Thirty Two

Subject: Lyr Add: IRELAND'S THIRTY TWO
From: Brack&
Date: 12 Oct 98 - 10:12 PM

Help, if you know this song do me a favour and check the words for me. I not sure if they're all correct.

Regards Mick Bracken

IRELAND'S THIRTY TWO

There's in Ulster nine in all
Armagh Antrim Donegal
Here's to Cavan and to Derry and Tyrone
To Fermanagh, Monaghan, Down
We'll throw out the puppet's crown
Until Ireland's thirty two is all our own

The here's to old Ireland undivided
To all good Irishmen and true
The North, the South, the East and West
They will be forever blessed
One for all and all for Ireland's thirty two

On to Leinster now we go
Dublin, Longford and Wicklow
Through to Carlow, Louth Kilkenny and Kildare
To Westmeath, to Meath and Leix
Full of nature's beauty scene
While Offaly and Wexford take their share

Limerick and the treaty stone
Has in Ireland's history shown
Why Kerry sent O'Connell on to Clare
Brilliant Meagher of the sword
Forced the light in Waterford
Rebel Cork and Tipperary do and dare

Connacht province has but five
The West's awake and much alive
Sligo, Galway and Roscommon fought the foe
Leitrim out of Shannon's fame
Singing high I proudly name
Of that grand and lovely county of Mayo

Subject: RE: Ireland's Thirty Two
From: alison
Date: 13 Oct 98 - 10:31 AM

Hi Mick,

Don't know the song but I reckon it should be Laois (pronounce roughly Lee-sha), in verse three.

1st verse Down is a county. That makes up your 9 counties in that verse.

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Ireland's Thirty Two
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 13 Oct 98 - 11:05 AM

Leix is an old spelling of Laois(e). The "e" is silent!
"Down" is, indeed, in Ulster.

Regards

Subject: RE: Ireland's Thirty Two
From: Brack&
Date: 16 Oct 98 - 04:39 AM

Thanks Alison and Martin. It was the last verse I more concerned about. Mick Bracken

Subject: RE: Ireland's Thirty Two
From: GUEST,Paddy(1)
Date: 11 Apr 00 - 07:49 PM

Brakn

I can't see much wrong with the last verse

maybe the last two lines should read

Singing high the proudest name
Of that grand and lovely county of Mayo

Just a thought ... (very late at night!)

Paddy(1)

Subject: RE: Ireland's Thirty Two
From: GUEST,Saoirse
Date: 11 Apr 00 - 08:21 PM

"We'll throw out the puppet's crown Until Ireland's thirty two is all our own"

Great song. Pity it falls on deaf ears.