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Thread #27824   Message #343137
Posted By: MartinRyan
18-Nov-00 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: Irish reconciliation song?
Subject: RE: Irish reconciliation song?
There were a number of 19C. "Orange meets Green" songs and recitations. Sparling's "Irish Minstrelsy" has an impossibly long called "Orange and Green", written by Gerald Griffin. I think Thomas Davis of The Nation wrote one also - but don't have it to hand. "Blue cockade" sounds odd - green cockades were a badge of nationalists from early 19C., as far as I know."Easter lily" would make it much later.

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