Irish Descendants - Come Out Ye' Black And Tans

[@dangerjoe8911]

"Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders" may be the most epic provocation ever.

[@DellaStreet123]

Maybe she doesn't want to know.

[@nelotharen8599]

He won the medals at ypes. He didn't claim the black and tan medals lol

[@herewardthewake5502]

@@grahamschmidt2561 You are fuck all all and never will be.

[@ArgLarper]

Graham Schmidt I didn’t get it, what do you mean?

[@danielmorgoone131]

@@herewardthewake5502 What? Aren't brits English?

[@denfenrir520]

Imagine an irish guy singing this song in british got talent

[@erikdalna211]

The English would not understand what it’s about. That’s the thing about imperial arrogance, the oppressed suffer and the oppressor doesn’t even acknowledge it.

[@TGBurgerGaming]

I just died actually imagining this.

[@TheDaverobinson]

@@erikdalna211 Nah - we know all about it - its just not that big a deal over there.

[@itsvortex0162]

@@erikdalna211 yea i didnt know how bad the people under britiah rule were treated until i looked in to it. I do gcse history and had no lessons on the brutal suppression of the natives and irish

[@declanbergin3167]

The British people are the biggest victims of Imperialism.

[@D0pam1n]

Didn't know the neighbours from 2 streets over were Irish cause they've been blasting this song for an hour now

[@concettaworkman5895]

Yep, the lizard is dead, now take care of her offspring, bhoyos!

[@mystery8guy]

Im Cypriot and i play this song on blast in Cyprus !!!

[@savage_the_wild]

👀

[@mosin_boi]

Go over, demand they turn it down so you can sleep, when they do, yell "long live the king!" Than run like the fucking devil is on your tail.

[@calebharris292]

@@mosin_boi unbased and peasent-pilled

[@sweunlicht8722]

I love Celtic culture language and history, greetings from Germany

[@MegaTRUTH007]

@@firetv2169Are these the guys whose U boats you fuelled at night those many years ago ?

[@CorkTheRealCapital]

@@MegaTRUTH007what are you talking about you twat

[@patkearney9320]

@@sweunlicht8722 It’s from your homeland began the beat of Europes hearts, remember my friend each culture has been innocent and guilty at different times and situations. Known define us as good or bad. Regards to you and yours ☘️.

[@aidanrockstar2003]

At an Irish pub in Anchorage, Alaska, the bartender let the little kids sing on the mic. It was cute, each singing a nursery rhyme until my 5 yr old daughter got up and started singing, “Come out ye Black and Tans”, and let me tells ye, the older Irish started pounding their fists on table and joined in tune. My father was born and raised in Galway, but my mother, who is American Indian, taught her the lyrics. It was a sight I tells ya! 🇮🇪

[@liamo7759]

Fantastic story greetings from cork eire

[@aidanrockstar2003]

Liam O , Oh us Irish ☘️ have the best stories... Sláinte!!

[@badasscustodes1697]

Will shite mate good job Now let's get those bloody black and Tans Join me Will ya

[@riotsquadgaming7460]

a touching story, but definitely /r/thathappened territory

[@mumblerinc.6660]

Of all the things that never happened, this happened the least. Americans cosplaying as Irish are so fucking cringey it should be against The Hague convention.

[@DingusBobingus5555]

WE'RE IN THE HOME OF THE ENEMY KAT-LEEN!

[@PotterPossum1989]

???

[@Thegodsunwantedchild]

EIGHT THOUSAND YEARS, KATHLEEN

[@Vlerkies]

@@PotterPossum1989 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fafZpY1_rM1neNU

[@munsteerarla6585]

@@adamrasnic9652 You stole your mothers phone again I see

[@adamrasnic9652]

Munsteer ar là 😂

[@larsuppling981]

Ancestry DNA: 1.2 % Irish. Me: I WAS BORN IN A DUBLIN STREET....

[@orcinus6802]

Lars Uppling Irish blood is the only blood that doesn’t dilute! 🩸🇮🇪

[@elcomandante240]

I am german and proud to be

[@elcomandante240]

But I love Ireland

[@larsuppling981]

@@orcinus6802 seeing as i am part ginger (my beard looks like a solstice bonfire on the moors of the emerald isle) and my Ancestry-search came back as having relatives in Great Britain. Then i am pretty sure i have a migrated irishman somewhere in the family.. xD

[@cernogoraz6980]

@@larsuppling981 well obviously you are more related to the English...a people half-Germanic, half-Celtic

[@bozhidarstefchov]

Irish are one of the warm-hearted people I've ever met 🇧🇬🍀🇮🇪

[@runtav_guz8564]

@@firetv2169 bruh

[@HighseekGaming]

Good if you're good, bad if you're bad

[@irishblondie6750]

💚🩶🧡

[@louisewilliams1258]

Yeah, it'll be their 😵🏴‍☠️ -- inviting the 🌍 in...

[@tatianalyulkin410]

​@redrickschuhart3836 And " dyakyyu " is Ukrainian.

[@misohoney1660]

Is there a word for feeling patriotism for a country you're not from or a part of? Because this song makes me feel it.

[@italia689]

"solidarity"?

[@A-4Skyhawk]

A Person I looked up solidarity and the first thing that popped up was My Little Pony, wtf?

[@markus3533]

agreed

[@Yom_Bristol]

Empathy. Are you from a country that the english ruled too? They destroyed Kernow's culture, just wish we'd fight back like the Irish

[@TheKalihiMan]

This song resonates with anyone who has experienced imperialist repression and its aftermath.

[@LancerIHR]

Much respect to the heroic people of Ireland from the Philippines. Hopefully, your troubles will not be forgotten, and your beautiful country will peacefully reunify 🇵🇭💖🇮🇪

[@umgofficial1838]

Im texan but my grandad from ireland and my pops raised me with these songs and their stories so i still hold the culture very dear to my heart.

[@jackfrost1866]

set up an irish bar in your town and i will come over and sing these songs with you

[@sl_721]

Texas is so based

[@Pinkie007]

🇮🇪❤️🇺🇸

[@belfastorbust]

all lies an bullshit, the reality of irish republicanism is they targeted civilians with their bombs, they murdered children and not give a damn, many colluded with priests to rape kids, gerry adams brother is a convicted child abuser, even this week a very senior sinn fein/ira member has been arrested for raping kids, fuck the lot of them.

