Soldiers of '22 - Irish Rebel Song (Lyrics)

"Soldiers of '22" is an Irish Rebel song about the gallant men who, when the British-backed Free State government commenced the assault against the Anti-Treatyite Forces, did not fear death and proudly took up arms again to defend their Republic.
Footage used from:
- 'Michael Collins'
- British Pathé

[@Bs_Assorted_Stuff]

The Sequel to Foggy Dew

[@luisfilipe2023]

Wouldn’t that be rifles of the ira

[@shorthistory1912]

It’s both I think

[@shorthistory1912]

It’s very similar at least

[@George-gn9sf]

I'm pretty sure that's the rifles of the IRA

[@lil_spooky4435]

Hey all of its good okay😂 im american with irish roots my family has roots of kicking britsh ass

[@theconfederacyofindependen7268]

R.I.P Cathal Brugha 1874-1922 Liam Lynch 1892-1923 Dinny Lacey 1889-1923 Neil Boyle 1898-1923 And God rest Patrick Quinn 1899-1974

[@rorymoore9269]

May Erin's sons rest well

[@user-lt5zf4xh7d]

Glorious martyrs

[@bibimir]

Today is perfect song to listen to this song! Great one!

[@hailihamza5487]

true

[@William02319]

Why’s that?

[@jw5931]

@@William02319 That incestuous German bitch rotting on the throne of pedophiles and murderers finally died.

[@TheSnailfeeder]

once, twice, and thrice IRA songs have entered my playlist, now it is four.

[@SGAman123_]

The word you're looking for is quadrice

[@Samuel42069]

nah he already seen fifth, sixth, seventh etc​@@SGAman123_

[@sahahorria]

Eternal peace and glory to all the noble Irishmen who gave it all for the freedom of their native land. God bless their precious souls.

[@1916jamesconnolly]

Great song this. "Take it down from the Mast Irish Traitors" another great song about the brave Volunteers who carried on the fight for a total free Ireland with no allegiance to British Crown. Cathal Brugha, Liam Lynch, Rory O'connor rest in peace, Ireland salutes you.

[@Fortunateenough1995]

Another brilliant but very unheard of song, You should have a listen to Barrys Column, not much covers of it but the covers that exist are good

[@Odysseus753BC]

Cool, Jesus supports a free United Ireland

[@freebeerfordworkers]

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[@danbreen6946]

@@napoleon96420 Lighten up mo chara 😂

[@Airgialla32]

I have found a new favourite to add to the collection.

[@elchipplushproductions9340]

it has the same temp/beat as the foggy dew

[@danbreen6946]

You're Joking

[@danbreen6946]

@@napoleon96420 I was being sarcastic,of course it's the music from the great foggy dew

[@Bs_Assorted_Stuff]

Erin go Bragh, Ireland Forever 🇮🇪

[@YourNeighborhoodJackass1917]

The sequel we didn’t know we needed.

[@Eire1916.]

Tiocfaidh ár lá, Éire go Bragh 🇮🇪☘️

[@jamesgrewar461]

Thig ar la 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Berserker3624]

@@jamesgrewar461the English appears when you translate, our time is linked this division crap ain’t for me..

[@Berserker3624]

@@jamesgrewar461I ain’t no Scot politicians play thing, you shouldn’t be either

[@radplung]

A beautiful song with a nice message

[@Bromine35br]

first time ive seen a song with the same melody as foggy dew. also, could you please tell us who the artist of the songs you post are?

[@IrishMarxist]

Excellent suggestion! The artist of this song is one of my favourite rebel singers: Declan Hunt.

[@Bromine35br]

@@IrishMarxist btw, who is the singer for 3rd west cork brigade? spotify mysteriously says “unknown”

[@IrishMarxist]

@@Bromine35br It's also Declan Hunt

[@Bromine35br]

@@IrishMarxist ah, thanks! thought it was mark's men

[@se7enei8htnin97]

@@Bromine35br that’s my favorite Irish song too! 🇮🇪

[@Mitchell_WerBell_III]

Yo, props to the guy who went back to record this.

[@robertklink3021]

Another post, another banger

[@niall6016]

It's similar to the Foggy Dew

[@kamikazekiller112]

May I ask where you got the Vintage footage used in the video?

