Down By The Glenside  (aka Bold Fenian Men) Peadar Kearney
(1883-1942)   This example of "Down by the Glenside (Bold Fenian
Men)" is performed by the Jolly Rogers on their album Loose
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Cantaria's Copyright information  sheet music (toggle as desired
for printing)  This song was written by Peadar Kearney, who also
wrote the national anthem of Ireland. Brendan Behan, the Irish
playwright, poet and singer was Kearney's nephew.  The song was
used in the film West of the Rio Grande (1944). Fenians were an
Irish revolutionary organization, formed in New York in on March
17, 1858.  Many Irish-American soldiers who fought on both sides
in the American Civil War went home to Ireland to fight for
Irish independence in 1916. (Reference: album: Brendan Behan 
Sings Irish Folk Songs & Ballads)  'Twas down by the glenside, I
met an old woman She was picking young nettles and she scarce
saw me coming I listened a while to the song she was humming
Glory O, Glory