"The Kerry Recruit" is a humorous Irish song about an Irish soldier from Kerry who enlisted into the Crimean War, with references made to various locations and battles of the Crimean War, such as Balaclava, the Alma, and Inkerman. The song originally derives from previously published broadside ballads, many of which were printed before the Crimean War and were instead about other battles or wars, such as the Battle of Trafalgar or the Irish Rebellion of 1798.