Music of Ireland
The tune of "The Wearing of the Green" was first published in "The Citizen, or Dublin Monthly Magazine", vol. III, January–June 1841. The earliest melodic variant appeared four years later under the title "Up! For the Green" in James Duffy's "The Spirit of the Nation" (Dublin, 1845), p. 216. Other melodic versions exist in Alfred Moffat's "The Minstrelsy of Ireland" (London, 1897; p. 56) and Francis O'Neill's "O'Neill's Music of Ireland" (Chicago, 1903; p. 81, tune number 467).