[@georgefromgreece4119]

And always do.

[@StevieObieYT]

"In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.” Opening line of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916

[@LastBrigadier]

lmao same republic that voted for the legalisation of baby murder.

[@belfastorbust]

dosent mention the rape and abuse of 1000s of children carried out by her leaders, thank fuck we stood firm against these filth, NO SURRENDER

[@Bronasaxon]

And now Ireland is getting flooded with middle easterners like the rest of Europe while the politicians feed people bullshit. Question is, what to do about it? Because voting hasn’t done much…

[@nat-fp1pq]

2023 that will be declared as racist hate speech lol

[@АлександрСидоров-ы2ф]

БРАВО !! ПРЕКРАСНЫЕ СЛОВА И ЛЮДИ !! С уважением из России !! Пусть Господь Бог и Матерь Пресвятая Богородица будут с вами !! 👏👍💪💪

[@freakingabagool3510]

The jungle might speak Vietnamese, the mountains might speak Pashtun, the deserts might speak Arabic, but the hedgerows speak Gaelic

[@fishnujish1511]

When the walls of Jishnu's house speak Matthew Parkinson

[@ehsan2501]

When they want to present Talib and Hamas fascists as the forces of Resistance! I see what you did there! ;)

[@mirzahamzabaig5667]

@@ehsan2501 I mean IDF acts more like fascists.. but ok

[@Crowborn]

@@ehsan2501 Wrong corner, imperialist. Go bark up the IDF's lap.

[@Soldadodelasombra]

@@ehsan2501 Smoked the imperialist

[@mrmcd215]

Playing this on repeat today.

[@aspecialmoose1474]

No cap

[@MohawkPotatoSA]

Lizzy's in a box

[@SDluka]

Same here in Serbia.

[@paulmlally1]

@@MohawkPotatoSA YUP YUP DARA

[@paulysinatra]

Same

[@crmgeschiedenis9940]

This song makes me proud to be Irish I’m Dutch

[@vincekerekes3770]

Bruh moment

[@ghoulkid3828]

This is the only comment I've read that hasn't made me want to break someones face

[@beckerqueiroz]

Same here. And I'm Brazilian, of Portuguese and Italian ancestry. :)

[@jamesdotson599]

Me, too, even though I'm a descendant of the American Pioneers and the Native Americans who fought for hundreds of years and also married one another. Sounds a lot like you Irish who both married and fought the Norse and English.

[@LegendarySpaceRipper]

This is not bad for a drinking song.

[@salsicha5305]

“We only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.”

[@joebloggs5318]

Lucky or hungry 😛

[@JackMcFord101]

Some of you Brits are good people. *Don't start your cars tomorrow.*

[@captrex7153]

Go on home British soldiers

[@ПётрКондратьев-к7ы]

tfw your protestant neighbour starts his car

[@sirbader1]

Dont go to Belfast tomorrow.

[@jirirowdyrampula4127]

Lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Unknown-ge1rg]

😂🤣

[@ciziktomas5034]

I am from Slovakia, we Slovaks fight 1000 years for independece from Hungarias they beaten us when we speak in Slovak language, they shots civilians in Cernova, now we have our freedon and independence ! And i stand with you my Irish friends!

[@johnshannow8524]

Skill issue.

[@DonaldJDuck-ql3jj]

🤓

[@memethingz6004]

@@johnshannow8524woah what an funny edgy boy

[@mucicafrajer]

​@@johnshannow8524HAHAHAHA YOURE SO FUNNY BRO LMAOO I AM ROLLING ON THE FLOOR

[@clodsirelover2501]

@@johnshannow8524 haha so funny this is called sarcasm seriously what is wrong with you?

[@Captain37684]

My huge respect and love for Irish people and culture from Greece🔵⚪

[@Alex-qj8si]

Ime misos kypros kai irlandos ine oi kaliteroi anthropoi ston planitoi 😁

[@kostasts5117]

Ela patrida

[@hiphip4808]

Add a red dot and you’re French

[@leonmorris7862]

@@Captain37684 funny you say that considering the amount of times us brits have had to save you from the nazi's itallians and communists aha

[@Captain37684]

@@leonmorris7862 Really??Can you tell me some of those times??Cause we won italians all alone and if im not wrong that was the first victory in ww2.Italians didnt sent reinforcements in north africa cause of Greece..2)we hold the germans more than anybody..Your help was a small force in creta after main greece was fallen 3)yes you helped with communists..We fought brave and paid with blood more than the most of the countries so england u.s.a and russia take all the credit like you fought alone..And take all the profit after war..Ofcourse greece under u.s.a and england like churchil arranged with stalin..Like they played chess Ps we still looking for greeces gold that you took in middle east to keep it safe Ps2 i wont say nothing about cyprus later and todays actions in greek turkish subjects(Turkey was standing with germany back then)..Greece must be happy with her allies..British people are great and they helped me personal but dont tell me about history

[@johnpark4650]

As a Korean whose country has similar history as the Irish, you got my respect to the fullest! May your fights never be forgotten!

[@HolyRomanEmperor90]

Yamagata Aritomo is cool.

[@dubious_demiurge]

who do you consider to be similar the invading English

[@maverickjohnson306]

@@dubious_demiurge Well they got plenty to pick honestly; the Mongols, Chinese but the most prominent I think would be the Japanese.

[@dayalasingh5853]

Well most of the world has got their own "English" to deal with, and half of them it's the English

[@belfastorbust]

irish republicans target kids FACT, even today a leading sinn fein was arrested for raping children, irish republicans are the scum of the earth

[@kmtforchina8916]

"How bravely you faced one with your sixteen-pounder gun"

[@kmtforchina8916]

Correction: it's "Loyal Drums would beat".

[@apotato6292]

That line sums up the British empire

[@abhisheknanda9956]

@Gracchus Babeuf but still better then the communist tho

[@MrMobiusfan]

@@abhisheknanda9956 Aye, the Communists would only kill them once. The Colonialists would forced every man woman an child to know the deaths of their language, religion, and culture before killing them.

[@Cobruh_Commander]

@@MrMobiusfan What are the Soviet genocides and Chinese Cultural Revolution?

