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KEVIN BARRY (1902 - 1920)
Executed, Age 18, by British authorities.
Fighting for Ireland's freedom, he refused to inform on his friends.
A song commemorating Kevin Barry has been sung by artists such as Lonnie Donegan and Paul Robeson.
Leonard Cohen also sang this song, and a rare recording of him singing it in Israel on his 1972 tour recently surfaced online.
Here it is:
In Mountjoy jail one Monday morning
High upon the gallows tree
Kevin Barry gave his young life
For the cause of liberty
Just a lad of eighteen summers
Yet there's no one can deny
As he walked to death that morning
He proudly held his head on high
Just before he faced the hangman
In his dreary prison cell
British soldiers tortured Barry
Just because he would not tell
The names of his brave comrades
And other things they wished to know
"Turn informer or we'll kill you"
Kevin Barry answered "No"
Another martyr for old Ireland
Another murder for the crown
Whose brutal laws may kill the Irish
But can't keep their spirits down
Lads like Barry are no cowards
From the foe they will not fly
Lads like Barry will free Ireland
For her sake they'll live and die
Shoot me like an Irish soldier
Do not hang me like a dog
For I fought for Ireland's freedom
On that dark September morn
All around the little bakery
We fought them hand to hand
Shoot me like an Irish soldier
For I died for Ireland
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Wikipedia article on Kevin Barry
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Executed, Age 18, by British authorities.
Fighting for Ireland's freedom, he refused to inform on his friends.
A song commemorating Kevin Barry has been sung by artists such as Lonnie Donegan and Paul Robeson.
Leonard Cohen also sang this song, and a rare recording of him singing it in Israel on his 1972 tour recently surfaced online.
Here it is:
In Mountjoy jail one Monday morning
High upon the gallows tree
Kevin Barry gave his young life
For the cause of liberty
Just a lad of eighteen summers
Yet there's no one can deny
As he walked to death that morning
He proudly held his head on high
Just before he faced the hangman
In his dreary prison cell
British soldiers tortured Barry
Just because he would not tell
The names of his brave comrades
And other things they wished to know
"Turn informer or we'll kill you"
Kevin Barry answered "No"
Another martyr for old Ireland
Another murder for the crown
Whose brutal laws may kill the Irish
But can't keep their spirits down
Lads like Barry are no cowards
From the foe they will not fly
Lads like Barry will free Ireland
For her sake they'll live and die
Shoot me like an Irish soldier
Do not hang me like a dog
For I fought for Ireland's freedom
On that dark September morn
All around the little bakery
We fought them hand to hand
Shoot me like an Irish soldier
For I died for Ireland
----------------------------------------------------------------
Wikipedia article on Kevin Barry
Leonard Cohen Died The Day Before America Died... Leonard Cohen For Beginners
Marianne Faithful Live Paris Tribute To Leonard Cohen "Tower Of Song" At Bataclan, scene of last year's terror attack, Redemption....
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