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Thread #51813 Message #791180
Posted By: Big Tim
25-Sep-02 - 02:50 PM
Thread Name: Help: The Foggy Dew (Fr. O'Neill): tune?
Subject: RE: Help: Foggy Dew (1916) Tune
FATHER O'Neill wrote the lyrics in 1919 after being disapointed at some of the bickering among republicans in the Provisional Dail (Parliament) of 1919. He saw it as being in sharp contrast with the heroic sacrifice made by the rebels of the 1916 Rising against British rule who had given their lives for a pure, independent republic.