[@BedroomPianist]

My blood alcohol level went up by 2% listening to this song

[@alexv3357]

2% per line, perhaps

[@lidlpropagandaministry2901]

And by the end of the song whole your blood will have been replaced with pure alcohol

[@user-bv9kw2rw5k]

Fucking light weight mine is at 100% when I am not listening to this song so take a guess what it is like when I am

[@CraicDealer]

Songs actually about a lot more than that but okay...

[@glennmckown788]

Its not a drinking song! Its a history of oppression

[@Kiwi-ys7je]

Happy Day of the Future Irish Reunification, what a most joyous occasion! I’d wish you strength from Armenia, but I think you’ve got plenty of that, so sending you love, take care friends, just a little bit longer until all your lands and skies are free once more. 🇦🇲❤️🇮🇪

[@SamSam-if6re]

As iam algerian lived in dublin for 17 years well known as ziggy in dublin i am very proud of the Irish blood and the way how thy stil still fighting for the cause i hope Albert from the north of Dublin can see that comment of me i miss broth and the cause will never dead

[@harisdedic9781]

Love for Irish people always. Respect from Bosnia.

[@TheRisen-sj2ef]

I love these kind of comments.

[@mr.knightthedetective7435]

Finally, one Bosnian comment after plenty of Croatian ones.

[@KunalSingh-kq9tk]

Hearing this song for the past 2 days. Mostly unknown but Indian freedom fighters were highly inspired by the Irish fighters and adopted many of their ambush tricks. We owe you 👍♥️

[@SILOPshuvambanerjee]

Love from Darjeeling

[@lephishe6271]

I actually have seen a video of a couple YPG fighters singing their own version of "Go on home British soldiers" to express respect for the IRA (while mostly telling the Turkish soldiers to get the hell out of Rojava lmao)

[@belfastorbust]

did indians purposely bomb civilians too? did they kidnap innocent people, beat and torture them then shoot them in the head, did they rape kids? these songs don't mention that, Irish Republicans.....scum of the land

[@lamalama9717]

Apparently Bhagat Singh respected Terrence McSwiney. 🇮🇪❤️🇮🇳

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

I remember I was in a pub about 6 years ago and an auld lad was giving us a few bars before closing when a Scottish fella asked him to sing an Irish patriotic song. He sung this and he enjoyed it, but we later learned why he sang it was coz his parents were absolutely tormented by Scottish Tans during the War

[@JeremyBryce-r5x]

Scottish Tans? Was there such a thing?!

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

@@JeremyBryce-r5x they were actually more brutal than the English tans during the war

[@MiloManning05]

@@JeremyBryce-r5xthey were the most brutal killers , one Scot Arthur Hardie even killed a local magistrate Robert Dixon in county Wicklow.

[@helenaville5939]

@@JeremyBryce-r5x Most of the Black and Tans were actually Scottish men.

[@connorwheatley5640]

@@JeremyBryce-r5x they were part of the Black and Tans like all nationalities in the UK were at the time.

[@lilmonkey9919]

I'm Welsh and only discovered this song from a previous KZbin video. My Grandfather was from County Cork and I'm so proud to have Irish blood in my family. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪 🔥

[@skippership7]

And so you should be proud of your Irish blood, however I would keep the Welsh bit quiet after all it was a Welshman who sent to Black and Tans into Ireland in the first place and the very same Welshman who divided Ireland in 1922.

[@sethman76]

I am as well. 60% Welsh and 40 Irish.

[@sethman76]

@@skippership7 The thing is, like any two countries that spar in history, they interbred. Those ill disputes are long passed.

[@skippership7]

@@sethman76 Don't be so silly, how can the devision of Ireland be "in the past".

[@skippership7]

@@Pinkie007 Why does everyone think Churchills responsible for everything bad? Churchill was only colonial secretary not PM in 1921and as such he was just the go-between for the British Cabinet, so who was Churchills "boss" at the time and also the British PM from 1916 to 1922 and the one who was making all the decisions and pulling all the strings?...and his name was ******* who was *******

[@TheMidnightModder]

I love how scottish and irish music influenced Appalachian music as well as culture.

[@jpettit27]

Large swathes of Appalachia were settled by Scots/Irish so that checks out.

[@rocco2205]

I hadn’t realized but it’s sounds similar!

[@rodneyadamson8270]

My family the clan Adamson came to Maryland in the late 1600s.. Adamson’s choice ❤ we are proud Scots Irish!!!!!

[@johndoe-cc9cw]

American man with DNA from county kerry Ireland. Here to say cheers to all my Irish brothers and sisters all over the world!

[@jackfrost1866]

american is citizenship, irish is ethnicity, you are irish

[@retrobluemusic]

this song make me proud of my irish heritage as an irish Canadian like this group!

[@skippership7]

It's just unfortunate that Frank is mocking the Irish in the song not the British.

[@icingbunstomatocardtom]

@@skippership7 opinions like buttholes...common as fish in the ocean

[@retrobluemusic]

@@skippership7 for always getting drunk and picking fights? hey thats part of our culture!

[@skippership7]

@@icingbunstomatocardtom Indeed, but facts and the truth aren't that common. I'm afraid that ignorance is also as common as anal sphincters and opinions, especially with those who have not been enlightened by great Irish social history literature.

[@retrobluemusic]

@@skippership7how is he mocking them it sounds like hes mocking the british ww1 vets.

[@AGG1982]

Iam from norway and this song give me the chills aswell,.

[@patkearney9320]

@@AGG1982 That’s because your people are much like us Irish we share much respect to you and yours ☘️.

[@PhysicsForge]

Out of Ireland, Britain! Respect and suport from Brasil. Keep fighting, Brothers!!!

[@johnnyflorence219]

Makes my blood boil and my spirit soar, so much grief and bravery. Love and respect to my Irish brothers from Tulsa Oklahoma.

[@fredricknoe3114]

Tulsa gay -made by Edmond gang.

[@johnnyflorence219]

You have never even been in a street fight boy.

[@astrolillo]

Americans are always with the oppressor, in this case : the British

[@sl_721]

God bless brother 🇮🇪🤝🇺🇸

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Love and respect to my beloved Irish cousins from Burlingame, CA.

