The line in the song that has been much repeated in this thread "O' Doherty screamed, woken out of a dream, by a vision of bold Robert dyin'" is actually " by a vision of bold Robert Emmet"-a reference to the great fenian patriot and poet who was martyred in 1803. Robert Emmets final words were " Let no man gravestone remain uninscribed, when my country takes her place among the nations of the earth-then, and not 'til then let my epitaph be written"