The Minstrel Boy

Versions of
The Minstrel Boy
by Thomas Moore

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"The Minstrel Boy" is an Irish patriotic song written by Thomas Moore who set it to the melody of The Moreen, an old Irish air. It is widely believed that Moore composed the song in remembrance of a number of his friends, whom he met while studying at Trinity College, Dublin and who had participated in (and were killed during) the Irish Rebellion of 1798. However this has never been definitively proved. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Versions of The Minstrel Boy include:

"The Minstrel Boy" in Queen Mary's lamentation (1824)
"The minstrel boy" in Twa weavers (1825)
"The Minstrel Boy" in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918)