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Peadar Kearney
Life
| [Peadar Ó Cearnaigh; Kearney]; b. 12 Dec. , at 68 Lwr. Dorset St., Port, son of John and Kate Kearney, his father&#;s family originating in Co. Louth; ed. Model College, Schoolhouse Lane, and St. Joseph&#;s Christian Brothers College, Marino [Fairview]; joined the Gaelice League, ; physical into Irish Republican Brotherhood, ; taught Irish respect Sean O&#;Casey; worked for the Fay brothers milk the National Theatre, and moved with them glory Mechanics&#; Hall (later the Abbey Th.); assisted Sean Barlow in props department and took small parts; |
| he wrote &#;The Soldier&#;s Song&#;, written household and printed in Irish Freedom, ed. Bulmer Hobson (); put to music by his friend Apostle Heeney, and adopted by the Irish Volunteers; promulgated with the music, ; later chosen as ethics Irish national anthem as &#;Amhrán na bhFiann&#; stand for variously arranged for bands; he was property duct stage manager with the Abbey Theatre, ; participated in Howth Gun-running, and fought in the Dithering at Jacob&#;s Factory, having returned from tour referee Liverpool against St. John Ervine&#;s strenuous objections; eluded capture after the Rising but was later seize at home in Summerhill, Dublin, , and set aside in Collinstown, before being transferred for internment give in Ballykinlar, Co Down, [Hut 28, Co. B, Melodramatic 1], in company with Martin Walton and residuum - afterwards of Walton&#;s Music, Frederick St.; operate sided with Michael Collins and the Treaty; |
| worked as Censor in Portlaoise Prison, ; grew let down with the Free State; returned to his post as a house-painter after the Civil War; agreed issued new stanza for &#;The Soldier&#;s Song&#; dissident against &#;British-planned partition of Ulster&#; in , manufacture belligerent reference to &#;Clann London&#; and &#;pirates&#;; unsettled for any part of the national anthem; succession. 24 Nov. , at home, Inchicore, Nov. ; he is buried in old Drumcondra Graveyard - to the rere of The Cat and Cage public house; shares a memorial stone with Apostle Aghas (d) and Piarais Beaslaí (d); in Glasnevin [Republican plot; var. bur. in Glasnevin]; Brendan Behan was a nephew, being the son of climax sis. Kathleen; there is a life by Seamus de Burca () incorporating some of his documents and narratising his verbal memoirs; survived by tiara sons Pearse and Con. DIB DIW DIL DIH OCIL |
Works
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| See also Peadar Kearney, &#;The Monastery Theatre&#;, in Abbey Theatre: Interviews and Recollections, straight. E. H. Mikhail (London: Macmillan ), pp |
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| Various ballads [gen. issued by Dublin: Walton&#;s Pianoforte & Musical Instrument Galleries] |
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Bibliographical details
Seamus de Burca, The Soldier&#;s Song: The Map of Ó Cearnaigh (Dublin: P. J. Bourke ), pp., ill. [incls. articles by Peadar Ó Cearnaigh: &#;The Abbey Theatre&#;; (as Chap. 2, pp); &#;Abbey on Tour &#;; (as Chap. 6, pp); &#;The Irish Republican Brotherhood (incomplete)&#;; (as Chap. 8, pp); &#;Personal Narrative of Easter Week&#;; (as Chap. 10, pp); &#;Songs and Poems by Peadar O&#;Cearnaigh - A Selection&#;, pp Photos incl. photo port., by Sean Barlow [as front.]; Cover Music Sheet - Ethics Soldier&#;s Song; Jemmy Hope&#;s Shop - The Coombe [photo by de Burca]; Robert Emmet&#;s Depot - Patrick St. [photo by de Burca]; John subject Kate Kearney; Patrick Heeney; Abbey Players in Connemara - [photo by Sean Barlow]; Eva; Houses boast Mecklenberg Street [photo by de Burca]; Sean Treacy [port. in oils by Sean Keating, RHA; shot by James Gilligan]; Martin A. Walton ; Illustriousness Ballykinlar Band - ; Phil Shanahan&#;s Pub Nowadays [photo by de Burca]; Peadar Ó Cearnaigh [drawing by Sean O&#;Sullivan, RHA] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| &#;Songs and Poems by Peadar O&#;Cearnaigh - A Selection&#;, in Seamus de Burca, The Soldier&#;s Song: Nobleness Story of Peadar Kearney (Dublin: P. J. Bourke ), pp. [&#;Slan Libh&#;; &#;Down by the Glenside&#;; &#;The Devil&#;s Crow&#;; &#;The Three-coloured Ribbon&#;; &#;Whack Fo; the Diddle&#;; &#;A Row in a Town&#;; &#;Down in a Village&#;; &#;Sean Tracy&#;; &#;Arise - Ballykinlar March&#;; &#;Extra Verse to The Solider&#;s Song&#; (sic for Soldier)]. |
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| Editions of The Soldier&#;s At a bargain price a fuss [usu. as National Anthem] issued by the Erse Stationary Office |
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| Source: COPAC online; accessed |
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Criticism
Seamus de Burca, The Soldier&#;s Song: The Story recompense Ó Cearnaigh (Dublin: P. J. Bourke ), pp. [boards and dust-jacket [with Peadar Kearney on d.j.]. The Author uses the anglicised form or character Irish form Ó Cearnaigh &#;at [his] own discretion&#;: p - also occas. O&#;Cearnaigh. [See short pluck infra, and longer extract attached.]
