Patriotic Irish songs to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising. McCormack, Robeson, Homan, O'Se.

I've put brief details of the songs below but, in my opinion, they are beautiful old songs so, if you're not really interested in their history please just enjoy listening.
I've tried to get the best possible sound from the music on the John McCormack recordings but they are very old and a long way from the quality of the other recordings on the video.
0:00 John McCormack : The Minstrel Boy (Thomas Moore) Rec 1st Feb 1910
The Irish poet Thomas Moore wrote this song and set it to an old Irish air "The Moreen".It is widely believed that Moore composed the song in remembrance of a number of his friends, whom he met while studying at Trinity College, Dublin and who had participated in (and were killed during) the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
2:45 Paddy Homan : The Foggy Dew Rec 2009. The song was written by Canon Charles O'Neill in about 1920 to remember the men wo fought and died in the 1916 Rising and it refers to the 210,000 Irish men who joined the British Army to fight in the First World War in terms that, it would have been better for them to have stayed at home and fought for Irelands freedom.
The last verse of the song, not included here, is
Ah, back through the glen I rode again and my heart with grief was sore
For I parted then with valiant men whom I never shall see more
But to and fro in my dreams I go and I’d kneel and pray for you,
For slavery fled, O glorious dead, When you fell in the foggy dew.
6:09 Paul Robeson : Kevin Barry (Author unknown) Rec 1954.
Kevin Barry was a medical student who joined th Irish Republican Army in 1919. He was one of a group of men ordered to stop a British Army lorry and take whatever rifles etc were there. Shots were fired and three of the soldiers were killed. All escaped except Kevin Barry. He was arrested and tortured but refused to give the names of the other men involved. Even though it was proved that the gun that killed the soldiers was not Barry's he was sentenced to death and was hung on 1st Nov 1920. He was 18 years of age.
8:10 Sean O'Se : Skibbereen : Rec 1985
The song was first published in 1880 and is attributed to Patrick Carpenter a poet and native of Skibbereen.
Skibbereen is a small town in the south west of Ireland that was badly effected by The Great Famine (1845 to 1852) as a result of which most, if not all, of the population perished. Mass burial pits close to Skibbereen contain the remains of around 10,000 men, women and children. Between 1841 and 1861 the population of the area dropped from around 58,000 to 32,000.
The last two verses of the song, not included in Sean's recording, are as follows (forty eight refers to the 1848 rebellion)
"It's well I do remember the year of forty eight,
When I arose with Erin's boys to battle against the fate.
I was hunted thro' the mountains like a traitor to the Queen,
And that's another reason why I left old Skibbereen."

"O father dear, the day will come when vengeance loud will call,
And we will rise with Erin's boys to rally one and all.
I'll be the man to lead the van beneath our flag of green,
And loud and high will raise the cry 'Revenge for Skibbereen.'
13:11 John McCormack : A Nation Once Again Rec 1906
The song was written around 18 40 by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814 to 1845) a founder of "Young Ireland" whose aim was to gain independence from Britain. Davis felt that music could have a particularly strong influence on Irish people at that time. He wrote: "Music is the first faculty of the Irish... we will endeavour to teach the people to sing the songs of their country that they may keep alive in their minds the love of the fatherland.