[@robertmcnamara1642]

It’s from the film Micheal Collins

[@robertmcnamara1642]

The rest is British Pathe footage

[@2ndcomingofFritz]

It’s in the description

[@MrHelterskalter]

Irish Marxist, I'm glad that you're an Irishman who read their history and recognize the man who Connolly was. Love from Boston!

[@sl_721]

Marxism isn’t something to be celebrated

[@MrHelterskalter]

@@sl_721 lol

[@robz1768]

fun fact: I have an uncle from Dublin and his great grandad was James Conolly

[@helenmurphy3143]

a classic

[@AmericanRebel.Crusader]

Happy saint Patrick’s day my fellow Irish men and women. God bless and remember never surrender

[@mrsderulo1]

We love you Irish warriors ❤️

[@albisharku6182]

Eternal glory to Ireland Greetings from an Albanian catholic 🇦🇱, part of Nation who knows better your struggle for being independent and United as we have gone the same path in history in dividing our nation by the great powers

[@tenthclassgaming]

I love Albania, they fought against Catholicism's greatest enemy, and retained the faith for hundreds of years.

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@tenthclassgaming 10% of Albania are Catholic.

[@WjfhdhShshshsh]

​@@hermanngoulhorn581 And Albania sent guns to the uvf against irish during the troubles

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@WjfhdhShshshsh that's weird, I can see your response to my comment, but can't see my own!

[@koloraz1170]

You are Back! I loved your Rifles of the IRA video!

[@danirus7192]

Great people , great country , great Song .

[@UsTheMusicTVOfficial]

Powerful song. Down with the enemy, and Long Live Ireland!!!

[@riceguynow6910]

What movie is the start of the video with the celtic warriors from?

[@geraldwilson681]

Respect from this Irish American to the memory of these Irish warriors who stood up to England's tyranny in Ireland. You will never be forgotten.🇮🇪🇺🇸

[@lucareviews9760]

Plastic paddy

[@geraldwilson681]

Oops meant 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪. Our flags are the same only reverse.

[@lucareviews9760]

@@geraldwilson681 that’s the Ivory Coast

[@geraldwilson681]

@@lucareviews9760 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@lucareviews9760]

@@geraldwilson681 it took you two days to find the Irish flag mate. I’m Irish your not you are an Anglo American as Wilson is the most British name in human history Also your ancestors probably put No blacks No Irish No dogs Signs in the street so stfu mate

[@Tommys_wobbly-life]

❤ makes me so sad-- I thought I knew alot about it all and more just comes and dampens my heart ❤ too sad x 💔 all that and still their not free

[@dragonfilms1959]

This sounds like the song “The Foggy Dew”

[@tomryan4501]

32 county republic lads!

[@goldbaron357]

May the Irish at last have their unification.

[@irishjoker3353]

God bless them all

[@NathanSaor1798]

Foggy dew type 2

[@trentwolfgram9571]

Electric boogaloo?

[@danbreen6946]

@@napoleon96420 You're Joking , Sorry mo chara it's just that I like a laugh 😂

[@user-lt5zf4xh7d]

Oof what a banger this is.

[@user-fg3ei7pp4v]

The flag that Joe McKelvey loved, is good enough for me.

[@admiralYamamoto_]

FREE NORTHERN IRELAND

[@micoolkidfilms3270]

ULAIDH ÍS ÉIRNN ULSTER IS IRELAND

[@Hungrycats1]

No, british isles are british all we need is less brother wars and we need more irish, scotish and Welsh representation in our government

[@admiralYamamoto_]

@@Hungrycats1 IRELAND IS IRISH NOT BRITISH

[@Hungrycats1]

@@admiralYamamoto_ No, the island of ireland is in the British isles the British isles should be united

[@admiralYamamoto_]

@@Hungrycats1 the Irish don’t want to be united with the British

[@sebibeer]

❤️

[@aarontooth]

Damn

[@sweunlicht8722]

I love Irish culture and united ireland from germany

[@patrickcullinane7461]

Fantastic God Bless The Soldiers of 22 Onwards and Upwards Irish Reunification Peacefully and Democratically 🙏🤞s

[@irishledden4924]

Or what ever way it takes!