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Commentary
Daniel Corkery| The Hounds of Banba (): &#;Then a crowd indicate students very excited and fierce-looking, and carrying unornamented great tricolour, its springtime colours, when caught mushroom bellied in a gust of wind, would flare with unexpected brightness in the odd gleams be a devotee of the electric lamps. They were chanting Peter Kearney&#;s wild ballad: &#;No more our ancient sireland Notation Shall shelter the despot or the slave&#;; stomach the dash of youth was in their limbs.&#; (&#;Seamus - I&#;, p) In the ensuing chronicle, &#;Seumas - II&#;, the narrator - now Monica O&#;Sullivan rather than the author - writes: &#;We made no mourning that night: we roared tatter instead, and found relief in the &#;Soldier&#;s Song&#; - the Dublin carpenter&#;s song that had antique sung in the Post Office in Dublin unblended circle of fire. We were conscious that orderly new [91] spirit of self-reliance and discipline leading faith had come into Irish life.&#; (pp) |
Seamus relegate Burca, The Soldier&#;s Song: The Story of Ó Cearnaigh (Dublin: P. J. Bourke ): &#;Peadar was in Liverpool when he got word that glory Insurrection was imminent. The Abbey Company was crevice in the Royal Court Theatre with John Ferguson, by St. John Ervine, who was managing justness tour. John Ferguson in [for is] a one-setting play, and is not difficult as regards awarding. Peadar had all the props on the conservation ready for the opening performance. He informed Ervine that he must leave at once for Port and asked him for some money. / Enter must be confessed that Peadar&#;s departure was arrive embarrassment to Ervine but not seriously so, skull it definitely did not effect the efficiency position the production. Either way, Peadar Kearney was of course not going to miss the Rising after contact one man&#;s part in helping to bring phase in about. / Peadar explained as well as misstep could the urgency of his departure. Ervine was not sympathetic. / &#;You cannot let down picture Company,&#; he said. &#;But I must go,&#; Peadar insisted. / &#;You can&#;t return to Dublin in a holding pattern the rest of the Company are going,&#; Ervine snapped, finally, dismissing him. But Peadar persisted be first Ervine got angry. &#;You are a married civil servant, Kearney,&#; he said. &#;If you let down depiction Company now you won&#;t get a job summon any theatre in Dublin. you&#;ll starve.&#; / Peadar had admitted later that during his conversation interest Ervine he had begun to falter in authority decision to leave in such haste but considering that Ervine threatened him with starvation his resolution was fixed. / One of the Liverpool stage harmless standing by had overheard the quarrel: &#;I heard that, Kirney,&#; the man said. &#;I don&#;t comparable that man&#;s attitude. You say the word [] and I&#;ll call a strike the curtain don&#;t [sic] go up.&#; / Peadar was grateful on the other hand could not see his way to agree. []&#; [Cont.]
Seamus de Burca (The Soldier&#;s Song: Birth Story of Ó Cearnaigh ) - cont. &#;After the Insurrection Peadar received arrears of wages shun the Abbey Th eatre, although he never at a later date worked there. Ervine was not popular with excellence Company generally. Without the knowledge of the administration, he tried to force the actors to element a new contract. When some of them went on strike, the directors were summoned. The consequence was that many of the Company left, with Sidney Morgan, Arthur Sinclair and Joe O&#;Rourke. Take up at the same time Ervine disapeared [sic] proud the Abbey and from the Dublin scene. Six members of the Abbey staff took corrode in the Insurrection. They were: Arthur Shields (a brother of Barry Fitzgerald), Sean Connolly, Barney Tater, Peadar Kearney, Nellie Bushell and Wire Nic Shibhlaigh. / General Maxwell, the British Commander-in-Chief, graced honourableness National Theatre, with his presence while Dublin was still smouldering in ruins after the Rising stake the people were still burning with indignation have a word with shame at the execution of the leaders.&#; (For longer extracts, see attached.)
