Three patriotic songs to commemorate Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising. McCormack, Robeson, O'Neill

0:00 John McCormack : The wearing of the green : Rec 1912
This is actually a song lamenting the repression of supporters of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
It's a noisy old recording but a great favourite of mine.
2:42 Paul Robeson : The Minstrel Boy Rec 1950?
This song is said to have been written by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) in remembrance of those who died in the 1798 Irish rebellion. He set the song to a traditional Irish melody called "The Moreen"
4:50 Terry O'Neill : The day : rec date not known
This song was sung by the rebels besieged in the GPO in 1916. It was written by Brian O'Higgins who was one of the rebels in the GPO in 1916 and it is sung to the Air of the Rising of the Moon. It is in praise of earlier patriots who fought to achieve freedom for Ireland. The words of the song are
O, God rest you, Robert Emmet
And God rest you, noble Tone,
God rest you, Hugh O'Donnell,
And O'Neill of brave Tyrone;
God rest you, Patrick Sarsfield,
In your grave far, far away;
God rest you all who strove to speed
The Dawning of the Day.

Freedom's bright and blessed Day!
Ireland free from Saxon sway!
Lift your hearts and pray God speed us
To the Dawning of the Day!

Not in vain you poured your life-blood,
Gallant hearts of 'Ninety-Eight,
Not in vain you stood undaunted
'Neath the scourge of English hate;
Men of Wexford, Men of Antrim,
Men whose names shall ne'er decay,
But shall shine like stars to lead us
To the Dawning of the Day!
Chorus .

O'er the fields your blood has hallowed,
O, ye hosts of Irish Dead!
In the light of Freedom's morning
Men of Ireland soon shall tread;
When the foeman reels before them
In the thunder of the fray,
They shall shout your name in triumph
At the Dawning of the Day!
Chorus .
The Irish poet W.B.Yeats wrote a poem "Easter 1916" and the words of the last verse are on screen at the end of the video but are difficult to read so here they are again
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse—
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

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