God save Ireland! - Sharpe's Regiment

Sergeant Lynch finally gets his comeuppance from Harper in one of my favourite episodes, Sharpe's Regiment.
Sharpe belongs to ITV Studios.

[@OptimusWombat]

Harper's come a long way since the day he tried to kill Sharpe with a broken bottle for waking up him from his nap.

[@halfrican69]

I was just thinking the same thing lol

[@alexanderhelm5016]

Chosen man. Trusted man.

[@Sam-vh5vn]

Yea one of many funny scenes

[@Koshzor]

@William Lee Pretty sure he tryed to kill him few more times after

[@onlydfresh1]

Now that’s soldiering!

[@pablononescobar]

To those watching and don't know, Sgt. Harper is getting payback for earlier when Sgt. Lynch forced him to say, "God save the King of England!"

[@jarberwoks8399]

Didnt lynch just ask who the king of Ireland was before telling him to say the kings name louder?

[@pablononescobar]

I was summarizing what happened in the earlier scene, I admit I didn't get it exactly right, sorry

[@Michaelkayslay]

How can lynch tell Harper what to do ? And how can Harper tell lynch what to do Same rank I thought ?

[@pablononescobar]

@@Michaelkayslay Harper was in disguise earlier as a new recruit--now it's revealed Harper is a Sergeant Major, a higher grade of sergeant than Lynch

[@shaun9357]

@@Michaelkayslay In the book 'John' Lynch was originally 'Sean' Lynch from Kerry who hated being Irish and ditched his accent. Harper and Sharper were undercover as new recruits so Lynch could order him but in reality Harper was a higher rank.

[@gazof-the-north1980]

Making an upstart Sergeant shout "God save Ireland"...........that's Soldiering

[@andrewpestotnik5495]

Insulting a fresh recruit *THAT'S NOT SOLDIERING*

[@juanbarba95]

Many Irish (Puritans,Anglicans and Catholics) fought in Spain against French for yout country. The first French Eagle was taken by a Irish soldier. I'm happy because no Englishman made it. That's soldiering

[@TheAzureNightmare]

@@juanbarba95 *Was the Blackest as Bog General Wellesley in command of the regiment of that Paddy?*

[@juanbarba95]

@@TheAzureNightmare Of course, an Irish hero. Wellington.

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

Watching Lynch getting bayoneted by his own men for cowardice, was definitely one of the highlights of this episode. Along with every scene that had Lady Camoynes in it.

[@shawndavis2616]

You forgot murder, he murdered a man in cold blood.

[@Synthonym]

Lynch was a nasty piece of work that deserved every bit of his misfortune

[@seedee3d]

actually he was in front and they just really hated him

[@maxm.9992]

When Harper goes into full sergeant/ sgt major mode with the "Say it!" Damn O'Malley either got pointers or was in the service at some point.

[@MikeJones-fo5ey]

That's acting at soldiering.

[@congyoglas]

O'Malley is actually Irish political royalty; his father was an LBJ-style reformer who helped create Ireland's public high school system (using the US definition of public high school.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donogh_O%27Malley

[@JnEricsonx]

Meanwhile, right before he says that, he says "go on" pretty calmly. That was the "one nice order" before going down your throat.

[@juanbarba95]

@@MikeJones-fo5ey Of course , Sir.

[@hollywoodwerewolf]

I always watch this scene on St. Patrick's Day It's one of Harper's best moments

[@cobden28whittehnam7]

One of my favourite scenes from all of the Sharpe series.

[@deevan1415]

Watching an Irish Sergeant Major make an English Sergeant scream "God save Ireland!" on St. Patrick's Day? Now that's soldiering!

[@BigBWolf90]

@@deevan1415 Lynch is actually a Irishman who hates being Irish so he tried to make himself sound more English

[@deevan1415]

@@BigBWolf90 Why would an Irishman hate being Irish so much that he'd try to sound like his most hated enemies?

[@BigBWolf90]

@@deevan1415 he's what's known as a boomerang bigot. He feels that the Irish are inferior and wants to distance himself from being as Irish as possible

[@HenriHerbert88]

Lynch grows sideburns in an attempt to best Girdwood's epic facial hair. Fails.

[@elricky1996]

Legend says to this day he’s still shouting “God save Ireland”!

[@tworu20]

Legend says about some bayonets...

[@Lupinthe3rd.]

This is every Irishman's favorite scene in all of television and cinema.

[@toadthewhole1447]

Lynch was Irish. The greatest traitors to Ireland were/are Irish. Think De Valera.

[@swaythegod5812]

@@toadthewhole1447he was no traitor tho just disagreed

[@raspherion]

Linch; (x100) GOD, SAVE IRELAND! God: I did, I sent them harper!

