No, Douglas, it's not bad form at all to revive an old thread when you have relevant information to add or a relevant question to ask. It's better than starting a new thread. We like to have all the discussion about one song in one thread. I just hope you don't consider it bad form to copy the lyrics here that you so carefully transcribed and annotated.

HONOUR BRIGHT
Peter Yeates

Well, in 1925,
Dublin was a hive
Of activity, 'cause change was a-comin' down.
Frank Duff wasted no time
With his ladies of the L. of M.
They set about to clear out Monto town.

And across the city quays,
A girl from the Liberties
Was doin' all she could just to get by.
Oh, the green that was her beat
And the lads that she loved to meet
All knew her by the name of "Honour Bright".

CHORUS: Who was it did it, and who can tell us why?
And some, they say, said she was no loss.
Everybody knew
It was a doctor and the screw
Left her in a ditch near Lamb Doyle's Cross.

Well, that evening in June,
"Her Honour" was in tune
As she headed for her turf just to meet her star.
When two men in a car did show
Near the top of Merrion Row
And to their delight she stepped inside the car.

Well, they quickly turned the keys,
And this girl from the Liberties
Was never again to see the broad daylight.
For on the Ticknock mountain grounds,
They laid her body down,
And they killed the girl we knew as "Honour Bright". CHORUS

Now, in 1975,
Dublin was a hive
Of activity, 'cause change was a-comin' down.
Oh, the folks, they planned to meet.
They were goin' to clear the streets
From Merrion Square and Mount Street to Lansdowne.

Well, on the same side of the quays,
A ghost of the Liberties
Was doin' all she could just to get by.
Oh, the green that was her beat
And the lads that she used to meet
Are the retrospective view of "Honour Bright". CHORUS TWICE

[As sung by the Jolly Rogers on their album "Loose Cannons;" by Old Triangle (of which Peter Yeates was a member) on "Grande Affaire" (1984); by Full Shilling (of which Peter Yeates is a member) on "Full Shilling" (date unknown—but there's a sound sample at CD Baby), and by Peter Yeates on "Just to Get By" (date unknown) and "Back in the Middle" (1996).]