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Default Re: Irish Rebel Songs (Lyrics)
A battle hymn (- Countess Markevitz)

Armed for the battle kneel we before thee
Bless thou our banners,God of the brave!!
Ireland is living! Shout we exulant
Ireland is waking, hands grasp the sword
Who fights for Ireland,God guide his blows home
Who died for Ireland,God give him peace!
Knowing our cause just,march we triumphant
Lying or dying Ireland to free!
The spirit of freedom floats in the ether
Souls of our hero's marched by out side
Tone is our battle-cry: Emmet inspires us
Those who for Freedom fall never shall die
England is breaking! shout we exultant
England is beaten - Ireland is free!!!!!!
Charge for the old cause, down with the old foe
Giving our hearts blood, Ireland be free!

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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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