The gold sun of Irish freedom : 1798 in song and story / by Danny Doyle and Terence Folan.
| Author/creator | Doyle, Danny |
| Other author | Faolain, Turlough. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cork : Mercier Press ; Boulder, CO : Irish American Book Co., 1998. |
| Description | 202 pages : illustrations, music ; 20 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The foeman's chains. A fateful wound (poem) / Daibhi O Bruadair ; The outlaw rapparee (song) (traditional) ; The wearin' of the green (song (traditional) ; Song of the lower classes (poem) / Ernest Jones -- The gaol of Cluain Meala (song) / translation, James Joseph Callanan -- The French are on the sea. Watch and wait (song) / John Keegan Casey ; The sash my father wore (song) (traditional) ; The man from God-knows-where (poem) / Florence Wilson ; The Hartlepool monkey (song) / Alan Wilkinson ; The Shan Bhean Bhoct (song) (traditional) -- Croppies, lie down! The rebel heart (song) / Francis A. Fahey ; Croppies, lie down! (song) (traditional) ; Dunlavin green (song) (traditional) -- The heather blazing. Shemus O'Brien (poem) / Sheridan Le Fanu ; The wind that shakes the barley (song) / Robert Dwyer Joyce ; The boys of Wexford (song) / John Kells Ingram ; The croppy boy (song) (traditional) ; Kelly, the boy from Killane (song) / P. J. McCall ; Mary Doyle, the heroine of Ross (poem) / William Rooney -- The holocaust glow. Bagenal Harvey's lament (song) (traditional) ; Father Murphy (song) (traditional) ; The men of ninety-eight (song) (traditional) ; Ballyellis (poem) / William Rooney ; Boolavogue (song) / P. J. McCall -- For antrim town! The swinish multitude (song) (traditional) ; Rody McCorley (song) / Eithne Carberry ; Henry Joy (song) (traditional) ; Brave General Munro (song) (traditional) ; 'Ninety-eight, a centenary ode, 1898 (poem) / William Rooney -- The men of the west. The priest of Adergool (poem) / William Rooney ; The year of the French (song) / Pete St John ; The men of the west (song) / Thomas Davis ; For the terms of their natural lives (song) / Ted Egan -- When the stars of freedom vanished. The ringsend boatman (song) / Pete St John, Danny Doyle ; Anne Devlin (song) / Pete St John ; Bold Robert Emmet (song) (traditional) ; She is far from the land (song) / Thomas Moore ; Twenty men from Dublin town (song) / Arthur Griffith ; Michael Dwyer (song) / Peader Kearney, Paddy Heaney -- Epilogue: When Ireland lay broken and bleeding. The felons of our land (song) (traditional). |
| Abstract | 1998 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the 1798 rebellion, the last popular rebellion against British rule in Ireland until the War of Independence. Its republicanism was inspired by both the American Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution. This book, written and compiled by renowned Irish ballad singer Danny Doyle and author/historian Terence Folan, combines a linking narrative with the history, songs and poetry of the rebellion of 1798. The narrative gives a straightforward, readable account of the background to 1798 and the important events and personalities of the rebellion itself, in Ulster and in Wexford, as well as the French landings in Connacht. Stirring traditional ballads such as 'Who Fears to Speak of Ninety-eight?', 'The Shan Bhan Bhocht', 'Boolavogue', 'The Wearing of the Green', 'Kelly the Boy from Killane' and 'Bodenstown Churchyard' come complete with musical notation and simple guitar chords. |
| General note | Includes unaccompanied melodies with chord symbols; English words. |
| ISBN | 1856352080 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML3654 .D69 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |