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The Croppy Boy, 1798 Pikeman Memorial, Tralee, County Kerry

Croppy was a nickname given to United Irishmen rebels during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 against British rule in Ireland.

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Croppy

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Croppy was a nickname given to United Irishmen rebels during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 against British rule in Ireland. The nickname "Croppy" was used...

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The Croppy Boy

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"The Croppy Boy" is an Irish ballad set in 1798 rising relating to the despair of a doomed young "croppy" or rebel. Versions of the ballad first appeared...

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Croppies Lie Down

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"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...

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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and marking the "croppy-holes," unmarked mass graves into which rebel casualties were thrown. To many Irish nationalists, these "croppy-holes" symbolised...

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Dublin

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Chancery Park Clontarf Promenade Coolock Lane Park Corduff Park Crescent Park Croppies' Acre Darndale Park Donahies Field Edenmore Park Eileen McLoughlin Park...

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Charlotte Schreiber

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Academy diploma. Titled The Croppy Boy (The Confession of an Irish Patriot), it is based on the Irish ballad "The Croppy Boy", which was popular during...

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Irish rebel song

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The Bold Fenian Men a.k.a. Down by the Glenside Come All You Warriors The Croppy Boy Dunlavin Green The Minstrel Boy The Rising of the Moon The Wearing of...

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Mentha pulegium

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comparison to the pregnant woman, is described as "a very lovely land Well croppy, and trimmed and spruced with pennyroyal." Early settlers in colonial Virginia...

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Seamus Heaney

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offer meaning is part of his tact." Heaney published "Requiem for the Croppies", a poem that commemorates the Irish rebels of 1798, on the 50th anniversary...

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Patrick Pearse

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of the Moon Kelly from Killanne Boolavogue The Wearing of the Green The Croppy Boy The Boys of Wexford Come All You Warriors Tone's Grave Famine & Young...

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Pitchcapping

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applied to the heads of those who happened to wear their hair short, called croppies; the head being completely singed, a cap made of strong linen well imbued...

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Irish Rebellion of 1798

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the Bog of Allen. After a number of bruising engagements, the "Wexford croppies" moved into Meath making a last stand at Knightstown bog on 14 July. A...

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Lisburn

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and to the south at the Battle of Ballynahinch on June 12 where the "Croppies" had been under the command of the Lisburn linen draper, Henry Munro. For...

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French Republican calendar

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Freezy; Slippy, Drippy, and Nippy; Showery, Flowery, and Bowery; Hoppy, Croppy, and Poppy. The historian Thomas Carlyle suggested somewhat more serious...

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Battle of Vinegar Hill

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warfare, raids and other guerilla operations. In his poem Requiem For the Croppies, Irish poet Seamus Heaney depicted the battle as "the final conclave" where...

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Liam Clancy

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while growing up in Carrick-on-Suir. The first song he learned was "The Croppy Boy". He received a Christian Brothers education before taking a job as...

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Ribbonism

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case in point. Ancient Order of Hibernians Bathurst rebellion Captain Rock Croppy Defenders History of Ireland (1801–1922) Whiteboys Robert Kee, The Green...

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List of folk songs by Roud number

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"Catch Me If You Can" 1029. "Come All You Lads and Lasses" 1030. "The Croppy Boy" (Laws J14) 1031. "Death and the Lady" 1032. "The Death of Parker" 1033...

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Lord Edward FitzGerald

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Ribbonism In popular culture Boolavogue (song) The Boys of Wexford Croppies Lie Down The Croppy Boy Dunlavin Green Come All You Warriors Jimmy Murphy (song)...

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Sandinista National Liberation Front

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them except for me survived, And I am still alive." The Irish rebel song "Croppies who will not lie down" references numerous revolutionary groups around...

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