{"id":513,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/lonely-woods-of-upton-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:30:13","slug":"lonely-woods-of-upton-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/lonely-woods-of-upton-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Woods of Upton, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Lonely Woods of Upton, The<\/h2>\n<p class=\"micil-ineada\u00ed-seinnteoir\">n\u00edl an taifead seo ar f\u00e1il faoi l\u00e1thair<\/p>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Lonely Woods of Upton, The.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 9695.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> song.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> Ewan Mac Coll and Peggy Seeger.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 1963.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> London, England.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> private.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair&nbsp; <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> Peggy Seeger.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many a home is filled with sadness and with sorrow<br \/>\nMany a heart is filled with anguish and with pain<br \/>\nSee how Ireland, how she hangs her head in mourning<br \/>\nFor the men who died at Upton far away.<\/p>\n<p>Let the moon shine bright tonight along the valley<br \/>\nWhere the heroes of Republic in ambush lay<br \/>\nMay they rest in peace, those men who died for Ireland<br \/>\nNear the lonely woods of Upton far away.<\/p>\n<p>Some were thinking of their mothers, wives and sweethearts<br \/>\nMore were thinking of their good old Irish homes<br \/>\nDid they think of how they fought along the valley<br \/>\nAs they marched out from Cork City to their doom.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t long &#8217;til the cry went out, &#8216;Fix bayonets!&#8217;<br \/>\nManfully they fixed them for the coming fray<br \/>\nManfully they fought and died to free old Ireland<br \/>\nNear the lonely woods of Upton far away.<\/p>\n<p>Some are sleeping &#8216;neath the waters of Cork Harbour<br \/>\nMore are sleeping &#8216;neath the good old Irish clay<br \/>\nBut their voices seem to cry out &#8216;God save Ireland!&#8217;<br \/>\nFrom the lonely woods of Upton far away.<\/p>\n<p>Let the moon shine bright tonight along the valley<br \/>\nWhere the heroes of Republic in ambush lay<br \/>\nTheir voices seem to cry out, &#8216;God save Ireland!&#8217;<br \/>\nFrom the lonely woods of Upton far away.<\/p>\n<p>EM: Is that a common song, Joe?<br \/>\nJH: Well, it&#8217;s a very popular song in Ireland.<br \/>\nEM: Is it? Popular where? All over Ireland?<br \/>\nJH: All over Ireland. In fact, you couldn&#8217;t sing a better song in Ireland than that.<br \/>\nEM: What&#8217;s the episode it refers to?<br \/>\nJH: It refers to the Black and Tan period, 1921 to 22. And the reason I sang it for you now is because I was told there was a song in America, the air was more or less the same and that&#8217;s why I sang it for you.<br \/>\nEM: &#8216;The Moon is Shining on the Wabash.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>1. These remarks are not included on<cite class=\"albam-ceoil\"> The Road from Connemara<\/cite>, but are on the audio tapes of the Mac&nbsp;Coll interviews deposited in the Joe Heaney Collection at the University of Washington (UW85&ndash;9.3). A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mustrad.org.uk\/articles\/heaney3.htm\">transcription<\/a> by Fred McCormick is also available.<\/p>\n<p>2. Tom Munnelly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mustrad.org.uk\/reviews\/j_heaney.htm\">writes<\/a> of this song, also known as <cite class=\"amhr\u00e1n\">The Upton Ambush<\/cite>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A maudlin ballad relating to an incident in the War of Independence when three members of the IRA lost their lives in an engagement at Upton Junction, County Cork, on February 15th, 1921. The songwriter lifted his verse from an earlier song On the Shores of Havana, relating to the Spanish-American War. He [presumably the author of <cite class=\"amhr\u00e1n\">On the Shores of Havana<\/cite>] in turn took his inspiration from <cite class=\"amhr\u00e1n\">On the Banks of the Wabash<\/cite> written by Paul Dresser and Theodore Dreiser in 1899.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Issued on <cite class=\"albam-ceoil\">The Road from Connemara<\/cite> (Cl\u00f3 Iar-Chonnachta CICD 143 \/ Topic TSCD 518D.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amhrain","category-amhrain-i-mbearla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}