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Originally Posted by Renesco
heh I live 20 minutes drive from tipperary town and went to school in county tipperary (its in ireland) as for the song its been around since the dawn of time who knows who originally wrote it at this stage
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_...y_to_Tipperary
Written by Jack Judge, apparently on a bet, in 1912. Was being sung by Irish regiments in WWI as early as 1914; by the end of the war its popularity had spread to other units of the British Army. And the rest, as they say, is a Wikipedia article.