[@NealX_Gaming]

Harper's facial expressions are the essence of life.

[@jessebarker1552]

Look at the kid in the background. 0:55 He's going like. "I've made an accomplishment today. I've got my Sergeant yelled at by another Sergeant."

[@SantomPh]

Tinfoilhatman Harper is the Regimental Sergeant Major so he is actually Lynch's boss

[@maskedgaming2798]

Harper is an RSM so he is the most senior Warrant officer in the regiment. He is no mere sergeant

[@drunkenbarbarian8211]

@@Kitiwake FUCK OFF

[@regandonohue1782]

@@maskedgaming2798 That's a modern thing, where RSM is an appointment. Back in the day, it was a rank. So he is technically a sergeant.

[@kimkim-si5ft]

@@drunkenbarbarian8211 what's the matter, bitch?

[@LordOfNothingreally]

This has got to be one of the proudest moments in Harper's time in service

[@vincentmcghee8875]

Love this scene! Harper did not hide behind his badge, he was getting his own back coz that knob made him shout god save england!

[@paulscott2037]

And aided and abetted in hunting him to near death... a few things really.

[@superirishman1931]

It say Ireland not England

[@iainhewitt]

@@superirishman1931 This scene is later in the TV movie from a scene where SM Harper was made to repeatedly shout, "God Save England!" by the sergeant shouting here. Hope that clears up the confusion.

[@youngsteph1]

Later on when they are in battle his own men kill him.

[@imnothere220]

Yes. That's what happened.

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

What was even better. He tried to run away. At his first battle. The troops bayoneted his ass...

[@sksaddrakk5183]

yeah in the book Sharpe puts him in a squad with Harper, O'Grady, Kelleher, Rourke, Callaghan, Joyce, Donnell, the Pearce brothers, O'Toole, Fitzpatrick and Halloran... needless to say all of them were Irish and Sharpe had no intention for Sgt. Lynch to return from the battlefield in any case...

[@dorkmax7073]

A private's greatest joy in life is to get his sergeant yelled at by the fucking sergeant major.

[@florbfnarb7099]

Noooo…you don’t want the Sergeant Major paying attention to your platoon.

[@julianmhall]

You have to love how much shorter Lynch was than Harper. When he turns and his eyes are level with Harper's chest

[@generalpublic3744]

God Save Ireland, and I'm English. Great Episode. Harper, what a guy!

[@tranz2deep]

Harper was always pragmatic about it, but he never lost his love of country. I seem to recall his observation to Sharpe on seeing one of the more deplorable commands; "They should send these lads home. Ireland'll be free in a week."

[@Normalguy1690]

_ DFC Northern Ireland you mean

[@Normalguy1690]

YerManSeamus true he probably does English are dirty turncoats like that atleast is Northern Irish have our Scottish brothers

[@B8ct78]

normal guy Is that’s why the Irish and the Scottish have had more wars with each other than the English?

[@B8ct78]

YerManSeamus Not really. The Irish enslaved many people on the British Isles specially the Picts and Welsh Celts/Britons. That’s why Picts separates with the more Irish Scotti clans. I mean for gods sake, the patron saint of Ireland was Welsh!

[@gunslinger2488]

I think he broke him, better call tech support.

[@dragonsword7370]

Does this mean it will be in Indian tech support firm good far back in time?

[@colonelgridwood4744]

XD

[@movieguru289]

Did you try turning it off and on again?

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

@@movieguru289 Well, they turned him off later, but had a little trouble getting him to come back on. Possible cause might be the multiple perforations.

[@christianaquilina5434]

@@dragonsword7370 Considering Indians served in the British military for centuries, I would NOT be surprised!

[@DMoNCFL]

This moment was pure delight.

[@NUFCMVFC]

"Say it Lynch - SAY IT!".... ...."Who gave you leave to move you Tub of Lard!".... Definetely within my top 3 episodes

[@motinmia5373]

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[@ianjacques-keen5945]

Sure the best scene ever in the whole series was when Liz Hurley (Lady Farthingdale) - Shape having just been promoted to Major - gets her tits out. Mmmmnnnnnnn yummy 😋😎🤓😏🤗🙄

[@andyfarrell9785]

Happy St Patrick's day, Harper! God save Ireland 🇮🇪

[@neondragon1820]

I love the smirk Charlie Weller gives while being called filth as he knows Sergeant Lynch is going to get his cumoeuppance

[@JnEricsonx]

Plus wasn't that the guy who tried to save the dog earlier? That scene made my heart hurt.