[@milosmilutinovic5649]

Slavs is like Celts... Ireland.. Like it flow threw my veins... My soul fly under green shores and mountains of Ireland

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Yep. The Irish Rebs and the Donbass Rebs are brothers.

[@daathseverus]

I’ve always loved this song. I’m from the States. Grew up in an Irish Catholic private school and Fr. Kevin was able to get me into H.S. In Belfast for a year and a half. Stayed with an amazing Republican Family.

[@lensnomad2190]

I don't have the slightest thing to do with Ireland or Britain, but still keep listening to song over and over

[@michaeldell4712]

Same. It stirs the blood.

[@pawel8365]

>Go to a party with English friends >"Don't be political ok?" >6 pints later...

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Me: Ah not this auld thing again. Me after a few jars: Come out ye black n' tans come out and fight me like a man!

[@ScottFieldsSWF]

@@SirAntoniousBlock LOL

[@JRock3091]

It took that many? I'll talk shit about the british for free in the morning sober.

[@ismr2356]

I don't know the details of this song in detail, but when I listened to it, I felt very courageous. I’m Japanese

[@dillbill7152]

It's about how the English cant crush the Irish spirit no matter what. Enduring all kinds of atrocities and humiliation and still being the bigger man. Nobody can ever put the Irish down.

[@ismr2356]

Shaurya Joshi and Dill Bill Thank you for teaching me. Let's take a look at the history of Ireland and Britain Anyway, this song is a good song

[@nore5992]

If some anime can make an Rebels and Car Bomb joke, It would be more interesting

[@wisteriablossoms1793]

The British forces where referred to as Black and Tans because they were half police half military. But they couldn’t defeat the spirit so they went scorched earth and burnt civilian homes and businesses to force submission. That’s what he means fight like a man, don’t cheap shot with innocent lives.

[@JackgarPrime]

@@dillbill7152 It also calls out the way they so ruthlessly exploited and demolished other peoples and cultures.

[@danielenriquez9800]

As a American we should support the Irish in their quest for freedom, live in and fight well brothers

[@catsandalcohol99]

Americans are just as imperialist as the British. Mexico and Ireland are closer as brothers.

[@Ooth9999]

Real Irish don’t like Americans and their weird obsession with us. Mup Mexico though Americans are just weirdos

[@cactuscultist_2307]

@@catsandalcohol99 ok Jose, now get back to mowing my lawn

[@liampetersen4853]

English rooineks

[@joebloggs5318]

You already did that it was called Noraid. Then 9/11 happened and your country was on the receiving end of terrorism and suddenly it didn't seem like such a good idea. By the way the Irish have been 'free' since 1922. Wales is sadly still under the control of England.

[@Swordsoulreaver]

Irish music is the best.

[@applo2134]

can't agree more

[@richardoneill4314]

Jaeden Edwards me too!!

[@connorshekelstein6432]

Jaeden Edwards i agree better then shitty rap in U.S.

[@jamesmurphy8676]

It's up there. Raising a glass of whisky to all you irish descendants!

[@connorshekelstein6432]

James Murphy i could use a glass of whisky or 20 this week has been hard on me

[@FokkeWulfe]

A couple years ago, when St. Patricks Day rolled around here in the US, I played this song, among others. It was amazing how many people, wearing green, gave me dirty looks for the music.

[@skippership7]

Of course they did as the song is instalting a group of Irish people not British, did you not know that.

[@FokkeWulfe]

@skippership7 I didn't know British soldiers, recruited in Britian, were Irish.

[@skippership7]

@@FokkeWulfe 20% of the Black and Tans were Irish and 80% of the RIC were Irish Catholics, but the song has nothing to do with the real Black and Tans or the WOI and is just about life in Dublin in the Irish Free State from 1928 to 1936. The real Black and Tans had been disbanded 6 years before in 1922. So it's an Irishman (ex IRA man and anti treaty man Stephen Behan) insulting other Irish people in Russell Street calling then "Black and Tans" as an insult. The English in the song (the loving English feet walked all over us) is a reference to the song writers grandmother (Stephen Behan's mother) who's real name was....Mrs Christine English, so it's the writer Dominic Behan insulting his own grandmother who he hated as she was a real life Dublin slum Landlady. She was the person Brendan Behan based his famous play "the Landlady"on. So, all is not what it seems. Let's not forget also Dominic Behan lived most of his life in Britain after he was jailed in Ireland and he even married a British girl who he was very much in love with.

[@FokkeWulfe]

@skippership7 the song is referring to the Black and Tans, the special reserve constables, recruited from WW1 *British* veterans, in Great Britian. The term is being used as a pejorative as well, referring to anyone pro-British. St. Patrick is often uses by the various Paramilitary groups of Ireland, as a symbol. After all, wearing o' Green, is much part of the rebel cause. I'd gather, your average gob wearing green, doesn't know what a Black and Tan was, nor who wrote the song. You at least know what the Black and Tans were, so I'll give you credit, but Stephen Behan didn't write it. Dominic Behan wrote it, and wrote it in the time frame of the War of Independence, of which his father Stephen was a veteran, when the Black and Tans were in existence, calling out to them to come fight him. The loving English feet were, in fact, the English, which held a lot of sway in Dublin at the time. The reason I was getting dirty looks, is I was playing Irish music, something most of those gobshites have never heard. St. Paddy's Day is a day to drink. It means little to nothing to the vast majority of people who "celebrate" it, so I'd wager, they weren't concerned with anything. Moreover, *some,* if not most, should be celebrating the song. That, or literally everyone celebrating is pro-British, which we both know, is not true. They also scoffed at Wearin' o' the Green, while wearing green, by the by.