[@patrickcullinane7461]

@@irishledden4924 the War is Over And Is Not Coming Back Irish Reunification Is Not Going Away Peacefully Democratically

[@user-ky6qk5co3u]

Nice tune. Greetings from 🇩🇪

[@gendo1123]

Please don't be as neshnolist as us as I don't think the world is ready for the return of the third reich but we shall expect your saport in the fite against the brits

[@AS_Stopmotions]

Around 0:00 what movie is this?

[@xrstufty8651]

Glory O to the bold fenian men

[@REZA-tl5kr]

the foggy dew but 22

[@AnthonyOToole]

what a great story what a great ending

[@patriot1525]

what movie/show was the free state executions from?

[@sardinianleftist]

Man this is fire Sardinian redhead here sending solidarity to the Irish struggle The Sardinian Struggle for independence will be heard soon as well against the fascist oppressors Long live freedom!

[@doliwaq]

What is a name of movie with medieval irish soldiers?

[@russell_O.S.]

Are those uillean pipes being played?

[@TruekingoftheLeinstermen]

Anyone know the picture at 11 seconds

[@lil_spooky4435]

One time for a country who just wants to be united🇮🇪

[@AdrianLaws-ut1th]

My father's side has been fighting for northern Ireland independance from the britanian huns. And we helped Ireland gain there independance from the britts. However we are still needing our own nation or back with Ireland. Tiacfadlah 'Al' la!. In a peaceful not rape way back like thr leadership from 1915 and 80s. The non molestation shit like northern Ireland has caused and they should be exacuted without prejudice. However northern Ireland saved Ireland and no one seems to speak Irish in both I'm American but my father side has been fighting for northern Ireland independance since 1915 and he was murdered so now I bore the fight. And I speak Irish like we should.

[@internetual7350]

Má labhraíonn tú Gaelainn beidh fíos agat tá sé "tiocfaidh ár lá" níor "tiacfadlah 'al' la".

[@inhyechoi3651]

My aunt used to live in Ireland 😊

[@lukasmalaise367]

The north will return again.

[@ashtonjohnson-zc3ox]

even through im british i love this song LONG LIVE IRELAND

[@aymanhassan3298]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉

[@rafaelkesic]

The Foggy Dew?

[@zacharieelfali3401]

Calling the Free State "British-backed" when the Anglos had Michael Collins assassinated is a bit weird. The treaty was the less worst alternative, and Collins was already supplying the IRA in the North. Dev and Fianna Fail abandoned them.

[@Liam-zg2ip]

^^^^ I agree. This channel and this song are great, but I do find it consistently ignorant to see so many people blindly take up arms and hold grunge towards their Irish brothers, who they fought with so long for freedom. (Both treaty and anti-treaty forces). It's truly unbelievable to me that the Irish Civil War happened. It disgusts me that the brave men who fought so dearly for their land would so quickly demonise each other. A tragedy indeed, and may Michael Collins, and men from both sides of the treaty, rest well.

[@globe0147]

I’m sorry, I just can’t take anyone seriously who actually believes in the Conspiracy theory that Collins was killed by a British agent. He died in County Cork, Aug 22 1922 on a road side. Killed by Anti-Treaty forces.

[@zacharieelfali3401]

@@globe0147 He was shot by Denis O'Neill, a great sniper and former RIC member who had joined the British Army during WW1 and who sided with the anti-treaty forces, and who was "accidentally" present in Béal na mBlath. This sounds like ass to me. Churchill and Loyd George knew Collins was supplying the IRA in Ulster. Dev may not have had an active part in it, but the remorse he showed later in his life shows, to me, that he definitely knew something was up.

