School: Ladhar (C.), Bán-Tír (roll number 8665)
- Location:
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Chéilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 054
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- While we honour in song and in story
The memory of Pearse and Mc Bride
Whose name's are illumined in glory
The martyr's that likewise have died
Forget not the boys of Kilmachial
Who feared not the hand of the foe
The day they were marched into battle
They laid the Black and Tans low
Chorus
Hurrah for the boys of Kilmichael,
Those brave lads so gallant and true
Who fought 'neath the greenflag of Erin
And conquered the red, white and blue.
And over the hills came the echo.
The peal of the rifle and gun
The flames from the lorries gave token
That the boys of Kilmichael had won.
II
The lorries were out before twilight,
And high over Dunmanway town
The green flag was floating in triumph,
As the foe of our country went down,
We gathered the guns and the rifles
And we left that old spot so obscure
And we never drew rein till we halted
In that far away camp in Glenure.
