30 Oct 2014
Tipperary and the Isle of Man: new evidence
The story of how It’s A Long Way to Tipperary came to be written is well known, even if some details are disputed even to this day, and need not concern us here. Two questions, though, do require definitive answers even at this distance in time:
1. Did the great chorus singer Florrie Forde introduce Tipperary to the Isle of Man during the summer season of 1913?
2. Were serving soldiers on the Island during this period, the first soldiers anywhere in the world to adopt Tipperary as their marching song a year before World War I was declared?
New evidence is discussed by Maurice Powell in this article
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