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"etymology_text": "From the ballad \"The Rising of the Moon\" (c1865), recounting a battle between the United Irishmen and the British Army during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.",
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"ref": "1981, Johnny McEvoy, The Ballad of John Williams",
"text": "And the peelers and the landlords\nand the risings of the moon\nAnd if ever I return again,\n'twill be too bloody soon\".",
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"(Ireland, poetic) a rebellion."
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