Come All You Warriors


"Come All You Warriors" is a ballad concerning the 1798 Rising. The narrative focuses on the predominant figure in the Wexford Rising, Father John Murphy of the parish of Boulavogue.
The song was written within a couple of years of the Rising, and is one of the bases for "Boulavogue", written by P.J. McCall 100 years later for the centenary commemorations.
The song is referenced in the, where he states:
'The fragments of a popular song of this period, which I picked up last summer in a tour through the county of Wexford asserts that

At the Windmill hills, and at Enniscorthy,

The British fencibles they ran like deers,

But our ranks were scattered and sorely battered,

For the want of Kyan and his Shelmaliers.

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