I just did a little quick checking. It seems that the author of Down By The Glenside, Peadar Kearney, was born in 1883 and died in 1942. Fr. Michael Scanlan, author of Bold Fenian Men, was born in 1931. It seems a fair deduction that Down By The Glenside (Bold Fenian Men) predates the song The Bold Fenian Men. Nonetheless, in the singing in the emigrant community I was around growing up, Down By the Glenside was the way it was referred to, with the other being The Bold Fenian Men. I have been doing them both for years.

All the best,

Mick