Saxum shillum

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  • Saxon Shilling: An Irish song, first published in 1843, written as an anti-enlistment protest. The "Saxon shilling" referred to the money that the British (Anglo-Saxons) would offer young Irishmen to join the army, which in the height of British imperialism (and in particular its actions against Ireland) was "blood-stained."
  • saxum (Latin): a rock, large stone
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