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'Young Ned of the Hill' (also known as 'Éamonn an Chnoic') was written By Ron Kavana and Terry Woods. Young Ned was Edmund Ryan from Tipperary who led a gang (rapparee) who rebelled against the forces of Oliver Cromwell.

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Have you ever walked the lonesome hills
And heard the curlews cry
Or seen the raven black as night
Upon a windswept sky
To walk the purple heather
And hear the westwind cry
To know that's where the rapparee must die

Since Cromwell pushed us westward
To live our lowly lives
There's some of us have deemed to fight
From Tipperary mountains high
Noble men with wills of iron
Who are not afraid to die
Who'll fight with Gaelic honour held on high

A curse upon you Oliver Cromwell
You who raped our Motherland
I hope you're rotting down in hell
For the horrors that you sent
To our misfortune forefathers
Whom you robbed of their birthright
To hell or Connaught may you burn in hell tonight

Of one such man I'd like to speak
A rapparee by name and deed
His family dispossessed and slaughtered
They put a price upon his head
His name is known in song and story
His deeds are legends still
And murdered for blood money
Was young Ned of the hill

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from From The Plough To The Stars- A Celtic Punk Celebration Of Irish Rebel Songs, released February 24, 2023
The Fisticuffs from Emerald City- the Southside of Chicago marry seamlessly blending Punk with Irish folk. The track is taken from 'You'll Not Take Us Alive' which acts as a rallying cry to the working class in these trying times.
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