"Croppies Lie Down" is an Irish folk song, dating from the 1798 rebellion in Ireland, that celebrates the defeat of the Irish rebels. The author has been reported as George Watson-Taylor.[1]
This song illustrates the deep divisions which existed in Ireland at the time of the 1798 rebellion. Irish Catholics, and to a lesser extent Dissenters, were legally excluded from political and economic life. The Kingdom of Great Britain was at war with revolutionary France at the time, and Irish republicans were encouraged by rumours that France would invade the island. The lyrics describe the rebels as treacherous cowards and those fighting them as brave defenders of the innocent. "Croppies" meant people with closely cropped hair, a fashion associated with the French revolutionaries, in contrast to the wigs favoured by the aristocracy. In George Borrow's 1862 travel book Wild Wales, the author comes upon an itinerant Irish fiddler and asks him to play the tune.
^WATSON TAYLOR, George (1771-1841), of Cavendish Square, Mdx. and Erlestoke Park, nr. Devizes, Wilts. Published in Fisher, D.R., ed., The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/watson-taylor-george-1771-1841
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Ribbonism In popular culture Boolavogue (song) The Boys of Wexford CroppiesLieDown The Croppy Boy Dunlavin Green Come All You Warriors Jimmy Murphy (song)...
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Ribbonism In popular culture Boolavogue (song) The Boys of Wexford CroppiesLieDown The Croppy Boy Dunlavin Green Come All You Warriors Jimmy Murphy (song)...
Ribbonism In popular culture Boolavogue (song) The Boys of Wexford CroppiesLieDown The Croppy Boy Dunlavin Green Come All You Warriors Jimmy Murphy (song)...
Ribbonism In popular culture Boolavogue (song) The Boys of Wexford CroppiesLieDown The Croppy Boy Dunlavin Green Come All You Warriors Jimmy Murphy (song)...
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