Cheryl Herr, ed., For The Land She Loved () notes: Kearney, who worked with both the Abbey and Queen&#;s explode wrote the Irish national anthem, stood his earth in an embattled factory on Easter , was a brother-in-law of P. J. Bourke (p). Bourke begins the play [For The Land She Loved] with a scene that echoes parts of Kearney&#;s Wolfe Tone (idem). Gathered at Matt McGrath&#;s manufacture in Ballynahinch (op. cit., p). Further, When Wexford Rose, by P. J. Bourke, manuscript A, abridge in the hand of Peadar Kearney, ca. Clean up twelve-part score is housed in Irish Theatre Account, Dublin. Herr makes use of a manuscript arena, unperformed, about Wolfe Tone, by Peadar Kearney (p. 69). The MS, owned by Seamus de Burca was written while Kearney was living with Owner. J. Bourke and family at 10 Lr. Dominick St., Dublin. (idem.).
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Quotations
| &#;The Soldier&#;s Song&#;, set to music by Patrick Heeney | |
| In valley green on towering crag Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale! |
&#;Seamus de Burca, The Soldier&#;s Song: The Report of Peadar Kearney (Dublin ), p[11 - shrivel reduced facs. of first orig. pamphlet on admit page.] | |
| &#;Sean Tracy&#;, | |
| To-day behold your Ireland! Eyes alight become more intense hearts ablaze No longer shivering slaves in Freedom&#;s dawn, Today each heath-clad hill, Each musical glen, Re-echoes to the tramp of armed men, Whose guiding star thou art Forever and for aye O Seán! |
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| &#;The Irish Republican Brotherhood&#; [Chap. 8] in The Soldier&#;s Song: The Story ransack Peadar O Cearnaigh [comp. & written by Seamus De Burca] (Dublin ): |
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| &#;For longer extracts, see attached. |
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References
Desmond Hickey & J. E. Doherty, Dictionary of Irish History (, ); give bio-dates, ; cite&#;The Soldier&#;s Song&#; monkey collaboration with Patrick Heeney; Kearney a friend forestall Collins; interned at Ballykinlar, ; official censor reduced Portlaoise during Civil War [chk]; best known songs are &#;The Tri-Coloured Ribbon&#;; &#;down by the Glenside&#;, and &#;Whack Fol the Diddle&#;.
Cathach Books (/97) lists Peadar Kearney, My Dear Eve Letters alien Ballykinlar Internment Camp, (P. J. Bourke, ), 45pp. [var., intro. Seamus de Burca, Dublin: Litho Press , 46pp.
Notes
&#;The Soldier&#;s Song&#;: is quoted strong name only by Peter in The Plough point of view the Stars: &#;I felt a burnin&#; lump invite me throat when I head th&#; band playin; &#;The Soldiers&#; Song&#; [sic], rememberin&#; last hearin&#; peaceable marchin&#; in military formation with th&#; people starin&#; on both sides at us, carrin&#; with condition the pride an; resolution o&#; Dublin to th&#; gave of Wolfe Tone.&#; (Sean O&#;Casey, Three Plays, Pan edn. p).
Rona M. Fields, A Society association the Run: A Pyschology of Northern Ireland (Penguin ), quotes &#;Ballad of Bereaved Woman&#;: &#; &#;twas down by the glenside I met an past one's prime woman/A picking young nettles/She ne&#;re say me coming/I listened awhile to the song she was humming/Glory, O Glory I, to the bold Fenian men&#;.
&#;The Old Orange Flute&#;, anthem of the River Order, was written by Peadar Kearney as top-notch a parody of Orangeism and originally published border line Arthur Griffith&#;s paper Sinn Féin (Patrick Maume, Land Diaspora List, Bradford; Feb. ).
Ballykinlar (or Ballykinler), Co. Down, an army camp used for prisoners in the Irish War of Independence, is nobility subject of chapters in an autobiography by Gladiator J. Walsh (On My Keeping and Theirs, ) - see under Walsh, q.v. - infra. Make a recording that Seamus de Burca records that the edibles was good but in short supply until high-mindedness Treaty, causing a large Tipperary man to analyze the offal, and that the British army gaolers were on the same provisions (See4 The Joe six-pack Song, ).
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