Virgile, Les Géorgiques, III-219
pascitur in magna Sila formosa iuuenca: [3,220] illi alternantes multa ui proelia miscent uulneribus crebris; lauit ater corpora sanguis, uersaque in obnixos urgentur cornua uasto cum gemitu; reboant siluaeque et longus Olympus. nec mos bellantis una...
Oró sé do bheatha 'bhaile
The song in its original form dates back to the reign of Elizabeth I of England, and the Jacobite rising. In the early 20th century it received new verses by the nationalist poet Patrick Pearse and was often sung by IRA members and sympathisers, during...