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Thread #78811   Message #1475567
Posted By: ard mhacha
01-May-05 - 07:14 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Belfast Mountains
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Belfast Mountains
Tim, we always referred to this version of Henry Joy as The Belfast Mountains,to avoid confusing Jane Cassidy`s song with five more "Henry Joy" songs.

The well know one begins, "An Ulsterman I am proud to be, from Antrim`s glens i`ve come" and another begins, " Each noble chief of Antrim has given his plighted word, each patriot son of Antrim has buckled on his sword", Anon.

And, "Come all ye Belfast people and listen here a while, a true story I will relate of a young man without guile". Anon

also this Henry Joy the author Fintan Byrne written in 1963 to the air of, The flower of sweet Strabane, "I wish I was in Belfast town, in years of long ago, when Henry Joy McCracken, was convicted and laid low".

Also "Harry`s Sword", and The execution of McCracken, a poem written by T,S,C. Corry first published in 1875.