[@skippership7]

@@FokkeWulfe I didn't say Stephen Behan wrote I said.... *so it's the writer Dominic Behan insulting his own grandmother* ...read my comments please. I think most Irish (if not all) know who the Black and Tans were (but could say about the plastics) and the IS NOT written about the time of the WOI...FULL STOP. Look at the first verse...The song is Autobiographical (look at the lyrics) and it's about Dominic Behan (I was born in a Dublin Street = Oct 1928 when he was born) and his father, Stephen Behan, who was an "ex IRA" (known as Rosie to his IRA comrades and of course one of Mick Collins's 12 apostles who became an anti treaty republican during the civil war and jailed by the Irish Free State), taunting his "anglophile Irish loyalist neighbours" with a sarcastic chant... "come out ye Black and Tans"... along Russell Street where they lived at number 14, coming out of James Gills pub (which is still there) drunk at a time when loyalist politicians (from the NLP party for example) were still being elected to the Dail in the 1927 election. The rest of the song is just Stephen taunting those same Irish loyalists neighbours with some British Army campaigns or events (the Easter Rising, WWI, Charles Stewart Parnell's downfall and 1 event only from the WOI) over the previous 50 years or so. Had you read Dominic's TofT's or some of Brendan's works or Kathleens memoirs you will know all this stuff. Or, you could just simply look up the song on Wikipedia which says the following: "While the song title and lyrics refer to the Black and Tans from the War of Independence, the song itself is a dispute between republican and unionist neighbours in inner-city Dublin in the Irish Free State era of the mid-1920s During this era, Dublin continued to elect unionist pro-British politicians and voluntary service in the British Army was a popular career choice amongst working-class Dubliners, for both Catholics and Protestants and The song uses the term Black and Tans in the pejorative sense against Irish people living in Dublin both Catholic and Protestant who were pro-British Loyalists Note the words Free State Era of the Mid 1920s so, by definition it can't possibly be about the WOI as the Free State era only came into being post 7th Jan 1922 so this was 1928 and years after the Black and Tans were disbanded and the WOI was had ended. As for the wearing of the green, that was from and different era and my guess is most people would look at you stupid if you asked them who James Tandy was (Napper Tandy and yet another great Protestant) or what he did, just like most Irish people look at you as if you were mad when you start taking about "Order 256" which of course was one of the most important events ever in Irish history. You have to remember that a lot of these songs are full of sarcasm and humour like the grand old dame Britannia for example, which is why I like them so much.

[@ernieerniez]

I'm Polish but still listening to this i feel like they are my brothers, even if we live in completely other sides of continent. Respect for the people of honour and truth.

[@3akcossack473]

I sang this song at an Irish pub in Russia in 2018 during the World Cup , and the British soccer fans were not happy 🤣🤣😎

[@johnf4279]

The unhappy Brits likely had no idea about the abuse that Ireland suffered under Brit occupation/oppression in the past. You won't learn the truth in English schools. The Empire was part of our 'glorious past'...

[@3akcossack473]

@@johnf4279 your right sir, I’m from Tennessee in the Appalachian mountains my family are Irish and English, they migrated here I was told by my great grandparents what there grandparents went through and it was terrible.

[@johnf4279]

@@3akcossack473 Respect to you Sir! The situation was really, really terrible. Mere words cannot describe the suffering. People dying from starvation when the local English landlords preferred to export their potatoes... You won't learn much about the 'Irish Famine' in English schools. But you can look online to see the hidden stuff. Knowing history is always cool I say: )

[@martynwilliams5751]

Hahahaha 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@whoyoucallinpinhead3523]

Good

[@tbalciunas333]

Looks like I have found my bar fight song

[@danelangnes6983]

*Equips broken bottle*

[@konstantineguruli]

God bless you, man! :D

[@ethantemple506]

This song: plays Some Drunken Boi: *Cowabunga It Is*

[@madfidler]

Apologies. Welcome Home :(

[@LegendarySpaceRipper]

Correct. Change the bottles with bombs. I.R.A loved their bombs on the innocent whilst complaining about the English.

[@jamesmacoisdealbhaigh9904]

Being proud Irish in my heart and soul is the most beautiful feeling in the world 🇮🇪☘️💚

[@0Zero_]

I may be a Brit (Though I'm partly Welsh) but I've got Irish heritage and I'm damn proud of it

[@Leeviii2024]

Old Great Grandfather was from Ireland came out to OZ and met my Great Grandmother who was a full blood Aboriginal Lady. One Love from Aboriginal Australia

[@subhajitnaskar1]

Cheers! Irish freedom fighters, long live independence!!! Salute from India!!!

[@dmahmutagic]

Im originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina and i love this song! I love the Irish and their music i be singing this song on my way to work it gets me pumped up.

[@IGOTCHAGABAGOOL]

*When the Dublin streets are speaking Gaelic*

[@numbskull4899]

Alternative: When the irsh bar starts speaking independence

[@jackoconnor6751]

And the cars start speaking gaelic

[@herewardthewake5502]

@Hoàng Nguyên Yes the Soviet has gone..................What model as Vietnam based on now?

[@herewardthewake5502]

@Hoàng Nguyên I'll fight against pollution with you, it shames us as a species, as does our cruelty but, don't ask me to fight yet another man made death cult all created in the mind.

[@raleighburner1589]

When the silly brits burned the white house in 1812

[@JohnnySplattWadd]

My dad is gone but I thank him eternally for leaving me this music. ☘

[@astranger7871]

The Queen is dead but Ireland will remain alive forever! Love letter from Iraq 🇮🇶❤️🇮🇪

[@Deridus]

Booyaa! Hope you're staying safe. I'd love to visit Iraq one day, pay my respects to some of my fallen friends in Baghdad and Mosul.

[@HibaAbdo-up2fk]

Iam from sudan so far ... But this song give big feeling about courage and dignity .. Amazing song , love irish , love the culture , one day iwill be there

[@cor9815]

And we'll be glad to have you, friend!

[@concettaworkman5895]

@@cor9815 Nope, wrong. Bloom where you are planted. How's thing going for you now?

[@Robbikelly]

You'll be welcome brother ✊ We need people who represent those qualities.

[@leescott1775]

and a million more

[@Pappenheim40]

For sure one of the best versions of this song.

[@brodiebruce3063]

God bless Scotland and Ireland I train to this song

[@lukaskucera9043]

Pappenheim40 the Wolfe tones did a great verson

[@glenmiles6279]

Love and peace and freedom to you lovely Irish folk,I’m English,but love you people. 🇮🇪

[@mitchellshaw7739]

Glory to Ireland, from an American Irish 🇮🇪❤️

[@bobhill3941]

Beautiful song, I love the harmonies and some of the best banjo playing I've ever heard.

[@tokra2222]

I don't know why this tune reminds me of the Firefly theme

[@bobhill3941]

@@tokra2222 The tune is probably similar, I've had the same thing, where music from one song will remind me of another.

