<P> For the English slow march, see The Old Brigade </P> <P> The Boys of the Old Brigade is an Irish republican folk song written by Paddy McGuigan about the Irish Republican Army of the Irish War of Independence (1919 - 1921), and the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising . </P> <P> The song describes a veteran of the Easter Rising telling a young man about his old comrades in the Irish Republican Army . Each chorus ends with the Irish language phrase "a ghrá mo chroí (love of my heart), I long to see, the Boys of the Old Brigade". </P>

Where are the lads who stood with me