Anne Byyne The Foggy Dew

Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with another track from a rare 1967 LP by the lovely Irish soprano Anne Byrne. The song tells the story of the Easter Rising but more importantly, it tries to reflect the thoughts of many Irish nationalists at the time who had come to believe that the Irishmen who fought for Britain during the war should have stayed home and fought for Irish independence instead.
O'Neill sums up this feeling in the lines: "‘Twas far better to die ‘neath an Irish sky, Than at Suvla or Sud el Bar."

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