Author name: beerbellycollection

Loved a girl from a Galway town But our love could never be For I longed to see the world And the treasures it held for me So I left my need of home Sailed

Near Oranmore in the county Galway One pleasant evening in the month of may I spied a damsel she was fair and winsome Her beauty fairly stole my heart away

Sad are three homes in Belfast now All Ireland she shares their sorrow Mairead Farrel, Sean Savage and Daniel McCann They died on the streets of Gibraltar

Way down in the County Kerry In a place they call Tralee A fine old couple they lived there Named Kate and Pat McGee They were going to give a caile On the

As we gather in the chapel here in Old Kilmainham Jail I think about these past few days, oh will they say we’ve failed From our schooldays they have told

Far across yonder blue lies a true fairy land With the sea rippling over the shingle and sand Where the gay honeysuckle is luring the bee And the green gle

Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride, Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside, And rest for a while neath the warm summer sun, I’ve been worl

High upon the gallows tree swung the noble-hearted Three. By the vengeful tyrant stricken in their bloom; But they met him face to face, with the courage o

You’ve heard of the Gresford Disaster, Of the terrible price that was paid; Two hundred and forty two colliers were lost, And three of the rescue brigade.