The Wind That Shakes the Barley is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce (1836-1883), a Limerick-born poet and professor of English literature. The song is written from the perspective of a doomed young Wexford rebel who is about to sacrifice his relationship with his loved one and plunge into the cauldron of violence associated with the 1798 rebellion in Ireland but could easily be written today on the revolution that is brewing due to our arrogant government
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 12:14:03 +0000
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