[@globe0147]

@@zacharieelfali3401 this needs some unpacking, but I don’t think Dev Ordered Collins death either. I just simply think that it happened due conditions on the battlefield at that moment. Collins fended off attempts on his life before, so to say that the Anti-Treaty forces, wether or not they came from higher up in the command or not, were after him. Anti-Treaty forces deliberately ambushed Collins party. What other target could there be other than Collins? Many Prominent figures on both sides of the civil had previous training or Service with the British Army. Remember the Irish volunteer split in 1914? The vast majority became the National Volunteers, who were Irish nationalists but served in the BA in ww1. Only a minority stayed behind and Launched the Easter rising. One of Collins’ Party on that day was former British Army, Emmet Dalton. O’Neill being in the RIC and British Army isn’t very unique. He was not on the British Side during the war for Independence and was Firmly Anti-Treaty by the time or the civil war. Anyone claiming to know a whole lot more about the guy is false, we barely know anything about Denis, only what I’ve laid out here, and him being “a great sniper” It’s an Anti-Treaty, “Republican Legitimatist” cope that they killed one of Ireland’s mos beloved and respected Leaders. And they try anything to deflect the blame. But what do I know?

[@micoolkidfilms3270]

Ikr we’ll get the 6 Co of ulster back wether it be through peace or violence Ulster is Ireland 🇮🇪

[@christopheraliaga-kelly6254]

George Bernard Shaw, born and bred in Dublin once wrote:"If you stick an Irishman on a spit, you can ALWAYS find another Irishman to turn him!" The Civil War split my da's family and the bitter arguments forced him to emigrate.

[@Dublinireland5]

I've just wanted to add to my message that my self and and my Close special friend Kevin mulligan we would have never ever taken up arms against Ireland under any circumstances we was born in England but we do not agree with what England have done to Ireland myself and Kevin mulligan was just born in England we had no say in the matter we was just born here our love for Ireland and our love for the Irish people comes first over and above for this country England that we could never take up Arms for the past Queen or the new king chiles Ireland comes first... And always will do as you could see my friend surname is mulligan the family came from the south of Ireland some years ago nobody would be more happy then us to see a free and independent Ireland and England to come back home from the north of Ireland and never to return again to your country I would not mix in or talk to anybody in England if they told me that they had been to Northern Ireland

[@Tony-Diga]

I have 1 big dream : Scotland Independent and Ireland United, same as Romania and Moldova !

[@nickcorne6407]

this reminds me of foggy dew

[@PartyComrade]

The Queen died after this was uploaded

[@Ghuridnasrani]

@@odonnchada9994 No there is no queen of Ireland, especially that Catholic idol you call Mary, repent and seek the Lord Jesus Christ. Mary does not hear your prayers, she is a sinner who has died many years ago. But her son Jesus Christ is alive and living in the heavenly Kingdom. Catholicism is Babylon, and Ireland needs to repent, May the Father have mercy upon the Celts of Hibernia.

[@arnavdubey8537]

This song tells the true face of brits

[@itspandawg4185]

everytime i pause this video i feel like i disrespected the flow

[@hamzahilmi7440]

sounds alot like "the foggy dew"

[@moyramkhandakar6676]

Soldiers of 55

[@greenpaliden6328]

26+6=1 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@2ndcomingofFritz]

Sounds very familiar

[@deadstar9507]

God save irelan 🇵🇭❤️🇮🇪

[@truenorthgames]

That's Rory O Connor he Led a unit of Irish Provos during Easter Rising 🇮🇪 hahaha my names conner 🇮🇪

[@Jan-Schmeer]

Honor & Glory to all martyrs from Ireland to Palestine. Honor & Glory to the martyrs from 1922-2022. 🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪

[@shorthistory1912]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸✊🇵🇸✊

[@tenthclassgaming]

Free the Crusader State for legal reasons i must say this is a joke

[@Jan-Schmeer]

@@tenthclassgaming Even crusaders called the holy land Palestine.

[@OshinAttari]

🇮🇷🤝🇮🇪 We Have Same Story With Same Enemy!!!! We Are Waiting To Take Revenge of 1917 and Iranian Genocide!!!! Long Live United Ireland!!!

[@treeismyusernamewhyjustwhy]

What about russia and turkey? they also contributed

[@OshinAttari]

@@treeismyusernamewhyjustwhy We Don't Like Turkey and Russia It's Our Government that Is Ally of Russia

[@johndavies1090]

Why is it that the 'Loyallists' songs are nowhere near as rousing or spirited as the Republicans? I'd not heard this one before, but by hookey, it's a good one!

