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The fourth event to mark the 150th anniversary of the Fenian Rising in Tipperary will take place on Wednesday week, October 11th, in Brú Boru, Cashel starting at 7.30pm.
This is an evening of song, music and short lectures recalling the importance of the ballad in telling the story of generations of Irish republicans in Tipperary’s history. The singing of “The Galtee Mountain Boy” in Croke Park after winning an All-Ireland demonstrates the importance of song in our shared Tipperary culture and history.
2017 is the 150th anniversary of the year of the Fenian Rising of 1867, but the historical connections of Fenianism and Republicanism stretch back to the United Irishmen of 1798 and the Young Irelanders of 1848 as well as leading forward to the Land Wars of the 1880s and up to the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence. Songs on the night from 1798 like “Boolavogue” sung by Nora Butler and “The Foggy Dew” from 1916 sung by ‘Cahir to Sing’ Choir will tell us a great deal of our historical narrative in a very memorable way.
Highlights at the event include Michael Kenny, formerly of the National Museum, who will give the background story of Tipperary revolutionary Charles J Kickham’s anti-recruiting song “The Ballad of Patrick Sheehan”. We will also hear a short account of Tipperary Fenian, Thomas F Bourke from Fethard who, having returned to Ireland from the US where he was on the losing Confederate side of the American Civil War, led the Tipperary Fenians into the skirmish at Ballyhurst, between Cashel and Tipperary.
The concert is taking place in Brú Boru in Cashel with kind permission of Comhaltas Ceoltorí Éireann. The group is working with local historical societies and is supported by Tipperary County Council to arrange events.
