Thomas Osborne Davis
Edited by T. W. Rolleston
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- p.347
- Let Britain boast her British hosts,
About them all right little care we;
Not British seas nor British coasts
Can match the Man of Tipperary! p.348 - Tall is his form, his heart is warm,
His spirit light as any fairy—
His wrath is fearful as the storm
That sweeps the Hills of Tipperary! - Lead him to fight for native land,
His is no courage cold and wary;
The troops live not on earth would stand
The headlong charge of Tipperary! - Yet meet him in his cabin rude,
Or dancing with his dark-haired Mary,
You'd swear they knew no other mood
But Mirth and Love in Tipperary! - You're free to share his scanty meal,
His plighted word he'll never vary—
In vain they tried with gold and steel
To shake the Faith of Tipperary! - Soft is his cailín's sunny eye,
Her mien is mild, her step is airy,
Her heart is fond, her soul is high—
Oh! she's the Pride of Tipperary! - Let Britain brag her motley rag;
We'll lift the Green more proud and airy—
Be mine the lot to bear that flag,
And head the Men of Tipperary! p.349 - Though Britain boasts her British hosts,
About them all right little care we,
Give us, to guard our native coasts,
The matchless Men of Tipperary!
Tipperary
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Title (uniform): Tipperary
Author: Thomas Osborne Davis
Editor: T. W. Rolleston
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- First published in the Nation on 5 November 1842.
Other writings by Thomas Davis
- Thomas Davis, Essays Literary and Historical, ed. by D. J. O'Donoghue, Dundalk 1914.
- Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (ed.), Thomas Davis, the memoirs of an Irish patriot, 1840-1846. 1890. [Reprinted entitled 'Thomas Davis' with an introduction of Brendan Clifford. Millstreet, Aubane Historical Society, 2000.]
- Thomas Davis: selections from his prose and poetry. [Edited] with an introduction by T. W. Rolleston. London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin (Every Irishman's Library). 1910. [Published in Dublin by the Talbot press, 1914.]
- Thomas Osborne Davis, Literary and historical essays 1846. Reprinted 1998, Washington, DC: Woodstock Books.
- Essays of Thomas Davis. New York, Lemma Pub. Corp. 1974, 1914 [Reprint of the 1914 ed. published by W. Tempest, Dundalk, Ireland, under the title 'Essays literary and historical'.]
- Thomas Davis: essays and poems, with a centenary memoir, 1845-1945. Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1945. [Foreword by an Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera.]
- Angela Clifford, Godless colleges and mixed education in Ireland: extracts from speeches and writings of Thomas Wyse, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, Frank Hugh O'Donnell and others. Belfast: Athol, 1992.
Davis, Thomas Osborne (1910). ‘Tipperary’. In: Thomas Davis: Selections from his prose and poetry. Ed. by T. W. Rolleston. Dublin and London: The Talbot Press, pp. 347–349.
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Creation: by Thomas Davis
Date: 1843
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Keywords: literary; poetry; 19c
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- 2012-05-15: Header created; file proofed (1, 2), structural markup applied, file parsed; SGML and HTML files created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
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