[@odonnell1218]

Most satisfying payback ever!

[@michaelmitchell9655]

The better payback was in battle when Lynch, naturally a yellow bastard, turned to run and was bayoneted by two of his former recruits, who addressed him as "filth!" as he died.

[@aidanmercer9422]

Legend has it he’s still screaming “God save Ireland!”

[@FirstnameLastname-py3bc]

Sharpe, the greatest TV series I have ever seen

[@Mr.BednaR]

Lynch's acting is perfect here. That confusion and fear mix...with a good dose of disgust.

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

Harper's facial expressions are great. 😂

[@CarzorStelatis]

0:13 Lynch is the only one that recognises either of them without being told

[@karazor-el6085]

"Did you ever imagine that, one day, you would be taken to account for your nonsense by the last person you'd expect to do it?" "...Well, that's NOW, that's HERE, and that's ME!"

[@miked7296]

I watch this scene at or around St. Patrick's Day.

[@dantheman4908]

I think non-Irish people should two😂

[@juanbarba95]

@@dantheman4908 I'm Spaniard Sir

[@marvinnope6050]

I am not Irish, but i am very Happy he got Revenge. GOD SAFE IRELAND

[@Yet_Another_Steve]

Daragh O'Malley was and always will be my favourite Sharpe actor. Edit: Having said that, Robert Patterson puts on a good show as Lynch in this episode.

[@Fr0st1989]

God, when Lynch turns around and stares straight at Harper's chest fuckin kills me lmao

[@jamesh9647]

Harper goes from a sleeping drunk regular rifleman to the sgt major of the 1st battalion

[@SMChurchill]

As a Brit "God save England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales", and hopefully many more years of peace between us all :-)

[@thatchannel195]

God save you all from foreigners

[@josiahfleming7549]

God save you all from yourselves as well. A lovely little mess to sort out, eh?

[@michaelsteinrok3002]

I think that rather makes you English old chap.

[@dxfan18]

Agreed. I have Scots-Irish blood in me, so I definitely support this quote.

[@Kitiwake]

We don't want to be saved with England.

[@TheNerdForAllSeasons]

Now that's training.

[@filipjezercic9735]

Legend says that the he is still yelling " God save Ireland" to this day.

[@pertuk]

his ghost is!

[@filipjezercic9735]

@@pertuk man its been so long hes determined

[@pertuk]

@@filipjezercic9735 he still haunts the site of that camp

[@filipjezercic9735]

@@pertuk you can hear it even better if your first middle or last name is Patrick or Harper

[@user-mk4kj4ti2b]

Boot Camp is changed so much in the last 200 years. I’ve never seen these hats.

[@claudemaassen2963]

One of my favourite episodes also.

[@ryangrant9885]

One of the best scenes. :D

[@juanbarba95]

This a one scenes, who unify us to men who loves Ireland. It doesn't mean if we're catholics, puritans and angicans. I'm Spaniard and I'm thankfull because an Unionist and Puritan showed me that Irish soldiers were greatest heros in Spain against Napoleonic Frenchs.

[@AnikaJarlsdottr]

Sgt Mjr Harper, god bless that magnificent man!!!

[@bread_n_butter8614]

Brilliant

[@tflynn2400]

Harper was always my favorite.

[@LostInTheFarmersMarket]

The best part of this clip is at 0:48 when you can literally see where Lynch does not know if he should shit or go blind

[@tomlykhonglah4346]

Lynch a very very good actor

[@EDProductionsYT]

I am an Irishman GOD SAVE IRELAND

[@hardwirecars]

God save America is what we need right now.

[@EDProductionsYT]

NEVER

[@DoctorBastard]

That polite little enquiry before the shouting begins. 😅

[@JnEricsonx]

No one ever said a Irishman can't be polite at first. :)

[@juanbarba95]

@@JnEricsonx what Irish? Catholic or Anglican? Puritans from Ireland are proud with their Faithfull and Separation between State and Church. The Anglican people could tell themselves they are the best because Church of Ireland is Superior to Roman-catholic and Puritans.

[@NgJackal1990]

I loved this show when I was young =D

[@Horizon344]

How old are you now?

[@thomaswhittaker4137]

I still love it and I'm 70

[@davidryley4162]

Daragh carried that role, off superbly

[@jimcockburn3563]

Excellent!,

[@paulsmith-ll9vg]

i`m sorry but i don`t care how many times i`ve watched this scene, and believe me when i say it`s probably quite a few, but i don`t think that it`s ever possible to fall out of love with this scene, and i don`t know what amuses me more the look on lynch`s face when he not only realise`s that harper is standing behind him, and especially when he thought that he was someone else let alone possibly dead, but then to find out that he`s a huge regimental sergeant major, or the look of delight on harpers face that he can now get revenge, and off course during the last part of sharpe`s regiment some squaddie takes it upon his self to finally send this fiendish and brutal person finally to where he belongs, hell, i only wish i could have done it myself.

[@williamvalentino2895]

Harper is my kind of no boy do I miss the good old days

[@justinianthegreatandnerd6377]

God Save Ireland said the heroes! God Save Ireland said they all!

[@gus7850]

lol the look on lynch's face when he turns smack dab into the chest of a big Irish Sergeant Major

[@johnmunro4952]

LOOOOOUUUUDEEER!

[@juanbarba95]

Louuuudeeer!!!!!

[@finnmcool2]

Good sense of self preservation on that man.

[@spectra2005]

love that guy harper hes sick!!

[@seanjones2524]

This was my uncle when he'd come over and find me supporting Wales in the footy. God save me if I supported England, or hear another story about Georgie Best or Frank Stapleton for that matter.

[@KrypticWarrior2]

love it when harper gets out his little pencil and pad to write the guys name down

[@sksaddrakk5183]

I think in the books he was illiterate, but I might be wrong

[@TheAzureNightmare]

@@sksaddrakk5183 If he was, that Dickhead, Sharpe, probably taught Pat what William Lawford learned him.

[@mardyben137]

Oh the irony that Paul McGann was originally the first choice to play Sharpe, having starred with Daragh O'Malley in Withnail and I! Could just see Harper during this scene : "I called him a ponce, and now I'm calling YOU a ponce. PONCE!"

[@SantomPh]

He became Lt Bush instead.

[@JnEricsonx]

@@SantomPh I thought he became The Doctor instead?

[@yank-tc8bz]

Always thought Ian McShane more closely matched Sharpe in the books.

[@JnEricsonx]

@@yank-tc8bz Then there'd be a lot more of a different word than "bastard" being said by Sharpe.

[@logie3020]

Best part in the whole show. GOD SAVE IRELAND. "And you are filth"

[@Kitiwake]

Today it's GOD SAVE IRELAND, SAID THE QUEERO"

[@ghostlypresence5362]

Lynch is such a villain, really enjoyable character

[@warpigeonofdoom]

Any Englishman when Ireland is playing France

[@LayneBenofsky]

Now that's hollerin'!

[@CorsetLebelle]

Truly a sgt major

[@GWRProductions-kg9pt]

never piss the Razzman off

[@gordonbaird8163]

just a good program

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

GOD SAVE IRELAND!!! And I’m Canadian.

[@clonecommanderfoggy682]

Well aren't you a traitorous traitor then?

[@FPSIreland2]

CloneCommander Foggy A Dhia, sábháil Éire!

[@juanbarba95]

Can you translate at English please?

[@benditto1295]

God save Ireland!!! And I’m Pakistani :)

[@michaelking9772]

Cried the heroes.!!!

[@HJLusio]

What we don't get to see here is Lynch shitting bricks to no end

[@oranscully5327]

Wellington was born in Dublin Ireland. He was an Irish Aristocrat. Not really on the side of the native people but it has to be said he was a Dubliner.

[@duckmansam5046]

Implying Dublin isn’t ethnicity Anglo-Celtic

[@SantomPh]

He is said to have stated that "being born in a stable does not make one a horse." One of the few mispoken words in his lifetime.

[@dlxmarks]

His family was Anglo-Irish from the Protestant migration so a people distanced from the native Irish and the Catholic Anglo-Irish of earlier stock.

[@ParagonRex]

@@dlxmarks He was born in Ireland, he was Irish, probably the finest Irishman to ever draw breath, Ireland hasn't produced shit worth mentioning since Wellington. And saying that his family was English transplants and thus not true Irish is bullshit, that means that the Irish are not true Irish because most of them are descended from the Scottish colonizers from even earlier on.

[@dlxmarks]

@@ParagonRex I never stated that he wasn't Irish and if the criterion is being born in Ireland, then he was. My point is that he and his class held themselves apart from the others especially the Catholic ones. I don't know how many ways he self-identified over the course of his long life but I'm convinced he would have never called himself Irish.

[@elizabethtrudgill8226]

LOUDER.

[@chriscolton6329]

Big Daragh was great as Pat... 😂

[@f-town-kill3rsarchive983]

try an pause at 1:04 when hes eyes open lool

[@Papai_Pai]

Looks like you can pinpoint the second his heart ripped in two

[@hobanagerik]

Hahaha. He looks like he knows he’s about to pass a watermelon. The personification of terror! 😂

[@juanbarba95]

How many unionists from Northen Ireland love this scene? I'm Spaniard and I'm very proud because the first man who took the first Imperial French Eagle was an Irishman. Sorry Englishmen, I'm monarchist and I love the green Ireland. God Save Ireland. Don't be shy. I respect every branch of Christrianisme.

[@juanbarba95]

And sorry for my question because I don´t want hurt to anyone.

[@sl_721]

Unionists from the North of Ireland don’t deserve an opinion. Catholicism is the true faith 🇮🇪🤝🇪🇸

[@LetsTakeWalk]

Reminds me of Band of Brothers, where Captain Winters orders his old drillsergeant to salute him.

[@voorth]

"Captain Sobel, we salute the rank, not the man" - Major Winters Sobel was his commanding officer, not a drill sergeant...

[@lochnessmonster5149]

God save Ireland.

[@Nobody-471]

Louder!

[@bigd8924]

God Save Ireland indeed...

[@inceptionsfx8771]

God Save Ireland

[@johnbradshaw2347]

God Bless America. Say it Lib. God bless America. Louder! God bless America! Louder! God bless America!

[@priitmolder6475]

"LOUDER!!!!"

[@boyscouts83712]

0:14 Hello there

[@FireDragonArmy2]

I dreamed of a hornblower/sharpe crossover. Would’ve been awesome to watch those two totally not get allong.

[@lilpotayto]

A friend of mine loves Hornblower and I love Sharpe. Both of us have been trying to get the other to watch our show but neither of us has gotten around to it yet. I've heard it's really good though!

[@jamesshaw3500]

That looks so painful for him to say.

[@RecklessFables]

He was so young then

[@davidekstrand8544]

“I am Sgt. Maj. Harper of the the First!… And just who are you… filth?” SCORCH!

[@The_Saxon_of_Riverstone]

Rofl. I love it.

[@nathanaelheil2818]

LOUDER!

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

That's soldiering.

[@juanbarba95]

Of couse sir.

[@Thevoidlezz]

ahh good to see a true patriot

[@TigerBaron]

GOD, SAVE, IRELAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND

[@juanbarba95]

God Save Kingdom of Ireland!!!!!!

[@chunmingchan8312]

Sweet revenge for the Irish

[@Briselance]

01:00 Recruit stifling a giggle.

[@BioshockFan91]

LOOUUDDDEEEEERRRRR!

[@mayhemmacraider4737]

I watch this clip a few times a year just because, filth.

[@al3e2x19]

did anyone else notice lynch near piss himself ?

[@kaczynskis5721]

I never found Harper's forays into Irish nationalism convincing - it was barely a decade since the '98 Rebellion, there were participants in it who had managed to escape and were on the French side, and who had some success in enlisting Irish POWs taken from Wellington's army into an "Irish Legion". Such a patriotic Irishman as Harper might be considered a potential defector to the French, especially given that there was a long Irish tradition of fighting for France - the "Wild Geese" and so on.

[@stanklepoot]

Yes, and both the Sharpe and Hornblower series have movies where that is a main theme. I don't see what's out of the place with Harper, however. Someone who loves his home and isn't happy with the idiots running it, but doesn't run off to join a rebellion, is far from unheard of.

[@kaczynskis5721]

@@stanklepoot Harper seems to me anachronistic, with a 20th century sensibility in an early 19th century character. I am not sure a nationalist Irishman would merely have been unhappy with 'idiots' running his country - the way was open for him to form more radical conclusions than that. Yet he is a talented NCO in an army in which a Catholic Irishman like him does not even have full civil rights, and even later in the century, in the Crimean War, English officers would refer contemptuously to "Irish regiments" and associate them with indiscipline. It is perhaps at a tangent but I am reminded of 'The Mackenzie Break', in which a German U-Boat captain who is a POW asks why his antagonist, an Irishman, is a captain in a British army which has murdered his people for centuries. The Irishman does not actually have a good response - but essentially he is a cynical crime writer and detective, and uninterested in politics. He certainly would not have one of his NCOs bellowing 'God Save Ireland' on the parade ground.

[@frankmacgabhann7701]

We should have turned our guns around and shot the officer scum🎱

[@jamesfinlay8180]

What makes you think that Wellington would have defected? Wellington is one Irish man who would never have defected.

[@olddog6658]

As US army deserters they fought for Mexico in the 1848/9 war and were executed on capture. The San Patricio brigade...

[@CaptainChip501]

Harper showing the torment the Irish face against the damn British! GOD SAVE IRELAND AND HURRAH ME BOYS FOR SERGEANT PATRICK HARPER!

[@jareddayton7121]

He got owned