Talk:Killaloe March
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[edit] "popular with Irish Regiments"
This entry originally stated hat the march was pppular with Irish Regiments. Popularity is impossible to measure but only 2 have had it as a Regimental March - the Royal Irish Regiment and their predecessors the Royal Irish Rangers.
- and one of their predecessor regiments as well! And that is before you take into account the one-time use as an unofficial march by the Connaught Rangers and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. It was also used at brigade level in WW2 by the 38th (Irish) Infantry Brigade, who obviously do not have regimental marches. I think popular is justified!
[edit] History
Even better! Good compromise! --hydeblake 10:45, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
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This was placed on the main page more appropriate here I think!
It seems that this song has many versions. Let me tell you about mine. This record was bought in Dublin, Ireland, in 1943, and had been sitting on the shelves for years. It was made by a man named Bert Gordon, who, copying the old Eddie Cantor Show participant, also called himself "The Mad Russian". He had a Belfast accent. I misplaced it years ago. The first words were the same as those above...."Shure I happent to get born, at the time they cut the corn, quite contageous to the town of Killaloo....etc" The chorus, however went like this" Weell, ye may talk about ecartay, or even Bonypartay, and anny other party and commong de portay voo....We larnt to sing it aiyseeey...That song the Marshalayseeey....Boolong Toolong the Continong....We larnt at Killaloe. This is, in my opinion a very old, authentic Irish folk tune commemorating a survivor of one of the French Revolutionaery Army attempts to land in Ireland, who ended up in Killaloe, on the banks of the River Shannon, near Limerick, around the end of the 18th Century. Bonaparte is mentioned, also Toulon,and the Continent, from where the French naval fleets departed. There is a private solo version, made in 1961 by a 92 year old folksinger, a Killaloe resident, who said he was taught it by his Grandmother, a copy of which I was able to get from a University Folk Library.
