A century after it was composed, a ballad about a Galway IRA volunteer murdered by British Crown Forces during the War of Independence, has been formally performed and recorded.
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For most of December 1920, Thomas Hynes, quartermaster of the Galway IRA, was in Queen’s College Galway - today s NUIG - hiding from Crown forces, sleeping on top of bookshelves, and assisting in the making of grenades.