Irish Republican rebel music

[communard resolution]

Say about the IRA what you want, but they've got some great tunes.

(http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eyXZxT5Gz4k)http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eyXZxT5Gz4k

[Dr Mindbender]

that they do.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6Or8Sfy3JlM&feature=related

[Dr Mindbender]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xedc9DWygLg&feature=related

[Holden Caulfield]

anything by the Wolfe Tones,

[Dóchas]

i love the one ulster socialist posted...what a song!!! gets me going every time!! :thumbup:

[Vanguard1917]

Another version of come out ye black and tans

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-ParWSaHpHw&feature=related

[Holden Caulfield]

Wofle Tones, James Connolly complete with the little poem at the start,
gets the hairs up on the back of my neck

[Eros]

Wofle Tones, James Connolly complete with the little poem at the start,
gets the hairs up on the back of my neck

I hate the Wolfe Tones and I especially hate that song. It completely distorts Connolly's historical legacy as a great Marxist theoretician and activist. The Wolfe Tones have done nothing but leech off Republicans their entire career and cash in on a bloody and deeply regrettable conflict. Parasitic scum.

[communard resolution]

The Wolfe Tones have done nothing but leech off Republicans their entire career and cash in on a bloody and deeply regrettable conflict. Parasitic scum.

Last week I heard them for the first time in my life (my OP), so I'm not exactly an expert on the group. I'd like to know what it is that tells you the Wolfe Tones just 'cashed in' on the conflict rather than expressed their genuine position on it (whatever it may be) while at the same time making a career as professional musicians? And what is it that separates them from other musicians that put their political views to song?

Do you just disagree with what they say, or is there really something that exposes them as cynical/contrived?

[UndergroundConnexion]

Brillaint soundtrack to the struggle

[Djehuti]

INLA Freedom Fighters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=972jLVYvqwM

Belfast Brigade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6OqhIB5kMo

Loughgall Ambush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8VS7oxMe0s

Roll of Honour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90w9ocA9O4

Fighting Men From Crossmaglen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbW4b5skfE

Rifles of the IRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrd6v4J3jo

Pearse Jordan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_0twOUhM4I

Bring Them Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMGuIZ4-3Ew

Sunday Bloody Sunday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk5oMC7cQR4

Freedom Fighters Medley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kw2_UFnxWw

Derrys Streets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY0sgIbSBwA

[Riot11]

I hate the Wolfe Tones and I especially hate that song. It completely distorts Connolly's historical legacy as a great Marxist theoretician and activist. The Wolfe Tones have done nothing but leech off Republicans their entire career and cash in on a bloody and deeply regrettable conflict. Parasitic scum.
They have done no such thing! they have provided the sound track to a rebellion for the last 47 years. the song that they write and play are all stories from their own eyes, they have lived through the battles, the hard times, and the tough dissensions that had to be made. Not to mention that a fraction of what they make goes to the I.R.A.

[brigadista]

i'm fond of this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uggbzBtGbJw

[Madvillainy]

They have done no such thing! they have provided the sound track to a rebellion for the last 47 years. the song that they write and play are all stories from their own eyes, they have lived through the battles, the hard times, and the tough dissensions that had to be made. Not to mention that a fraction of what they make goes to the I.R.A.

These characters made millions from the troubles, and even refused to play for free for certain concerts on behalf of Republican "POWs"; Derek Warfield is now out in the US singing the virtues of Dixie and the Confederate States.

[Riot11]

These characters made millions from the troubles, and even refused to play for free for certain concerts on behalf of Republican "POWs"; Derek Warfield is now out in the US singing the virtues of Dixie and the Confederate States.
The only reason they have made a lot of money (i'm not sure the exact number) is the fact that they still tour to this day, as a three peice band, since Derek left the band in 1995 to start a solo career. I have never once heard about these guys refusing to play any free show for any reason, and i happen to be a huge fan of theirs. Maybe you could send me a link to some thing that can prove your point.

[Eros]

They have done no such thing! they have provided the sound track to a rebellion for the last 47 years. the song that they write and play are all stories from their own eyes, they have lived through the battles, the hard times, and the tough dissensions that had to be made. Not to mention that a fraction of what they make goes to the I.R.A.

If they were giving money to the IRA they'd be in prison or dead.

