1834.  Erin Mavourneen-Erin go Brágh, Protestant Meeting in Bandon, Co. Cork.

At first instance it might appear strange that phrase in Irish would raise a cheer at a Protestant Meeting with a strong tinge of Orange.   However in the early 19th century there was a body of  Irish Protestant opinion that they were the true inheritor of Ireland’s traditions.  The reference to demagogues is to Daniel O’Connell.

A touch from later of the tangled loyalties of Bandon Protestants come up later in Sam Birds memoir, he wrote as ‘Brian Boru’

Memoir of Sam Bird, Bandon and Belding, Michigan, USA, from the 1870s his father’s fondness for a glass of grog at night, The old Irish Church, The King’s James Bible Translated from Irish, Shooting Snipe, Anti Home Rule Politics, the family decimated by TB, Methodist Preachers, writing with the Non de Plume Brian Boru