The Vow of Tipperary by Thomas Osborne Davis

1 year ago
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Only one more track to finish for the Return to Tipperary album.

I found this song while researching the famous Slievenamon poem. It doesn't seem to have been set to music before.

The thumbnail lithograph is of the United Irish Patriots of 1798:
https://rebelvoice.blog/2018/07/09/introduction-to-united-irishmen-rebellion-of-1798/

Thomas was writing some 40 years later, but was inspired by the ideas of this group. Key to his ideas was a making Irish the language of a united Ireland.

According to Wikipedia, Thomas was born in Cork and lived in Dublin and doesn't seem to have any association with Tipperary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Davis_(Young_Irelander)

Photos from Pixabay are of Cork and Tipperary.

Poem words here (some versions are missing a verse):
https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E850004-030/text001.html

#Tipperary #Ireland

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