12 October 2024
Slievenamon – Aoife Butler
This song was written by Paddy Breathnach Walsh who was involved in the attack and the burning of the barracks in Rearcross on the 11th July 1920. Shannon Morrissey now living in Australia is a great grandniece to Paddy Breathnach Walsh
Former Rearcross FC player and committee member Simon Kennedy now living in Boston with a rendition of a great Tipperary ballad
This poem was written by a visiting American tourist in the 1960’s after a visit to the old dance hall in Rearcross and some local hostelries!