![]() ![]() Nell Flaherty represents Emmet's fiancée, Sarah Curran, (1782–1808). The uprising went wrong after an explosion at an arms depot, and Emmet was captured and hanged for his part in the uprising and the assassination of the Lord Chief Justice. The drake of the title is believed to be a coded reference to Robert Emmet (1778–1803), who helped to plan and led an uprising against British rule in Dublin in 1803. That murdered Nell Flaherty's beautiful Drake.Īccording to a commentary on the website of the National Library of Scotland, The universe round I'd rove for his sake īad wind to the robber, be him drunk or sober, He was wholesome and sound he'd weigh twenty pound, ![]() That my grandmother left me and she going to die. I had a large drake, the truth for to speak, This melody is best known as the vehicle for a humorous and much-anthologized song dating from the mid-19th century:Īnd I live near Coothill I will never deny,
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