The Woods Of Drumbo (also known as The Drumboe Martyrs) is thought to have been written by Michael McGinley (1852 – 1940).
The Woods Of Drumbo is a Donegal song.
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It commemorates 4 anti-Treaty soldiers – members of a flying column who were executed on March 14, 1923 by Free State troopers in Co Donegal.
The men who were shot were Charlie Daly, Sean Larkin, Timothy O’Sullivan and Daniel Enright, (there is some confusion whether it was O’Sullivan or O’Donnell). They came from Kerry, Cork and Derry,
Drumbo is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland about 6 miles south of Belfast.
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