Dunlavin Green

Song
"Dunlavin Green"
Song
GenreIrish folk
Songwriter(s)Traditional

Dunlavin Green is an Irish ballad referring to the Dunlavin Green executions in 1798 of 36 suspected rebels.[1]

Notable recordings

  • 1956 – Patrick Galvin – Irish Songs of Resistance Part I
  • 1975 - Gay Woods and Terry Woods - Backwoods
  • 1975 – Paddy Mahone – Irish Rebellion Album
  • 1978 - Christy Moore - The Iron Behind the Velvet
  • 1986 – Terry Corcoran – Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part
  • 1998 – Dolores Keane – Night Owl
  • 2008 – Karan Casey – Ships in the Forest

See also

  • Dunlavin

References

  1. ^ Fitzpatrick, William John (1866). "The Rebellion in Wicklow - Fusilade in Dunlavin, pp. 308-310". The 'sham squire' and the informers of 1798. Retrieved 5 September 2008.