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Thread #159117   Message #3769204
Posted By: Young Buchan
29-Jan-16 - 06:47 PM
Thread Name: Songs about Sean MacDiarmada/Sean McDermott
Subject: RE: Sean MacDiarmada/Sean McDermott
Sean MacDiarmid makes an equally fleeting appearance in a song by Peadar Kearney called A Row in a Town.[Kearney was the writer of Amhrán na bhFiann, and the brother of Kathleen who married Stephen Behan and gave birth to all the obvious.]

The relevant verse is:

God rest gallant Pearse and his comrades who died:
Tom Clarke, McDonagh, MacDiarmid, McBride.
And here's to Sean Heuston who gave one hurrah
And faced the machine guns for Erin Go Bragh.