Sean South (song) (original) (raw)

“Sean South of Garryowen” is a song about Seán South, (written by Seán Costelloe) a member of the of the Irish Republican Army, who was fatally wounded during the attack on Brookeborough barracks in 1957. It is sung to the same tune as “Roddy McCorley". The words were first published in the Irish Catholic, the Irish weekly Roman Catholic newspaper, within a week of South's death.