The Bloody History Behind Conor McGregor's Walkout Song: The Easter Rising

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In this historical analysis of “The Foggy Dew,” we'll see that the song is a lot more than Conor McGregor’s walkout song. The history behind this hundred-year-old song is a long and bloody one. To fully understand the Easter Rising and the emotions of the lyrics in “The Foggy Dew,” we first take a very general overview of some of the atrocities that occurred in Ireland under British rule. We then cover the 1916 rebellion for Irish independence, called the Easter Rising, and the song’s sorrowful commentary on the event.

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Sources:

Beckles, Hilary McD. “A ‘Riotous and Unruly Lot’: Irish Indentured Servants and Freemen in the English West Indies, 1644-1713.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 4, 1990, pp. 503–522. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2937974. Accessed 10 Jan. 2020.

Dregne, Lukas, "Just Warfare, or Genocide?: Oliver Cromwell and the Siege of Drogheda" (2017). Undergraduate Theses and Professional Papers. 175. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/utpp/175

Engler, S., et al. “The Irish Famine of 1740-1741: Famine Vulnerability and ‘Climate Migration.’” Climate of the Past, vol. 9, no. 3, 2013, pp. 1161–1179., doi:10.5194/cp-9-1161-2013.

Kinealy, Christine. “International Relief Efforts During the Famine.” Irish America, 2009, irishamerica.com/2009/08/international-relief-efforts-during-the-famine/.

Lenihan, Pádraig. Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1727. Routledge, 2016.

McNally, Michael, and Peter Dennis. Easter Rising 1916: Birth of the Irish Republic. Osprey Pub., 2007.

Murphy, Pauline. “Celebrating 100 Years of ‘Foggy Dew’ and It's History.” IrishCentral.com, 9 Feb. 2019, www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/100-anniversary-song-foggy-dew-history-charles-oneill.
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