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Thread #3275 Message #640176
Posted By: Big Tim
01-Feb-02 - 03:21 PM
Thread Name: Help: The Foggy Dew: Sud el Bar? Huns?
Subject: RE: The Foggy Dew
The Fighting Men of Crossmaglen is on many a rebel compilation CD, it's a good rebel song, in the tradition of Broad Black Brimmer, but very one-sided, not surprisingly. Re authorship of Foggy Dew I have since done some research in Belfast and found the following: the rebel version was written by Fr.(Canon) CHARLES O'Neill, born in Portglenone in 1887, died Newcastle (Down) in 1963. He was based in parishes in Belfast, Kilcoo and Newcastle. Buried in Newcastle. I got a photo of him with De Valera and Frank Aiken (IRA Chief of Staff in 1923 after death of Liam Lynch, and later minister in Free State Gov). Fr Charles had a brother, Patrick, also a priest with whom he is often confused re authorship of Foggy Dew. Charles NOT Patrick wrote it!