"Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade."
"Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!"
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Source: Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Wallis (1857). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected. With Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.143
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