Note 1 — XXVI ’BE-N EIRINN I!
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The refrain, pronounced Bay-nayring-ee, is common to a number of Irish love-songs written during the last century. It should be translated: “Whoever she be.”
In writing this song, it is evident that Eileen Fane was inspired by Blind William of Tipperary; and that she was beholden to Carroll O’Daly for her “Eileen, my Treasure,” although not to Robin Adair of County Wicklow.
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