[@Dt0x75]

My daughter got jumped at school then the girl tried to come to our home and fight her after school... That girl and her mother learned very fast how the Irish defend our family!

[@lamalama9717]

The Brits would never have won if the Irish had sent the colleens into the front of every battle. My mum Eileen and Aunty Kathleen would scare the hell out of anyone if somebody crossed our family!

[@international-F3000]

I am a Japanese person who is not good at English.I'm using a translation app to write this sentence.I know this song is not peaceful, but even if I don't understand the lyrics, I can still see that this song is very cool and wonderful. I listen to this song every day.

[@ThejollyFrenchman]

Politics aside, this is an insanely catchy melody. I've been whistling this for days.

[@Emanon389]

I know right ?!

[@no-uy1kk]

Same

[@liamcluett6203]

I am 100% a loyalist, great song though

[@odonnchada9994]

Hail Glorious Roman Catholic Saints And Martyrs Of Éireann.☘✝️🇮🇪🇻🇦🕊✊🏻

[@bobhill3941]

I love it, the harmonies and banjo playing.

[@josiahdublin7816]

Me: I promise I won't get all political. 7 pints later: ^^

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

Only 7? Hell laddie, I need at least 10 before I start singing lol.

[@theira9663]

I don't need any

[@I_am_Diogenes]

An Irishman who isnt political ? Is there such a thing ? :)

[@ok-sz7im]

All I need is a wee sip a water

[@christinamiller3363]

Your wife, your girlfriend, grabbing u by the hair....off the bar stool... screaming 4 fuck sake! Let it go!......lol!

[@viktorsubic2139]

Mad respect to Irish warrior spirit and lots of love to our Irish brothers from Croatia

[@greenquoxthepurple6231]

i see a theme here. Sorry if im rude but is there a reason this song is so admired in croatia?

[@djovaknokovic5013]

@@greenquoxthepurple6231 yes, uncles think they have something in common with Irishmen ( besides catholicism), so they are comparing Irish rebbels and croatian separatists/terrorists-neo ustaše.

[@clambert608]

@@djovaknokovic5013 nah the Irish were not Nazis and the Irish actually have culture.

[@jackfrost1866]

Ustashe Croatia! I grew up with croatian boys in australia, my football club is melbourne croatia

[@nickrad6966]

@@jackfrost1866 No one cares.

[@martinalbarez1917]

Un abrazó a los hermanos irish ..desde Argentina

[@davehammond743]

In 1986, I was in Glasgow, my parents home town, I had travelled from Australia; and I was in a pub, standing having a drink, & spoke a little bit to an old Irish barfly, he must have gathered that I wasn't Scottish, he said to me (quietly & privately): "The problem with the Scots is that they only sing about their freedom."" And on the telly was an international football game; Scotland Vs. Republic of Ireland. 0 - 0, with some of THE best goalkeeping at both ends you will have ever seen (Patrick Bonner & James Leighton)

[@genericwhitemale6089]

Dave Hammond the Irish sent men to fight against the Scottish rebellion for the English , not sure what your on about .

[@johnjames5587]

haven't got our full freedom yet tho its coming i want irish unity and irexit so were a truely independent 32 county nation

[@JeremyBryce-r5x]

@@genericwhitemale6089 Huh? In what century? In what uprising? And it wasn't Dave Hammond making the comment, it was a total stranger who's name he didn't even know. So why don't you STFU wanker & troll somewhere else

[@rembetologostsitsanologos1132]

I love this song, I know it by heart. Greetings from Greece ✊

[@calebwest661]

Whether the IRA still exists today or not doesn't matter. Just enjoy the music my brothers and sisters since this is one of the best versions of the song.

[@ComradeGrimmGames]

Yeah, it is the best version, but the song means something. I always see these comments about how it doesn't matter what that meaning is, just enjoy the song. But it's wrong, because these songs are cries for a nation's liberation. They are songs of revolution, they are inherently political. When you sing along, when you listen, you're singing and hearing the Irish fight for liberation- still continuing today, even if its been stifled.

[@arkonez6730]

Sean Cook Exactly.

[@Sammakko7]

the song is nice, but the IRA failed in everything. The British Empire lives on.

[@themorebike880]

@@Sammakko7 look at a map mate..

[@Sammakko7]

The Morebike yeah, look at it. The commonwealth is still over half of the world. Gibraltar, Falklands still in direct British control.

[@Wadiyatalkinabeet_]

I’m American of Scot/Irish ancestry (bite me haters), and I hope to visit the emerald aisle one day. It would be my dream vacation. Especially seeing Galway County, where my family is from. God bless Ireland and the Irish! Erin Go Bragh! 🇮🇪

[@traceywoolston7924]

I love this, and i love its still alowed . as a scot im always happy to hear old rebellion songs, not because i hate the engliish but because i love the fire and spirit that the celtic races have always had. and i love the pride that resonates. yes atrocities were done on both sides....but i have always stood by that history CANNOT be changed, it must be remmeberd so we can learn from it.,

[@thatssofetch3481]

History cannot be changed, but Britain is still occupying Ireland.

[@vigokies]

Who's listening after the national parties got majority of seats in Northern Ireland? 🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@Lister81g]

Well done Northern Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@marcelop7721]

Care to explain mate?

[@cartermiller853]

Marcelo H 26+6=1

[@huckthatdish]

Marcelo H there are two main groupings of political parties in Northern Ireland, which is currently part of the UK. Nationalists who want a united Ireland free from English oppression. And unionists who enjoy being under the boot of the crown instead of being part of a proud republic. Nationalists parties just own a majority there and it could be a sign of a demand for independence brewing.

[@clchronic6983]

Sing up the RA boys. Proud of yas'

[@antonella6317]

I'm Italian, I love this song: It's so powerful. Now I want to know everything about your history and your country

[@tristanvander-molen6030]

I’m not full British, but I love Irish so much music is always amazing. Love this song lots too.

[@nicksmith4794]

I remember one of the old men describing the Irish hatred towards The Brits thus: “The British don’t remember what the Irish can’t forget” Wise words judging from the posts on here.

[@Gommerell]

“The British don’t remember what the Irish can’t forget” So it benefited both sides then .