[@TheWildmanden]

I actually studied this. Part of it is probably down to your own sympathies, but if you are the type to listen to this particular genre of music, it will become quite apparent that folk music is very much a Republican genre. Not to say that Loyalist don't play any of it, but in Ireland folk music is closely tied to nationalism (as it is most places I'd reckon). And if you have a stronger folk tradition, your music just tend to be better, because there's more of it and collectively the musicians have more experience

[@deltac222]

They have no culture 🤣

[@uptheuvf1804]

(Being unbiased here) rebel songs sound less like a Christmas song than ours

[@micoolkidfilms3270]

Loyalist sings sound like cheap Christmas songs 😂

[@danielakili6705]

Glory belongs to Heroes 🇦🇱🤝🇮🇪

[@justinianthegreatandnerd6377]

Never Forget the genocide in Kosovo.

[@SrboljubPavlovic]

In honor of around 5,000 fallen Irish warriors who fought side by side with the Serbs against the Bulgarians, near Dojran there is still a Celtic Cross on which it is written: "In memory of those from the Tenth Irish Division who gave their lives in the defense of Serbia". The 10th Irish division with 8,000 fighters stopped the entire Bulgarian army of 99,497 soldiers at the Serbian border for a few days. When the time comes, the Serbians will be with the Irish brothers until the end. Serbia never forgets kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3uYZKGiidGUiNU

[@jasonpeterreardon9710]

And now Ireland is under a new tyrannical force.Its own government .

[@rintarokaito2878]

Why this song sounds the same as "foggy dew"?

[@karbidson7616]

100 Years - The Faithful Few

[@ObsidianCrocodile]

🇮🇪 ❤️ from Sinead O’callaghan

[@KaminoNodo]

Michael Collins movie scenes >>>>>

[@chickeninyeezes3759]

your stupid and always will be

[@chickeninyeezes3759]

I almost feel sorry for you

[@aguy6771]

Is there any good songs that relate specifically to the Free state side?

[@Bobbyr_2527]

Oddly the song sounds almost exactly like the other Ira song The Foggy Dew

[@KnightOMurk]

It's the same tune but I like this version more

[@micoolkidfilms3270]

Most Irish songs on both sides have the same tune cause they all derive from ancient folk songs

[@danirus7192]

🇷🇺✌🏻🤙🏻🇮🇪.Níl Béal Feirste thuaidh, is poblacht na hÉireann í scartha ó Shasana, Glóir duit ón Rúis

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

We are still allies with Americans France Germany and will always be. Our problem with Brits is a civil problem between us.

[@danirus7192]

@@user-ze8yy8jg1f. yes, I understand this about the British, this is really correct, because it was she who dragged us Russians into the First World War and it was because of her that the Jewish Bolshevik yoke in our country

[@danirus7192]

@@user-ze8yy8jg1f..We are ordinary Russians, too, for ordinary Europeans, the authorities are doing all sorts of crap, and Ukraine did not exist until 1917, we have the Soviet Union created an enemy Ukraine, it’s a pity that America supported Bolshevism and the Jews

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@danirus7192 again we don’t care what your struggle is with Ukraine it’s none of our business Ye should have thought about this instead of threatening a nuke to Britain and Ireland like cavemen. STOP COMING YO OUR VIDEOS PRETENDING OUR STRUGGLE IS ANYTHING LIKE YE SCUM

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@danirus7192 Irish fought for napoleon 🇮🇪🇫🇷

[@tonyfa828]

Im irish and im struggling 😂

[@tonyfa828]

Well a little bit 😂😂

[@chickeninyeezes3759]

@@tonyfa828 with what

[@chickeninyeezes3759]

@@tonyfa828 are you from dublin

[@hjpc73]

i ran away lol

[@U20user10]

Vitun kommari

[@derekhake9823]

Same melody as foggy dew

[@sebby324]

🇮🇪

[@TheIrishvolunteer]

Our civil war was such a tragic story, so many misguided sons of Eire dying in an unnecessary fight.

