My apologies, Declan. I just went searching for a song by that name and found mostly sites with songs about the birds, not the Irish. http://indigo.ie/~wildgees/wildgees.htm I think there may NOT be such a song--something that would really surprise me given Ireland's love of it history and the love of its sonwriters to commemorate that history.

I read the phrase on Mudcat somewhere, but it must have been in relation to the Irish soldiers who were fighting in various places and under various flags. Sorry for side-lining the discussion here.