‘Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile’ was orginally a 18th century Jacobite song known as Séarlas Óg (“Young Charles”) and referred to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the failed Scottish rebellion of 1745-6. Padraig Pearse provided new verses to it in the early 1900s dedicated to Gráinne Ní Mháille, the legendary 16th century Connaught pirate queen. It soon became a popular Irish rebel song as well as later a marching tune for the Irish Army.
Here the pupils of Scoil Sheosaimh Naofa give it a new lease of life by the addition of a dance beat
Irish Traditional music from the pupils of Scoil Sheosaimh Naofa in the village of Woodford (An Ghráig) located along the banks of the River Shannon in County Galway.