Lisnagade

DESCRIPTION: The Ulster Protestants march to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne and meet an ambush at a fort at Lisnagade. There is shooting. The Catholic flag was inscribed "Hail Mary" but "my Lady Mary fell asleep, and so they ran away"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1816 (_The Patriotic Songster_, according to Zimmerman-SongsOfIrishRebellion; Zimmermann believes it dates from "early 1790's")
KEYWORDS: battle political Ireland
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
July 12, 1791 - "A group of 'Defenders', a secret Roman Catholic agrarian society, took up position in Fort Lisnagade to attack a group of 'Peep O' Day Boys' who were celebrating King William's [1691] victory at Boyne." (source: "Lisnagade" at the Musica site)
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Zimmerman-SongsOfIrishRebellion 93, "Lisnagade" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Roud #13403
NOTES [76 words]: "Lisnagade" refers to the white flag:
We had not march'd a mile or so when the white flag we espied,
With a branch of podereens on which they much relied,
And this inscription underneath -- Hail Mary! unto thee --
Deliver us from these Orange dogs, and then we will be free.
Zimmerman-SongsOfIrishRebellion p. 43 fn. 42: "Previously to the green, the 'seditious' colour was the Jacobite white. This colour remained the symbol of the Catholic Defenders." - BS
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