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fought,
    Low was their bloody banner.
    They sought to wipe the column out,
    From east to west, from north to south,
    â€™Till at Crossbarry’s bloody rout
    They woke from their day dreaming.
    Though ten to one they were that day
    Our boys were victors in the fray,
    And over the hills we marched away
    With bagpipes merrily screaming.
    The Essex brutes who tortured Hales,
    They scoured the land to fill the jails,
    They thought their foul deeds would pale
    The cheeks of Irish mothers.
    Paid dearly for their deeds were they
    When passing by Toureen one day,
    We dearly made the Essex pay
    And well avenged our brothers.
    When Barry saw the Tans efface,
    The spirit of his fighting race,
    Right through his soul did madly chase
    His blood went boiling over.
    He marched his men to Rossa’s town
    And burned that famous fortress down,
    And never again will Britain’s crown
    Her foothold there recover.
    Chorus :
    So piper pay a martial air
    For the gallant boys who conquered there,
    No merry tune to banish care,
    Or mournful or solemn.
    The grander tune of all is played
    By the fighting squad of the Third Brigade,
    Whose glorious deeds will never fade,
    The men of Barry’s Column.
    THE THIRD WEST CORK BRIGADE
    We’ll raise our voice in Ireland’s praise
    Glad are our hearts today,
    For Ireland’s sons have proved their worth
    In the good old IRA
    All parts fought well for Roisin Dubh
    But we a record made.
    In good old Cork, in famed West Cork
    The Third West Cork Brigade
    At Newcestown we struck a blow
    For Ireland and Sinn Féin.
    At Ballinhassig next we proved
    Our right we would maintain
    The English foe we twice laid low,
    We faced them undismayed
    In good old Cork, in famed West Cork,
    The Third West Cork Brigade.
    The Black and Tans to Ireland came
    To send us to our doom.
    Their toughest warriors sallied forth
    In lorries from Macroom.
    But at Kilmichael’s bloody fight
    Their conquering course was stayed,
    By good old Cork, by famed West Cork,
    The Third West Cork Brigade.
    Then at Crossbarry’s battlefield
    Tom Barry’s boys saw red.
    For ten to one the Saxon host
    Before our onslaught fled.
    And o’er the hills we made our way
    Whilst our gallant piper played.
    In good old Cork, in famed West Cork
    The Third West Cork Brigade.
    Rosscarbery’s barrack strong and grim
    Next fell before our fire
    For Black and Tans and RIC
    Had gone down to the mire.
    The echo of our fierce attack
    Was heard through glen and glade,
    In good old Cork, in famed West Cork
    The Third West Cork Brigade.

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    Sighle Humphreys Papers
    Seán MacEntee Papers
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    Moss Twomey Papers
    Trinity College, Dublin, Records Office
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