Connaught Ranger {Lay Him Away O'er The Hillside} Folkstones

[57devlin]

Anne Carroll is her name I played in the Folkstones with Anne many years ago I met her yesterday this LP was recorded in 1968

[NipperM846]

Question: Does anyone on here know where men in the Irish Republic would have signed up to join the Connaught Rangers in the 1900s?

[danoization]

my family where officers in the connacht rangers for several centuries not legionaries.

[Liam987hebbo]

I am English/Irish man. My Irish mother from Mayo. Long live the Connaught Rangers. True men but few for had they died by Pearse & Connolly side they would have served their people well.

[ajferet]

Yes and no. Pearse and Connoly could not have offered the adventure of service in India or elswhere. Men who chose to join regiments like the Connaught Rangers were a bit like Foreign Legionaries , serving for adventure as much as the King's shilling. If they were not interested in adventure, they'd have joined a regiment of no-particular distinction

[aidpec]

what adventure could have been better than taking on the most powerfull empire in the world who dares to speak of easter week....

[ajferet]

Some would say "none," but it is a historical fact that the typical Irish person was loyal to the Crown until the harsh treatment meted out to the Easter Rebels.

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And any adventure is more of an adventure if it takes place far away from home

[jabborn01]

Liam your mothers from Halifax.

[justjokaren]

Thanks Machree, I recently found out my Grandad was one of the mutineers and this song has helped me a lot. They were heroes every last one of them. Too young to die.

[magiegiema]

Very nice voice, thank you for posting.

[lorgain2]

The lady singing with The Folkstones had a lovely voice, any name?.

[catalpa]

This would bring a tear to a stone, wonderful singing, any idea who wrote it ?

[lorgain2]

James Daly was the man, a hero who died for his beliefs in India.

Great song Machree, thanks for posting.