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Thread #6784   Message #2004239
Posted By: Declan
22-Mar-07 - 02:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Oro Se Do Bhaile (from Dubliners)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Oro Se Do Bhaile (from Dubliners)
SLight correction on the first line of Verse 1.

I am almost certain it should read
"Sé do bheatha a Bhanba léanmhar"
Banba is an old poetic name for Ireland.

I'm intrigued that the line about gan bheith bheó ach seachtain. Only living for a week afterwards. I had always thought this was a reference to the fact that the 1916 rebellion of which Pearse was one of the leaders lasted exacly a week. It now looks as if this line was part of the Jacobite song on which Pearse based his song. Prophetic or what?