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The Ballagh War Pipers

I One evening of late and I going for a stroll. By the old village school slowly pacing alone. When surprised by the sound of a musical tone. T'was the tone of the Ballagh war-pipers. II I stood in amazement and listened with joy. I hastened my steps till I landed close by. Like the music of Heaven right down from the sky. Rang the tone of the Ballagh warpipers. III The music sprang forth from a farmers' abode. His name O Dwyer a D. C. at the Board. A lover of music which history knows. And a home for the Ballagh War Pipers. IV This green little island I traversed all over. The Highlands of Scotland I once did explore. Such music in my life I never heard before. As the roar of the Ballagh war pipers. V We are famed agitators since the year '81. We are never now absent with the old fife and drum. But now we have music that's second to none. Success to our Ballagh war pipers. VI It must be remembered that we didn't fail. We stormed Dundrum banished Maud and his tail. Our boys they were captured and cast into jail. And played home by the Ballagh boys war pipes. VII But in the near future. I'm proud for to say. We'll storm Templemore, Holycross, and Dovea And we'll smash up their ranches without much delay. By the roar of the Ballagh war pipers. The above song was collected as part of the Schools Collection, part of the National Folklore Archive and was collected by Mary Kearns, a pupil of Ballagh National school from a Michael O’Dwyer in the late 1930s. Officially formed in 1908 in Knockavilla, The Ballagh War Pipers were a military band associated with the IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood) and the Irish Volunteers. The band was comprised heavily of the local O’Dwyer clan local to the area who were once Gaelic Nobles who had build and occupied many castles in the region including Ballagh Castle and nearby Clonyharp castle, both which were sacked during the Williamite Wars that ravaged the country in the late 1600s. At the time of the Pipers, the O’Dwyer clan occupied the farmhouse above the hill beside the National school which was well know at the time as a place of music. Predominantly playing the war pipes, constructed from yew and boxwood and build by a Liam O’Keefe of Knockavilla the band attended and played at many organisational gatherings around Tipperary leading up to the Easter Rising of 1916. An organizational event that took place in Doon in the farmhouse of a James Duggan in 1914 is described by Eamon O’Dwyer as “a great gathering at Doon, Co. Limerick, on a Saturday night. This was a combination of dance, concert and monster meeting.” and attracted up to 2000 people sympathetic to Irish independence. The decades leading up to the Rising were colourfully characterized by a resurgence of Gaelic art, music and language encouraged and promoted by a number of republican organisations present and active in the county at the time, the popularity of Irish pipe music was heavily influenced by this renewed interest in Gaelic culture.