I don't know what information Joe sent when he e-mailed you, but I did indicate the source in my original posting above.(which I try to do where possible) I picked up a folk song book, Songs of the Miramachi(a terrible addiction I know) at an Irish Festival in N.B. while I was visiting St. John.

It appears to be a Fenian song written after the Famine, but before the Easter Rising. Many of these were printed on ballad sheets to known melodies and used to raise sympathy for the cause.

I am pleased to be of help. I am glad to see that a singing tradition is still alive in Newfoundland.

Brían.