[Jorge Miguel]

I hate the Wolfe Tones and I especially hate that song. It completely distorts Connolly's historical legacy as a great Marxist theoretician and activist. The Wolfe Tones have done nothing but leech off Republicans their entire career and cash in on a bloody and deeply regrettable conflict. Parasitic scum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5X2UxgSxho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf0aVXwadn4

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER...Stiff Little Fingers is an amazing song. Dropkick Murphys are good also

[Dóchas]

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER...Stiff Little Fingers is an amazing song. Dropkick Murphys are good also

anything really by SLF is amazing

[Holden Caulfield]

"man from the daily mail" is currently my favourite song

[Yazman]

Go on home british soldiers - THAT SONG FUCKING RULES!

[Pogue]

I've always loved Rebel music, because I've always loved Irish folk, and it remains my favourite genre of music, as it always have been.

If you want to branch out a bit, theres Irish folk punk, things like the Pogues. Young Ned of the Hill is a fast tempo song in irish folk style about the original invasion of Ireland by Cromwell and its very powerful and angry.

Sickbead of Chucullain is very, very Irish, by the pogues, and is about an anti-fascist Irishman who falls into alcholism after surviving the Spanish Civil War when he volunteered out there.

[Yazman]

H-L-V-S thanks for the recommendations! Shit that song is awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rQyAvTHFK0&feature=related

[Holden Caulfield]

its a great song indeed, best one they have done in my opinion.:thumbup1:

[brigadista]

no this is the best


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iUEwB4ME3I

[Pogue]

no this is the best


_iUEwB4ME3I

thats not the pogues though just shane

[brigadista]

shane was the pogues

[Pogue]

shane was the pogues

lol spider etc made it what it was too, but shane was the main man

either way thats not the pogues

[Jack]

I was born n a dublin street
where them loyalist drums did beat
and those loving english feet
they walked all oooover us
and every single night
when me da' would come home tight
he'd invite the neighbors out with this chooorus

Come out ya black and tans
come out and fight me like a man
show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
tell her how the IRA
made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killishaaandra

It's a drinking song for me and a friend.

Guns of The IRA is good too.

[JohannGE]

Another SLF fan here. re this topic, Barbed Wire Love scores highly. Politics and a sense of humour, a great combination. For anyone who doesn't know the song:-

I met you in No Man's Land
Across the wire we were holding hands
Hearts a-bubble in the rubble
It was love at bomb site

All you give me is barbed wire love
All caught up in barbed wire love
Tangled up in barbed wire love
Throw my leg over barbed wire love
Barbed wire love snags my jeans

When I fell it was awful nice
Though I did not suspect device
The night was rife with wasteland life
You set my armalight

[Chorus]

Blasted by your booby traps
I felt the blow in both knee-caps
Your eyes did shine
Your lips were fine
And the device in your
pants was out of sight


For a more traditional Republican masterpiece, how about:-

I was born on a Dublin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin) street where the royal drums did beat
And the loving English feet walked all over us,
And every single night when me father'd come home tight
He'd invite the neighbors outside with this chorus:

(chorus)
Oh, come out you black and tans,
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I))
Tell her how the IRA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army) made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lanes in Killeshandra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killeshandra).
Come tell us how you slew
Them ol' Arabs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_revolt_against_the_British) two by two
Like the Zulus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zulu_War) they had spears and bows and arrows,
How you bravely faced each one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them damn natives to their marrow.

[chorus]
Come let us hear you tell
How you slandered great Parnell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stewart_Parnell),
When you thought him well and truly persecuted,
Where are the sneers and jeers
That you bravely let us hear
When our heroes of sixteen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising) were executed.
[chorus]

The day is coming fast
And the time is here at last,
When each shoneen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoneen) will be cast aside before us,
And if there be a need
Sure my kids wil sing, "Godspeed!"
With a bar or two of Stephen Behan's chorus
[chorus]

An alternate concluding verse is sometimes sung:

The day is coming fast
And it will soon be here at last
When North (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland) and South (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ireland) again belong to Erin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland)
And when John Bull (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bull) is gone,
We'll all join in this song,
And the trumpets of freedom will be blarin'
[chorus]

Another alternate verse:

Ahh the time is coming fast
and I think them days are near
when each English shod in heel
will run before us
and if there be a need
then our kids will say "god speed"
with a verse or two of singing this fine chorus

Another alternate verse:

Ahh the time is coming fast
and I think them days are near
when each tout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tout) and traitor
they will run before us
and if there be a need
then our kids will say "god speed"
with a bar or two of Stephen Behan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Behan)'s chorus

Another alternate verse (occasionally replacing one of the choruses);

Oh, come out ye English Huns
Come out and fight without yer guns
Show yer wife how you won medals up in Derry
Ye Murdered Free Young Men, And you'll do the same again
So get out and take yer bloody army with you

words by Dominic Behan, music traditional
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Out_Ye_Black_and_Tans

Edit... beat me to it Jack. :)