Twas Kerry here, Twas Kerry There Twas Kerry,Kerry everywhere And all along the midnight air We’d hear the war cry Kerry Our hand grenades were Kerry made Our men were of the Kerry grade And when the North it was betrayed We placed our hope on Kerry The Tans they came into Tralee To conquer with their tyranny But Lynch’s army made them flee From Our beloved Kerry Was Kerry right? Was Kerry wrong Was Kerry weak was Kerry strong But all along the midnight throng You’d hear the War Cry Kerry! Twas Kerry here, Twas Kerry There Twas Kerry,Kerry everywhere And all along the midnight air We’d hear the war cry Kerry Kerry sung by Kathlee Largey youtube/watch?v=q2hjIcrBTYg rom THE KERRYMAN A Century Edition December 1999 Year 1948 Thousands March at IRA mens funerals Thousand marched to funeral processions in Tralee and Caherciveen last Sunday when the bodies of Charles Kerins and Maurice O Neill, I.R.A. men executed during the Emergency were brought from Dublin for reinterment. Tralee man Charlie Kerins was hanged on December 1, 1944, having been convicted of the murder of Detective Denny OBrien in Dublin. His remains were re-intered in Rath Cemetery Tralee, in September 1948. Maurice ONeill of Caherciveen, was convicted of the murder of Detective Mordaunt and hanged on November 12, 1942. His remains were reinterred in Caherciveen in September 1948. The funeral procession on Saturday from Dublin delayed en route in the various towns and villages where people had gathered to pay tribute to the deceased. When the funeral of Charles Kerins arrived in Tralee at 10 p.m. on Saturday, townspeople turned out en masse to accompany the remains to St. Johns Mortuary Church. where the remains laid overnight. On Sunday the funeral to Rath was one of the largest seen in Tralee for years. The coffin containing the remains was covered with the tri-colour and the hearse bearing it had a guard of honour of deceaseds comrades. Fianna Eireann, Cumann na mBan, I.R.A. Republican bodies, ex-internees and general public participated.Occupying a prominent place in the procession were the members of the Kevins-ORahillys G.A. A. Club and the football boots and jersey lay on the coffin as the long procession winded its way via Boherbee to the Republican plot at Rath. In his last letter Charlie Kerins said that he did not mind what happened to himself as long as the ideals for which he was dying were held sacred by his comrades
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