“Sean South of Garryowen” is a song about
Seán South
Seán South ( ga, Seán Sabhat; – 1 January 1957)''A New Dictionary of Irish History from 1800'', D.J. Hickey & J.E. Doherty, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 2003, Pg.452 was a member of an IRA military column led by Seán Garland on a raid agains ...
, (written by Seán Costelloe) a member of the
Pearse Column Pearse may refer to:
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of the
Irish Republican Army
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, who was fatally wounded during the attack on
Brookeborough
Brookeborough (; Irish: ''Achadh Lon'', meaning 'Field of the Blackbirds') is a village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, at the westerly foot of Slieve Beagh. It lies about eleven miles east of Enniskillen, just off the A4 trunk road, and ...
barracks in 1957. It is sung to the same tune as “
Roddy McCorley
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". The words were first published in the ''
Irish Catholic
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'', the Irish weekly
Roman Catholic
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newspaper, within a week of South's death.
Contrary to popular belief, South was not actually from the area of
Garryowen, this being poetic licence on the part of the writer. The song was translated into Swedish in 2008 by musicians Björn Alling and Conny Olsson. It has also been satirised in
the Rubberbandits
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song "Up da Ra", from their 2011 album
Serious About Men
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.
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Notes
External links
Lyrics to the Wolftones version
{{Irish rebel songs
Irish songs