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Thread #8741   Message #55488
Posted By: Annraoi
24-Jan-99 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: Jacobite Songs
Subject: RE: Jacobite Songs
Another Jacobite song is that known in Tyrone as "A Shéarlais Óig, a Mhic Rí Shéamuis." I believe Pádraig Mac Piarais adapted the words in his "Óró, 'Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile." Prof. G. Stockman of Queen's University, Belfast, collected a version from an old Irish speaker in the Sperrin Mountains of Tyrone in the 1950/60's (?). Annraoi