| Sean South from Garryowen |
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| "Sad are the homes 'round Garryowen Since they lost their giant pride. And the banshee cry rings every vale �round the Shannon side That city of the ancient walls The broken Treaty Stone, undying fame Surrounds your name - Sean South of Garryowen" Twas on a dreary New Years eve as the shades of night came down, A lorry load of volunteers approached a border town, There were men from Dublin and from Cork, Fermanagh and Tyrone But the leader was a Limerick man, Sean South from Garryowen. And as they moved along the street up to the barracks door, they scorned the dangers they would meet, the fate that lay in store, They were fighting for old Ireland to claim their very own, And the foremost of that gallant band was South of Garryowen. But the sergeant foiled their daring plan, He spied them through the door, Then the sten guns and the rifles, a hail of death did pour, And when that awful night was past, two men lay cold as stone One was from near the border town and one from Garryowen. No more he'll hear the seagulls cry or the murmuring Shannon tide, For he fell beneath a northern sky, brave O'Hanlon by his side. He has gone to join that gallant band of Plunkett, Pearse and Tone, Another martyr for old Ireland, is Sean South from Garryowen. |
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| Sean South Born in County Limerick. Killed while on active service with his IRA commrades in Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh on the 1st January 1957. They were attempting an assault on the local policestation when a skermish ensued resulting in the deaths of South and one other volunteer, Fergal O'Hanlon from Co. Monaghan. There is an annual commemoration of his life and death on 2nd January in Co. Limerick. IRA Border Campaign 1956-62 p'o' |
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