List of Irish Ballads - Politics and Soldiering - 18th Century

18th Century

• "Clare's Dragoons" - written by Thomas Davis about one of the divisions of the Irish Brigades.
• "Mo Ghile Mear - written by Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill, it is a lament by the Gaelic goddess Éire for Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was then in exile.
• "Gaol of Clonmel" (also known as the "Jail of Cluain Meala" (sung by Luke Kelly) and the "Convict of Clonmel") - translation by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan of the Irish-language "Príosún Chluain Meala", a song from the time of the Whiteboys