Ted Tocks Covers - Year 9 - Day 22
The Foggy Dew
Those who sacrificed everything on Easter Monday, 1916 were forever remembered by Canon Charles O’Neill.
“For slavery fled, O glorious dead, when you fell in the foggy dew!”
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The Foggy Dew – They Bore the Fight that Freedom’s Light Might Shine Through the Foggy Dew. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #HappyStPatricksDay #CanonCharlesONeill #SineadOConnor #TheChieftains
Long before U2 wrote ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ a 32-year-old Catholic priest named Canon Charles O’Neill wrote ‘The Foggy Dew’. The title is symbolic. It speaks to a movement that helped to esta…