Looking for Ireland's greatest rebel song? Could it be the ballad "Grace?" Last week a video of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands' granddaughter singing Irish classic ballad "Grace" went viral and it ...
"Irish Rebel Songs of the Six Counties recorded in Belfast by The Men of No Property." Program notes including the text of a speech by Bernadette Devlin and words of the songs (15 p. : ill.) inserted ...
Amanda Knox appeared on RTÉ's "The Ray D'Arcy Show" on Saturday night and amazingly sang a few bars of the Irish rebel song “Come Out, Ye Black and Tans.” The woman who beat a murder rap in Italy in ...
Plenty of people of Irish descent naturally connect with music from the motherland, but there are also a lot of Celtic fans with no genetic link. Derek Warfield, bringing his group the Young Wolfe ...
An Irish rebel song has topped the iTunes charts in the UK and Ireland following a row over a planned commemoration of the former Irish police force. The Irish Government deferred the event in memory ...
Irish rebel songs afford Scotland's Irish diaspora a means to assert, experience and perform their alterity free from the complexities of the Irish language. Yet this benign intent can be offset by ...
This article examines how some Irish republicans have used 'rebel songs' as a means to resist the hegemonic power of the British state, and how militant republicanism is invoked musically, through ...
March 17 is St. Patrick's Day and whatever your annual tradition is, searching for a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow might be on the list. Unfortunately, while you're unlikely to discover a hidden ...
A worker who physically assaulted a colleague after being provoked by the playing of Irish rebel songs and being called “an English bastard” has lost his case for unfair dismissal.
Irish rockers U2 helped set the world’s stage using “three chords and the truth” to bridge divisions and activate the masses for more than 40 years, and their work is far from over. U2 came of age ...
In this series, I'll take a closer look at songs that have become well-known and loved within Celtic cultures, like "Raglan Road" from Ireland, "The Skye Boat Song" from Scotland, and "All Through the ...
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