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Banna Strand (song)

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"Banna Strand" (also known as "The Lonely Banna Strand" - "The Ballad of Roger Casement" is a different song) is an Irish rebel song about the failed transport of arms into Ireland for use in the Easter Rising. Authorship of the song is unknown. The final verse was written by Derek Warfield of the Wolfe Tones in 1965 when Roger Casement's remains were finally returned to Ireland.

The first and second verses were re-written in 2016 by 'Tintean' a Kerry based folk group, to provide a more factual and historically correct depiction of events.

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