Freedom Fighting- Dying

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In reference to Father Murphy, the song says:
"Arm! Arm!" he cried, for I'm going to lead you. For Ireland's freedom we fight or die!
And die they did.

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This proved to be a serious miscalculation as the people's hearts were with the rebels. As this band moved it people from the countryside joined and soon it numbered 15000 and took Wexford with relative ease.

Later on at vinegar hill
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The British responded with a confrontation at the rebel encampment on Vinagar Hill. There, the British artillery overwhelmed the poorly armed Irish

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Twenty-five thousand men, women and children were killed. Leaders of the Rebellion were beheaded and their head placed on pikes outside the courthouse in Wexford. Father Murphy was stripped, flogged, hanged and beheaded. His body was placed in a barrel and burned and the residents of Wexford were forced to open their windows so as to smell his burning body. In subsequent rebellions, the memory of Vinegar Hill has served as a rallying cry, not unlike our own Alamo or September 11.

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