I don't get the Great Windsor Park verse, can someone explain?

Long memories? This was in the 60s, before bloody Sunday. A couple of decades after independence. During a conflict up north that didnt end until 1998 and arguably is still alive. Most long memories? It seems the Brits have no memories, except when it comes to "winning" world war 2 or thr world cup. Or talking about kings and queens from centuries ago. The have long memories when it is convenient. And never learn the parts that aren't. I would agree with his argument in another context but not when they are still occupying and destroying the place. It takes time.

Works well in the oxford accent funny song

God bless Brendan lol

This is great maith to

So happy to discover this song. I had vague memories of hearing it in a theatre as a young child but no idea what play or what it was about. Now I know. I did know I had seen The Hostage but was very young, probably too young! Wonderful song!

One takeaway from this is that everyone, regardless of their origin grabs their heads when they are interrupted.

Gid bkess ireland

Taking the piss outta the Brit empire and its demise, absolute genius

That English individual is so arrogant.

Rome NEVER LEFT England

Go Uncle Breandan! Love the comment ref irrelevance: 'Yes you may as well bring rheumatism into it!'. Listening to this clip on day of Shane McGowan: RIP influenced by Brendan as shown in the lyrics of the song he wrote for Brendan; the world loses another literary visionary light....Jessie Paton: 30/11/23.

The arrogance of British imperialism. Their chickens are coming home to roost now with all the illegal immigration. Don’t you just love karma?

I'm an unfortunate Irish-American who just discovered this amazing man. He did so much good. So sorry his life was cut short by alcohol. I'm so happy to have found these interviews. He actually reminds me of Christopher Hitchens, another brilliant man who was also an alcoholic.

Could someone ask John Sheehan from ‘The Dubliners’ where Behan got this version of An Chúilfhionn from, and if he knows of any further missing verses? --- An bhfaca tú an Chúilfhionn é ag siúl thar ná bánta (plains) is é mo chroí gheal mo réalta brea na maidine mo Chúilfhionn brea geal is a gheal ar fáinne geal an lae

Go hidéalach, teastaíonn dhá leagan den Chúilfhionn uainn ag brath ar cé acu fear nó bean an t-amhránaí. Tá leagan Brendan Behan an-ghearr ach canann sé leagan na mná faoina laoch. An bhfuil liricí iomlána an leagain a chanann Brendan Behan sa taifeadadh faighte agaibh le do thoil ? Dá spreagfaí cailíní na hÉireann an t-amhrán seo a chanadh faoi fhir fhionn na hÉireann, is lú an seans go n-iompódh siad ina siorcanna láibe. Go hifreann le Plean Kalergi, agus Plean Israel Cohen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGLRhWypa7-Zirc

Love Behan!

Putin might do well to listen to these interviews

Define 'English' - Anglo/Saxon; Norman-French; Hanoverian?

I like your southern accent

Hahaha who the hell ever oppressed the English in their own land? The Normans? That's a way back.

Tell them Brendan!!

Well Ireland d was fked in the 80s when I had to immigrate to usa 🇺🇸

Brilliant. Genius.

Mass immigration from Ireland lafter independence to English speaking countries speaks for it's self oppressed really.

Maranatha

2:55

Alo Tunji is brilliant

Colonialism, Imperialism & Racism are evil!

BB the legend

BRENDAN. FIOR LAOCH

this is brilliant ... thankyou for posting

The seed of a good idea is there in what Behan is saying but he is so inarticulate that it is hard to follow him. The black guy seems the most intelligent of all of them.

The Englishman was, and is, absolutely right. It is manifested today by the horrid bleatings of the present blm movement. All is the fault of the Godlike White Man, and they are responsible for nothing. They beg for the 'oppression excuse'.

Pompous British.Ben an.talks a lot.of.sense

What year was this?

The reason the Irish have such long memories is because we have an ancient oral cultural tradition; memory is alive in our placenames, stories, song and lives, even in the layered etymology of our words, both in English and in our native Irish (Gaeilge)

How preposterous for a colonizing country to even suggest "giving Independence" to another Sovereign country minding it's own business! Just remember the genocide of 200 MILLION Native Americans minding their own business too. The railroads served the British Empire and stayed behind because they couldn't take them along with them! 😂Civilization as a gift of sorts doesn't come into it. Plundet is the key word. A sewage system would have made far more sense. But you needed engineer.Sir Charles Bazalgette in London to do that when millions died of Cholera in a reeking London. Now they're dying off like flies in India besides endemic hunger. The Romans actually improved conditions with roads and thermal baths and didn't interfere as long as taxes were paid to them and soldiers joined their army. That's how they lasted so long.

This is great

That poor English chap getting roasted

“ You could of got a job in the SS !!” .. man Brendan !

Brendan behan was absolutely correct in relation to imperialism and its abhorrence to humanity

Is he drunk? He's not very eloquent.

A few important points and differences between the Irish and English experience of invasion needs to be made. The Saxons and then the Normans invaded England and assimilated and intermarried with the 'Britons' of the day. However, As an Irishman I think its interesting that the 'English' failed so miserably in integrating the Irish. I think the difference between the Irish having a long memory against the English experience of invasion and conquest. While the English experienced Roman, Saxon and Norman invasions of its mainland, this was much different from the experience of Ireland. The Irish situation was complicated by both differences in their religious and language identity. I think Ireland was far more difficult to subjugate for those reasons hence the measure to do so became more brutal. The English failed to subjugate the Irish for 700 years. Another major difference was that the Roman and Saxon invasions had occurred 1,000 years earlier in the case of the roman invasion and 600-700 years earlier with the Saxon invasion. Religious identity as well as cultural and national identity were still evolving. The Irish to the English experience is very different to the English experience. The Penal laws as well as Famine and evictions are not experiences that would live short in any ones memory. The Irish were always more of a 'colonized' people as opposes to an assimilated people for all of the above reasons. I do agree however that we need to get over it now and I cringe sometimes at the nonsense of 'Celtic football club' jersey wearing wannabe republicans protesting the Queens visit a few years ago. That nonsense is embarrassing

So what did the ‘charitable’ rule of Leopold the 2nd do for the Congo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State

Who thinks allowing the English to govern themselves was a good idea ? ;-)

Look at us Irish today. Successful, confident and genuinely proud.

Behan was pretty useless here and out of his depth. Not that the others were any better.

Brilliant mind

Chris Eubank has aged well!!!!