Re Banna Strand, the first line "Twas on Good Friday morning, all in the month of May" does not make historical sense. The events took place on Good Friday in April 1916 as the guns were intended for use in the Easter Rebellion that month. I prefer to sing "Twas on Good Friday morning, just at the break of day". Also it was three "boys" not two who "met their doom"; Con Keating of Cahersiveen, Charles Monaghan of Belfast and Donald Sheehan of Newcastlewest. The driver Thomas McInerney was the only one to survive the plunge into the water at Ballykissane Pier, Killorglin. In 1919 he was again on IRA duty when he drove Dan Breen and Sean Hogan to Limerick after the ambush at Soloheadbeg which is generally said to have unleashed the War of Independence (The Anglo-Irish War).