[@lurk7967]

@@Gommerell Are you referring to the Colonization of Ireland or fighting for its freedom? The colony benefited the British ofc and regarding the independence war I think this quote sums it up form the RIC POV it was not coincidental that resignations among the Black-and-Tans increased along with the tedium of life under siege, violence and casualties. Douglas Duff probably summed up the view of the men who resigned and went home pretty well: ‘Remember, we were mercenary soldiers fighting for our pay, not patriots willing and anxious to die for our country . . . Our job was to earn our pay by suppressing armed rebellion, not to die in some foolish . . . “forlorn hope”

[@Gommerell]

@@lurk7967 Thanks for anecdote from a Black and Tan, I can imagine it would have been bewildering after years in France and then contending with Ireland aflame. What I mean by the quote suiting both sides is # It suits the British to forget about their trespasses as its hard to justify the litany of inept decisions they made in the treatment on Ireland, not least the years from 1916 on. Though I hope context is taken with the bloody back drop of the First World War. The Irish cant forget on the other hand for the reason it must draw some benefit to them. Though I don't think mournfully remembering the past is healthy , though if its used to galvanize and motivate it will be useful.

[@c.norbertneumann4986]

The Good Friday Agreement should help to overcome the old enmity. Today there is no visible border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland any more. Maybe a referendum will be held, and Northern Ireland will voluntarily join the Republic of Ireland.

[@أحمدخلف-ش1ز]

Arabs don't forget either, i don't blame the Brits for the ongoing colonizing of the middle-east because if we ever get free there will be hell to pay (hello N Ireland Anglo Saxon), always found it cute when they say Iran is the greatest threat.

[@martinalbarez1917]

Mi gran admiración. Y respeto a mis hermanos irish.. Un abrazo de Argentina!

[@Ryan-tq7oi]

I'm actually from the town admiral William Brown was from - Foxford in the west of Ireland.

[@carlreddinger9707]

Gracias Hermano one day Northern Ireland and La Islas Malvinas will both be free viva Argentina amigos por siempre too bad you guys didn’t have more Exocet missles and then they’d have all gone to the bottom

[@sevans606]

@@carlreddinger9707 will it fuck your beyond deluded

[@Regular_Decorated_Emergency]

I love the Wolfe Tones version but I also like the Irish Descendants version and listen to both a lot. A truly empowering anthem of rebellion and the fight for independence.

[@774CISCO]

Love always from the sunburnt Convicts from Australia.

[@lemorab1]

No one can top the Scots and Irish when it comes to rousing, anti-imperialist rebel songs! When I was watching Ken Burns' series on the Vietnam War, this song was playing in the back of my mind, especially the line "so get out of here and take your bloody army!" Thank you so much for posting this.

[@benitomussolini7382]

You know Scots are British and many of the black and tans were Scottish

[@lemorab1]

Yes, I'm aware that reality is more complicated than can be heard in the lyrics of a song. I know that "British" refers to all the British Isles, and possibly what remains of the British Commonwealth around the world, but for me, an American, I unconsciously consider "British" to be synonymous with "English." You may be more familiar with the history of the actual Black and Tans than I am.

[@benitomussolini7382]

lemorab1 I know but the British are the English,Scots and Welsh

[@raleraka4423]

the only relevant question is - are Irish happier, better off, without London or with London? Compare India and Pakistan....India is more similar to Ireland regarding problems with British. Yet Pakistani have a more normal country without crime,rapes, incidents. So, Ireland got its independnece, and like was it Connoly, stated ""instead of crown we will put harphe and things will remain the same"". How many factories does the Ireland have? Im not taking sides, just trying to figure out what is going on. Yes, London made a genocide in 1850s. Yes, kanzlagers are invented by the British for the Dutch. Yes, London created another famine in Punjabi in 1941...But is Ireland better off without London? We will never know . Compare FaulklandIslands and Argentina...

[@AussieFanXCIV]

The VC are the ones who hid like cowards, pretending to be peasant farmers by day, terrorizing hamlets by extorting villages into handing over their rice harvest as “revolutionary taxes”, planting booby traps, and planning ambushes at night. I lived in a neighborhood that was mostly made up of Viet and Lao immigrants, a few friends of mine had dad’s that were child soldiers forced to protect their hamlets against communist raids or to join the communist Guerillas themselves. My own grandfather (US Vet) feels immense guilt and anger over his belief that America failed and betrayed to protect the Viet, Khmer, and Hmong people. Vietnam was nothing like the British occupation and suppression of the Irish people.

[@doge4818]

Played this in my car and it blew up...

[@MarvinT0606]

hope you're doing ok

[@gregorydoyle5005]

😂🤣😂🤣🍀

[@danielbaer2319]

Was it an English car by the way......??

[@kawapilot]

@@danielbaer2319 LOL....Alba wants the same...............just ask..

[@Random-xt8cq]

I’m dieing lmao

[@Theredcarolinian]

I'm Proud to be Part Irish! 🇮🇪🍀🇮🇪

[@dzoi1554]

greetings from croatia. Love Irland❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@odetodeodorant2996]

Irish/Iranian American here supporting my fellow Irish brothers and sisters across the sea. May Ireland one day be truly free.

[@RickJaeger]

Ireland *IS* free.

[@96alexandermorgan]

Ode todeodorant 56%

[@migamaos3953]

Ode todeodorant “Irish”

[@migamaos3953]

fuck off 56%er

[@darthhoovy8332]

Ricky Jaeger Not Northern Ireland though

[@mayabelle7558]

i’m fully indian and this song makes me feel so patriotic for ireland

[@irlmusic8001]

@@alankilen6646 the indo in Indo-European doesn't refer to India I don't think. Indo is like saying Proto in this context

[@lifeofabronovich7792]

Lol, probably cause India and Ireland share the same sentiment towards the Brits

[@matusmotlo3854]

@@alankilen6646 Nope, the Indo-Europeans came from the Pontic steppe of Southern Ukraine & Russia. There's exactly zero evidence they came from India, in fact, India was one of the last areas to be colonized by them.

[@dagges]

Couldn't even spell it 😂

[@lifeofabronovich7792]

@@irlmusic8001 Yeah, the term Indo-European simply refers to the fact that the languages are spoken across an area spanning from India to Europe (at least historically, now they're spoken all over the world due to colonialism) and has nothing to do with the exact origin of the language. The origin of the language family was, like you said, most likely in Southern Russia along the Caspian steppe.

