As part of Proclamation Day 2016, Mr. O’ Brien’s 5th Class and Mrs. Lawlor’s 6th Class performed “The Foggy Dew” and “Óró, Sé do Bheatha Abhaile”.

“The Foggy Dew” was written by Canon Charles O’Neill (1887-1963), a parish priest of Kilcoo and later Newcastle, County Down, sometime after 1919. This song chronicles the Easter Rising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than for the British, as so many young men were doing in World War I.

The version of “Óró, Sé do Bheatha Abhaile” we sang is the version written by poet and revolutionary Pádraig Pearse, welcoming volunteers back to Ireland for the 1916 Rising.

Here are videos of us practising on Monday: