The Band, Bugles, Pipes and Drums of the Royal Irish Regiment - Combined Irish Regiments Cenotaph

The Band, Bugles, Pipes and Drums of the Royal Irish Regiment marching in the 2023 Combined Irish Regiments Association Cenotaph Parade held on Sunday 11th June in London. The Band left Wellington Barracks at 0855 and marched to Whitehall down Birdcage Walk. The Cenotaph parade and service then stepped off at 1030 where they were joined by the Pipes and Drums of the London Irish Regiment. The Royal Irish Regiment contingent then marched back along Birdcage Walk to Wellington Barracks playing a selection of music listed below:
March down Birdcage Walk to Whitehall:
00:00 The Advance
00:17 Tercentenary March (Old Regimental Marches)
02:02 Wellington
03:18 Green Glens of Antrim/Star of County Down/South Down Militia
05:26 Killaloe
The Cenotaph Parade:
07:47 Green Glens of Antrim/Star of County Down/South Down Militia
11:58 Caubeen Trimmed with Blue
14:33 Pathway to Peace
17:26 The Bugles, Pipes and Drums of the London Irish Regiment
17:46 Kilaloe
20:48 Off, Off Said the Stranger
March Back to Wellington Barracks:
21:45 The Advance
22:08 Tercentenary March (Old Regimental Marches)
23:18 Green Glens of Antrim/Star of County Down/South Down Militia
24:20 Wellington
25:22 Killaloe
28:08 Tercentenary March (Old Regimental Marches)
The band, bugles, pipes and drums were under the direction of WO1 Bandmaster Douglas MBE.
This was the 100th anniversary of this parade taking place at the Cenotaph in London.
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[@Dan-tf1zq]

I never cease to be amazed at the stamina of military musicians. The British really know how to put on a parade. I always enjoy seeing all the veterans participating in these memorial parades.

[@williameade5503]

Love military music

[@user-vw6db3hi3i]

I am from Country Kildare and I always love to hear the Irish pipes and brass band 🎉❤🎉

[@Ann-qf5vk]

I'm in Scotland and so agree with you 👋👋👋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@peterc1927]

Proud to be Northern Irish listening too tunes from "our wee country" What a Regiment!!!

[@sowitandhopeitgrows]

There are members of the British Army that were born, raised, and educated in the Republic.... I know a number.....

[@peterc1927]

@ecathalin it's good to see that the British Army is All inclusive regardless where your born or what religion you are.

[@sowitandhopeitgrows]

@@peterc1927 absolutely ❤️😊👍

[@davecroad6277]

They are brilliant you are right to be proud good on you

[@peterclohessy9425]

All Ireland 🇮🇪 with good news with Britain 🇬🇧 way forward . We're too small

[@andrewsundell2502]

Not just musicians but fighting men & women; during the Great War the Irish together with the Scottish Regiments were always the first out of the trenches. Lest we forget!

[@sugarkane4830]

So everyone else just didn’t bother then? Ridicules statement.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Brave ❤ proud men & woman over history & will never be forgotten as u say 😊 the first out of the Trenches RIP to all the fallen. Mum & Dad loved the great Military bands & the Salvation Army 😊

[@maggisteele4342]

Wow this is what' you call a band,absolutely awesome ❤from a northern Irish woman ❤❤❤

[@richardcleveland8549]

Just watched this all are the way through; it was impressive, exciting and profoundly moving all at once. Britain's military bands are the best in the world - superb musicianship, great panache, impressive discipline - AND a reminder of the nation's past glories. The special days in their calendar, when not just the bands, but the veterans AND the colors of regiments that no longer exist separately, march together are not just impressive, but profoundly moving. Thanks so much for presenting this in its entirety. From an American Anglophile (AND Bandophile!)

[@margaretflounders8510]

I miss the Band from RAF Lakenheath that used to play Glen Miller songs on Angel Hill, here in Suffolk...

[@timcubison9832]

The only time Regiments cease to exist is when the Regiments formed by amalgamation from them forget there Regiments history. Meny Regiments when they run promotion courses internally give the attendees lectures on Regimental history and expect those attendees to research there history and give lectures in turn

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Amen 😊

[@106robbo]

A great parade of the combined Irish Regiments, with many of my old Comrades, well done Brothers and Sisters, Keep up the great work, Faugh-a-Ballagh./Quis Separabit.

[@mackan-kf4tg]

Not many recognise the 3 or 4 old guys from the North Irish Horse, one of the oldest regiments in the British Army!! Together with the South Irish Horse (disbanded 1922) they won more medals for Cavalry action than any other!!…..mad Irishmen charging in with courage….we owe them!!👍🏻👍🏻

[@donmorgan9139]

When I was in Omaha barracks 1956 doing my training before going into the regimental band , a young lad came in to our squad for two weeks training, and he was from a TA outfit, the north Irish horse, which many of us had never heard of

[@user-bh4rx8mf8g]

The North Irish Horse amalgamated to become B Squadron Queen’s own Yeomanry and have since been reorganised again to form a squadron within the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry. I served on Herrick with some lads from the Horse. They’re top lads and a cracking business-like regiment.

[@davidmiller3709]

Maternal grandfather and great-uncle were in the North Irish Horse in WW1. He and Uncle Ingram were both wounded. There is a contemporary newspaper report from Armagh reporting the successful person-to- person blood transfusion volunteered by Uncle Ingie saving the life of Canadian soldier who had lost a leg. Years later, my mother recalled a horse that was wild and untameable in Ballywalter where the family had a holiday home, and Grandpa went in and broke the horse.

[@margaretflounders8510]

Wow! That is amazing....What a story...@@davidmiller3709

[@timcubison9832]

When was the North Irish Horse raised. I know meny of the current reserve Regts traice their formation back to the late 1700s. It is my understanding that the North Irish Horse have amalgamated with the Scottish yeomanry

[@freeman8128]

Respect to all our fighting men - strong defenders of our freedom.

[@Ann-qf5vk]

Absolutely

[@Goodness726]

I absolutely love the piccolo in the wellington march. So well played ! It was all amazing from start to finish

[@Ann-qf5vk]

I just have so much respect for all those people

[@timcubison9832]

The Irish have a long and distinguished history in the British Army. Indeed of all 8 regiments in the Household Division only the Irish Guards were formed because of bravery. The Irish people have for centuries been the back bone of the British Army indeed in the Pennisular War apart from the dozen or so Irish Regiments in his army a very high proportion of "English and Lowland Scotish" Regiments personnel where Irish! The United Kingdom has a lot to be proud of its Irish troops over the centuries

[@michaelfox263]

Five regiments of Foot Guards, two regiments of Household Cavalry. This makes seven. Am I missing something? Or are you counting 1st and 2nd Life Guards prior to amalgamation?

[@alfieosborne5608]

Great to hear some good auld Irish tunes playing through London 🇬🇧☘️

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

Is it just me or do the irish regiments have the best marches. Killaloe has got to be one of the finest marches of the british army

[@alfieosborne5608]

@@jonathanmckillen8487 yes the Irish regiments are some of the best in many ways 🇬🇧☘️

[@countycricklewood]

What a difference a well trained Bugles P&D sounds and looks like. Wonderful seeing the Gurkhas & IDF

[@alfieosborne5608]

@@countycricklewoodindeed

[@ronniemac2636]

​@@jonathanmckillen8487It's British son.

[@robertruddock9808]

Brilliant, God bless you all 🇬🇧☘

[@Ivc406]

Well,who can beat that (drum)😂 seriously most enjoyable love the individual bugles great band best regards from Scotland 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@philwilson]

I am proud of my Irish heritage. My Wilson family came from Ireland about 1845 and settled in Wolford Township, near Merrickville, Grenville County, Ontario, Canada, where my grandfather Byron Wilson was born.

[@markymark272]

Many Wilson's served in the Irish Regiments. Royal Irish Rangers was my time.👍

[@philwilson]

@@markymark272 I must be related to them! Pro Patria! Regards from London, Ontario, CANADA

[@user-lt7kn1sl8e]

Bloody hell, that was a long march. Well played everyone. You did yourselves proud.

[@frankofarrell3835]

Superb represents everything that’s good about the Irish close connection to the British Army

[@philwilson]

Thanks for sharing this video and great music. Pro Patria! Regards from London, Ontario, CANADA

[@mikemurphy5477]

Star of County Down always gets me, one of my all time favorites.

[@sandymcghee3328]

Awesome thanks for sharing it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧👌👌

[@davidcullen1956]

sometimes after a long hard training exercise we marched behind the band back to barracks. What a pick you up it was, fantastic

[@grahamfrear9270]

It's lovely to see in the Northern Irish royal regiment especially the marching and the pipes and uniforms. 🇬🇧💪

[@donaldstewart9827]

They are loyal to England and their English masters.

[@JamesRyan-rl6wv]

It's money, Donald. Nothing more or less.

[@judyc9380]

Those are the tunes my great grands listened to in the old country, how they must have missed home.

[@phoebus007]

Good to see that the Irish Defence Forces (Republic of Ireland) were also represented on the parade.

[@frankeasterling3402]

Were they?

[@phoebus007]

@@frankeasterling3402 Clearly to be seen at 20:22.

[@pampeterson5547]

@@phoebus007 given they were and remain opposed to the UK and supported Hitler and the nazis during WW11 … as well as the IRA in much more recent times are you sure that’s correct given the number of British deaths they are responsible for?

[@phoebus007]

@stephenjamison6124 See link above.

[@pampeterson5547]

@stephenjamison6124 I don’t understand … what are you questioning?

[@davidherrera5885]

I'm from Chile, I love this band

[@murdiekennedysongs9192]

My late Father served with distinction in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers!!

[@dot2562]

What was his name?

[@musashikojiro7139]

2:46

[@rosincox9799]

My paternal Grandfather also .My father was born in Enniskillen .

[@oml81mm]

Good to hear "Off, Off, Said the Stranger" again.

[@davecroad6277]

What a brilliant band they made me feel so proud and I not Irish

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

My local band . The busiest army reserve band of the british army i believe and one of the best in my opinion

[@davecroad6277]

I totally agree with you they really are brilliant you must be really proud of them the British army wouldn't be the same without them I salute the Irish three cheers to all of them

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

​@@davecroad6277 many great videos of them on youtube. Enjoy sir

[@jillcinquegrani8263]

It amazes me how well they hold up to not only playing , but marching as well !! ( I ,m in awe...!!! ) Love the bagpipes ...

[@donaldstewart9827]

That's because it's harder to hit a moving target.🤣

[@gordoncobain4093]

Looking and sounding great….

[@michaellarking5487]

Absolutely the BEST filming I’ve seen on military bands, and the BEST military band out of all the videos I have watched over the years.

[@sandywilkie1169]

Absolutely fantastic. Thanks for posting the names of the tunes. I heard most of them before but didnt know what they were called.

[@ivanho2787]

22:48 St Patrick Day starts playing, wonderful piece

[@lLynne.Garner]

Love the music. Just want to sing along and brilliant display.❤❤❤

[@mervwhitney7229]

Thank you for this recording. Very enjoyable for those like me who were unable to be there..

[@flossyflue4305]

I didn’t realise that the Irish band played bag pipes. Thank you these should be shown on television in my opinion.

[@mikegraham1678]

They are at the Edinburgh military tattoo most years and have been for decades

[@flossyflue4305]

@@mikegraham1678 I have also been but I have sever sight loss, so wouldn’t have known. But looking on u tube closely on I pad. Thank you.

[@donmorgan9139]

Irish pipes have a more versatile chantor than Scottish pipes, we had them in the inniskilling band 1956/58 taffy morgan great time

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

​@@donmorgan9139are all the pipes in the british army not the same these days though ? Did the enniskillings use the irish pipes instead then ?

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

Irish pipers of the British army and the irish defence forces wear the saffron kilt rather than tartan thats how you can spot them.

[@doraldeddy1836]

Thanks MBE for posting. Love the bands, especially the mix of pipes, bagpipes, and brass! Lovely listening. Best wishes from Cornwall👍👍👍

[@bugler75]

The only Regiment left to retain the combination of Band, Bugles, Pipes and Drums. All due to Regimental history.

[@johnhumphries8555]

Absolutely fabulous.

[@steveforster9764]

St Patrick in the morning to Garry Owen in the same beat. Priceless

[@megw7312]

St Patrick is Ireland’s favourite welshman😅

[@senianns9522]

Just stumbled across this! Great--well filmed and recorded! Well done the RIR. Brilliant all round!

[@TW-mc9wk]

What a great combination of instruments

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

Only regiment in the british army to still have a band,bugles,pipes and drums. A great combination and sound

[@johnsabini2330]

Used to take my Sgt Major to these parades although partially sighted he always marched, he passed away during the COVID period. On Christmas I place a can of Guinness on his grave, he was ex RIF & LIR. ☘️👍

[@nihilmiror6312]

👍🫡 Old soldiers never die…🙏🕊️🇦🇺🦘

[@emstirling-is4nu]

God Bless you.

[@roderickbrett.8330]

Absolutely brilliant well done 👍👋

[@lizreaney436]

You are brilliant......from n Ireland I'm proud that we have brave men like yous band brilliant....xxx

[@DavidBarry-vj6dd]

London Irish. Fantastic.

[@seanwalker6460]

The old boys are dying out and with so few Irish units recruiting this will become a relic of a past era. I'm sorry to say - as one whos brother and father served in the London Irish.

[@Scipionic1941]

Excellent.

[@paulinemuir6529]

Love the band ❤

[@glynjones9988]

To Killaloe: "You may talk about your Guards, boys, Your Lancers and Hussars boys, But we're the Connaught Rangers, The boys who fear no dangers, The Rangers from old Connaught YAH!!! The land across the sea."

[@elizabethfairlie8296]

Wonderful. Thankyou

[@robertedwards3128]

Well done D/M Smith, immaculate as ever !

[@Ann-qf5vk]

Is it just me who so admires the talent and stamina of these people ? Amazing

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

Great to see the band bugles pipes and drums of the royal irish regiment parading in london. Not a sight you see often. An excelent army reserve band based in northern ireland

[@ulsterinfidel9897]

That is the 1st battalion Royal Irish Regiment band they are Regulars the 2nd battalions band which is Reserves is only a pipe band with no bugles flutes etc

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

@@ulsterinfidel9897 im afraid your wrong the band are all reserves based at kinnegar army reserve centre in holywood.. the regular band where disbanded in 2007 and almagamted with the northern ireland Ta band to form a new reserve band the rir reserve band that we have today.

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

@@ulsterinfidel9897 the 1st battalion rir are the regular battalion based at tern hill the 2nd battalion are reserves based in northern ireland. but the regimental band are also all reserves .

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

@@ulsterinfidel9897 BAND OF THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT The Band of The Royal Irish Regiment is an Army Reserve Band based in Holywood, Co Down. We are the only service band permanently based in Northern Ireland. We provide musical support to both the military and civil communities both at home and further afield. We are a busy symphonic wind band of 35 musicians made up of woodwind, brass and percussion. We often perform at concerts, marching displays, fanfare teams, Ceilidh groups and brass and flute ensembles. We are looking for able musicians who would like to earn some extra money doing something they enjoy. We welcome men and women from all walks of life.

[@emstirling-is4nu]

Negative Remarks have been taken off.

[@amandalyons1719]

Very proud Greenfinch here😉

[@neilritson7445]

what are you on about????

[@emstirling-is4nu]

Obviously the comments I replied to have been taken down/deleted!@@neilritson7445

[@brigiddinsmore]

Great Pride for all our Greenfinchs.

[@emstirling-is4nu]

Negative remarks have bee taken off so I have amended mine.@@neilritson7445

[@MervynMcClenaghan]

Right know how to play great music as always

[@carolinestirrup7422]

Absolutely fantastic

[@brigiddinsmore]

My late mother was " born and reared " in Enniskillen. A second home to me.

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

Enniskillen was the only town in GB and ireland to have its name associated with two regiments

[@pjmoseley243]

so proud of my Irish cousins

[@BennyPurdy]

Not irish they are British its just the name of the regiment. Its home is in Northern Ireland UK

[@daviddoyle5291]

Nice to see Irish Army contingent marching and Irish Army veterans also marching.

[@alanedgar5146]

Not the Irish army but royal Irish regiment part of British army

[@phoebus007]

@alanedgar5146 Not so. There were about half a dozen representatives of the Irish Defence Forces marching in the parade. See at 20:20.

