Very interesting reading in these earlier threads.

I had always (wrongly) assumed that the line about only lasting for a week had been written about the (week long) 1916 rising after the event. It seems that this line was in the earlier Jacobite song, which I was also unaware of. You learn something new here at Mudcat every day.

Interesting co-incidence about the line about lasting a week (if it was a co-incidence!)