SLIEVENAMON

Frank McGrath wrote at Mudcat thread "Info on "Slieve na mBan"
"The line "To see our flag unrolled"... the Irish Tricolour, our national flag ... was unrolled for the first time on Slievenamon on the 16th July in 1848 by Thomas Francis Meagher at an enormous protest/rebellion meeting. The flag was inspired by the French Tricolour and signifies peace "White" between the "Green" nationalists and "Orange" the followers of William of Orange or Unionists."

Tom Finn sang Kickham's "Slievnamon" at the online Courthouse Session tonight, 16 July 2021. Tom gave much the same information in his introduction and said that Kickham himself was present at the rally where the future national flag of Ireland, the tricolour, was first raised.

(Not to be confused with another song Sliabh na mBan, which was composed in Ireland but has also been translated to English. Sliabh na mBan, transliterated as Slievenamon, means the Mountain of the Women, and it is an actual mountain in south County Tipperary.)