Re: Irish Rebel Songs (Lyrics)
Brú na Boínne
Your mysteries lay hidden in stones that can't speak
Throughout time all your wonderous knowledge we seek
Be ye tomb or ye temple, we'd like to know why
On mid-winter's morning you seek light from the sky
Your white quartz stones must have brightened the days
When the sun shone down and reflected it's rays
You refuse us a key or some Rosette Stone
We just gaze on your symbols, your motiffs and bones
Chorus:
Sing away Brú na Boínne on the banks of the Boyne
Fol de da, for your glory will not yield to time
Glory-O! To the men and the women laid to rest
Who brought greatness to Ireland, the Isle of the Blessed
From your pillars of grandeur an answer is sought
When the tomb of the Pharaohs were only a thought
Irish folk in their labour looked up from the Boyne
To see standing a monument that would not yield to time
You saw chieftains, Na Fianna, and monks stop to call
As they trampled the hills on to Tara's white halls
And they watched on the cradle of our enlightened design
That inspired Irish artists much later in time
Chorus:
Sing away Brú na Boínne on the banks of the Boyne
Fol de da, for your glory will not yield to time
Glory-O! To the men and the women laid to rest
Who brought greatness to Ireland, the Isle of the Blessed
For your place in a county still royal with it's arms
And a river of beauty with countless wild charms
You stand there majestic, a tower on the plain
And your passage of wonder, a secret remains
So be proud of old Eireann, the history long gone
That inspired generations of men later on
Your age is your greatness and a testament still
As you stand Brú na Boínne on a County Meath hill
Chorus:
Sing away Brú na Boínne on the banks of the Boyne
Fol de da, for your glory will not yield to time
Glory-O! To the men and the women laid to rest
Who brought greatness to Ireland, the Isle of the Blessed
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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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