[@jonathanmckillen8487]

​@@alanedgar5146look at 20:23 thats the irish defence forces

[@asolerno]

Muy bello!!! Gracias por subirlo

[@colinlambert882]

Right, left, right , left! The band was marching on the offbeat during the first March out of Wellington barracks but got it right the second time around!

[@harryellis7642]

I enjoy the combined sound of the pipes& the silver bands👏👏🤔🤔

[@judyc9380]

All fine musicians, strong horns.

[@Weir436]

Off, Off, Said the Stranger. What a march!

[@jimfield3660]

great show

[@rab1688]

Superb.

[@margaretflounders8510]

I think all our Military Bands are superb!

[@colingreenaway45]

BEST Military Band in the World FAB

[@petergarthwaite6805]

Awesome 👏

[@anthonybrownhovelt]

Nice to hear the old Regimental Tunes in the last section, Including Glen Gary!

[@anthonybrownhovelt]

Probably actually Gary Own! Dyslexia rules, ko!

[@susancowan3221]

Magnificent!

[@herbertjohnston4608]

Looking good lads crack on 🇬🇧

[@roseogrady8785]

A Good Sight to See.

[@christinadooley344]

Proud of my Fermanagh Roots ❤

[@user-ie1kd9of4w]

Thrilling !!!!

[@raulgaraycochea4883]

Espectacular desfile con las Gaitas ! Saludos de ,un gaitero ,felicitaciones 😃🇬🇧🎇🎇🎇

[@johnsabini2330]

Good band, the base drummer deserves a few pints of the black stuff for his performance 👍

[@johnmayer9398]

Fantastic stuff

[@samsambelfast]

Yes my boys. I’ve played with the se guys at a tatoo in karrickfergus with my school pipeband

[@Atomic568]

Carrickfergus with a C not a K.

[@samsambelfast]

@@Atomic568 woopsie

[@MiguelGonzalez-cb2og]

Good day, in Ireland, they have well concent of music with army, Ok

[@instigatorobearga]

Saoirsí Idirnáisiúnta a throid na hÉireannaigh laistigh d'Fhórsaí Impiriúla na Breataine. Dia, Rí agus Tír.

[@johannesmohner7823]

Beautyfull weather

[@AlexJacksonTempleSounds]

very smart indeed

[@proddypapa7965]

lookin smart n sounding great troops .worked wae a sqaud eh your guys on opp banner in the 1ST BN KINGS OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS .

[@jeremycox571]

I like the bagpipes personally !

[@jacobaras2589]

🎉pragtig🎉

[@felicienneicilef18]

Honneur et respect a nos amis Anglais.

[@revthom1238]

Irlandais.

[@roberthultz9023]

Garryowen and Glory !!!

[@WintersWar]

Favorites are St Patrick's Day and Star of County Down

[@robertoalsina1288]

La primer marcha que figura en el video como "Tercentenary March" (Old Regimental Marches), creo es la Marcha de "San Patricio"; marcha con la que el Almirante Guillermo Brown -Padre de la Armada Argentina- (Irlandés del sur), tomó la Isla Martín García, en el Río de la Plata. Cuando desembarcaron sus hombres, ordenó avanzaran a los sones de un pífano y un tambor. con los que ejecutaban tal marcha.

[@John-nf9ip]

I've always been amazed how the English have both admired and denigrated us Irish down through the ages 🤔

[@Brecconable]

20:40 Gentlemen, the 1st Battalion, the Rhodesian Light Infantry!

[@kennethmcdonald5278]

Being a descendant of a Coady , bless you boys !

[@herbertroberson9540]

Gary Owens ... U.S. 7th Calvary theme march

[@rvierra7235]

Very cool!!👍

[@user-yo8rp2sz9x]

Is this a regular band?

[@MilitaryBandsEverywhere]

It is one of the army reserve bands, the only one based in Northern Ireland.

[@dougplays1240]

It’s interesting how you have captured footage of MrBaton74, who was filming the same parade and has also posted it on KZbin, with his footage also showing you at times.

[@MilitaryBandsEverywhere]

London is a very small place! Unintentional crossovers do happen. I suppose it gives the viewer a fun game of film the enthusiast haha!

[@donaldnoonan]

Wonderful

[@tommyneill5128]

Well done FAB

[@davidcullen1956]

Faugh a ballagh / Faugh an beallach