[@norbertbrigan7299]

Respect for Ireland from Hungary!

[@bricelarie6527]

Must be some epic night down there folks !!! Dare, care, ride safe, clean, have fun ... From France with .

[@matthewdonoghue321]

Holy Mary that is a powerful rendition of a classic. Well done.

[@jodyfields9089]

This makes me proud of the Irish. Y'all are beautiful and courageous in your defiance... Keep your nation for your decendants!

[@tatianalyulkin410]

They are the endless source of courage and inspiration for us- the Ukrainian Antifa Rebs.

[@batrachian149]

@@tatianalyulkin410 cringe Putin bot

[@randomyankee8923]

​@batrachian149 there are ukrainian anarchists fighting against Russia alongside the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis

[@duckface81]

@@batrachian149 antifa = putin bot?

[@Stewiehleba]

I am Bulgarian. We also have a history with occupiers, and even if our styles of revolutionary songs sound quite different, I can't but relate when I listen to Irish music.

[@joekavanagh8997]

Good because Bulgaria is one of the countries on my "I have to go to ",list.!!

[@philipopruesse4259]

Bulgaria has the highest number of winners per capita in international mathematics contests in the world. A truly underrated people. Salute from Germany!

[@joekavanagh8997]

I am Irish and have a small business in NY City and have met people from all over the world.The Bulgarians I have met have always been sociable ,good conversationalists and curious about the world. I've been all over the United States ,Canada and Western Europe .When this Covid retreats I am going to Eastern Europe,Poland,Czech Rep.,Romania Greece ,Russia and Bulgaria I look forward to this and eating and drinking near the Black Sea.

[@jansobieski8367]

Bulgaria also was occupiers for byzantine empire. Bulgaria was occupiers for greek and muslims(turks pomaks) in balkan wars. You even tried take to istanbul. There was not bulgarians in istanbul in FBW.

[@alqamenesh7433]

@jan sobieski It's called payback, when you occupy, mistreat and abuse a people, they will give you your due.

[@ausi14u]

Reminds me of my Nan from Belfast as I grew up in Australia. Set the homeland free. Irish republic for whole Ireland.

[@azzaxtor9426]

Greetings from Serbia to brave Irish people! 🇷🇸🇮🇪

[@manfredjager8349]

As I listen to this, I can just feel years of Irish hatred towards the Brits coursing through my veins.

[@kamenridernephilim]

At least the they had enough sense to get away the European Union bastards.

[@LegendarySpaceRipper]

If everyone hates the brits then they should remove themselves from Britain and go back to their great country that they never seem to be in. All these immigrants from great countries trying to get jobs in Britain. Strange how they can not get jobs in their own great countries.

[@ellenphilomena4535]

@@LegendarySpaceRipper it is called Colonialism. Study a little bit about the effects of it....or 800 years of it, as per in Ireland.

[@ellenphilomena4535]

@@LegendarySpaceRipper you are replying that to a an irish song. The irish were invaded, they never wanted to be in Britain. Go to another page.

[@jonathanshaw4471]

Aegors shut up bitch

[@the13th30]

"Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away, From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra."

[@jrom6263]

The 13th Funny how they didn't run away but made you sign a treaty in which you had to acknowledge the crown.

[@TheMintMan117]

Funny how that isn't stopping the IRA from operating.

[@RadicalCaveman]

The treaty also made the Black and Tans, along with other British forces, exit Ireland, which later reneged on acknowledging the crown with no serious repercussions.

[@jamescouillard8068]

Hudson Falcons does a great punk version of this song

[@Britannia2003]

Riley Mullins fuck off Northern Ireland is loyal to the crown and the U.K. Get your facts right

[@darkpharaon1230]

Love and support from my catholic brorhers 🇲🇽✝️🤝✝️🇮🇪

[@NounOzlos]

This is basically the best thing ever.

[@DaveRandallTube]

I'm Canadian. Played this at a pub on St. Paddy's this year. Got an earful from an Irishman - I assume protestant - for playing "republican" music on St. Paddy's. He said he grew up in Northern Ireland in the 60's and 70's and does not have fond memories of those times. Out of respect for his passion on the matter, I didn't play any other rebel songs. I honestly didn't think anyone here in Canada - particularly on St. Paddy's with all that Guinness and Jameson in them - would even appreciate what the song was about. Goes to show, someone is always listening

[@cpfdkolich]

+Miguel Kobal damn redcoat

[@mpol701]

Just tell him your not Irish your British

[@autisticgamer4949]

David Randall Bastard Traitor. The Irish invaded us in 1866 and killed innocent farmers who were only attempting to stop from raping their daughters; not to mention they had Thomas Mcgee, an Irish unionist and Father of Confederation, killed for his views. Our country of Canada was founded om the idea of opposing the Irish, you do our country a disservice by siding with these Terrorist fucks.

[@neildoherty9384]

Yea those rotting in Maze prison or dying on hunger strikes don't have fond memories either. We must honor those that fight and dye for freedom. Many want to blame the victim of Brittins oppression. But the world knows better. If he don't want to hear it thats his problem, if I was playing it I would have played another rebel song. Don't blame the victims for fighting back. Free Ireland!

[@ThHuSu]

David Randall Who guys a shit what a prot says? Should have beat his ass just for being from Northern Ireland

[@supegoguetassj400]

Love from Mexico 🇲🇽🤝🇮🇪

[@MissChloeMay24]

I'm Welsh and i love this, it's on repeat

[@baileywooof493]

My bloodline is primarily Irish (I live in Australia) and I studied the Irish Republicanism and it made me appreciate my heritage more

[@schr4nztech]

I'm not even Irish but I can feel the lyrics.

[@watchhowimdoingthis]

whats your opinion on muslims

[@herrickmaster77]

Croatia is the greatest ever !!

[@roxanasafari1175]

@@herrickmaster77 absolutely

[@deadlygamer3691]

So sud we talk about the 🐘 in the room looks at Kosovo

[@sl_721]

Thanks brat 🇮🇪🤝🇷🇸

[@ocelotrevs]

I heard this song on Irish Twitter and it's pretty badass.

[@funeralflxwers]

wicked tune on the bodhrán! Much love from Newfoundland ;)