Re: Irish Rebel Songs (Lyrics)
The Soldiers of Cumann na mBan
All honour to Óglaigh na hÉireann,
All praise to the men of our race,
Who, in day of betrayal and slavery,
Saved Ireland from ruin and disgrace.
But do not forget in your praising,
Of them and the deeds they have done,
Their loyal and true-hearted comrades,
The soldiers of Cumann na mBan.
They stand for the honour of Ireland,
As their sisters in days that are gone,
And they'll march with their brothers to freedom,
The soldiers of Cumann na mBan.
All honour to Óglaigh na hÉireann,
All praise to the men of our race,
Who, in day of betrayal and slavery,
Saved Ireland from ruin and disgrace.
But do not forget in your praising,
Of them and the deeds they have done,
Their loyal and true-hearted comrades,
The soldiers of Cumann na mBan.
They stand for the honour of Ireland,
As their sisters in days that are gone,
and they'll march with their brothers to freedom,
The soldiers of Cumann na mBan.
No great-hearted daughter of Ireland,
Who died for her sake long ago,
Who stood in the gap of her danger,
Defying the Sassenach foe,
Was ever more gallant or worthy,
Of glory in high sounding rann,
than the comrades of Óglaigh na hÉireann,
The soldiers of Cumann na mBan!
O, high beat the hearts of our Mother,
The day she had longed for is nigh,
When the sunlight of joy and of freedom,
Shall glow in the eastern sky;
And none shall be honoured more proudly,
That morning by chieftan and clan,
Than the daughters who served in her danger,
The soldiers of Cumann na mBan!
They stand for the honour of Ireland,
As their sisters in days that are gone,
And they'll march with their brothers to freedom,
The soldiers of Cumann na mBan.
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil
- Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922)
The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth.
For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish.
- Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596).
The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation.
- Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature
Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation.
- Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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