[@chickeninyeezes3759]

I think the ancestors of the traitors and incompetent's gained power in those days

[@lukasroosli9192]

Ireland 1922 Ukraine 2022

[@axdde6428]

donetsk 2014 lugansk 2014 kharkov 2014 crimea 2014 ireland 1919

[@lukasroosli9192]

@Séan Mcgachy I didn't mean it that subtle. I draw a parallel because Ireland and the Ukraine both had to fight for their existence.. have to. The courage of the Ukrainians is in every respect comparable to the courage of the IRA and the opponents are both empires.

[@lukasroosli9192]

@Séan Mcgachy Another way of looking at it is that the pro-Russian separatists are trying to annex the Donbass like the unionists are keeping Northern Ireland in Britain.

[@toonatr356]

North Ireland❌ Ireland✅

[@dobrojutro8127]

Common enemy ULSTER IS IRELAND 🇷🇸❤️🇮🇪

[@georgesahmad1790]

Greetings from a Palestinian, beloved brothers. Just like you, we've had our fair share of traitors.

[@georgesahmad1790]

@Michael McDermott87 Among others, unfortunately. But not our Irish bros and sis.

[@Dublinireland5]

I am very sorry what Ireland have gone through and what has happened to it over the years the British government had no right in taking control of the north of your country I am also sorry that this country England sent a minimum of 25000 British soldiers to your country several years ago my heart goes out to every Irish soldier that lost their life by the British soldiers in Ireland I am truly sorry from Daniel hills and Kevin Mulligan

[@MarkSmith-lt3ug]

Free island of Ireland. Free Scotland. Free Croatian volunteer, Marko Francisković. Never give up

[@micoolkidfilms3270]

Herceg bosna je hrvatska 🇮🇪❤️🇭🇷

[@777SFINN777]

I love how an enslaved oppressed occupied country can get behind a movement like socialism or communism to try to help them when they'll just be handing the keys over to the biggest slave drivers their is.

[@WjfhdhShshshsh]

? Irish socialism is older than communism Irish socialism is national socialist which does not exist yet its like a mix between nazi Germany and Cuba Socialism is the rebel capitalist it's not from communism Our politics formed from oppression anti landlord anti corporate due to british corporate and landlord oppression James connelly wrote a good book on irish socialism in it he states " our politics must be invented here in Ireland we cannot take on politics from Russia or USA since our history is not the same our politics will be shaped around the views of a oppressed people "

[@keanulechat2510]

Pourquoi les Irlandais qui ont subi l'occupation anglaise, n'enseignent pas la langue irlandaise dans les écoles. Il serait tout à fait normal que l'irlandais redevienne la langue nationale de l'Irlande.

[@TNOfan4093]

L'irlandais est une matière obligatoire dans toutes les écoles publiques, et le concours des enseignants inclut un examen de maîtrise de la langue

[@keanulechat2510]

L'anglais est la langue la plus parlée dans le pays. Par rapport à celui du Royaume Uni , l'anglais parlé en Irlande a un accent différent et quelques mots et expressions. Mais l'irlandais, qui était majoritaire il y a quelques siècles, est encore courant dans certaines régions, dans l'ouest de l'ile.​@@TNOfan4093

[@keanulechat2510]

Lorsque des groupes importants de population ont subi la conversion linguistique au XIXe siècle, de nombreuses caractéristiques de la langue gaélique ont été transférées à l'anglais, ce qui a conduit à une maternalisation continue de l'anglais en Irlande.

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

They should have accepted the treaty! It was the only way the UK wasn't going to steamroll Ireland again for another 100 years!

[@alexharty995]

True but the did fight for a cause

[@WjfhdhShshshsh]

Uk went into recession after ww1 they were broke with a massive newly dead or disabled population So no not steam rolled you seem to forget the war for independence went on longer than ww1 uk would have bent and given all of ireland since they could never beat a insurgency after one of the most costly wars in history

[@chickeninyeezes3759]

England was in no position to do anything to Ireland they were negotiating debt restructuring and payments with the Americans after most of their debtors on continental Europe had defaulted the integrity of the imperial market was at stake so it would be unreasonable for them to start a genocide Ireland as they threatened, when the entire British empire was at stake and on top of that its how we got our current gang of goons who run the country for their personal gain in power. The Dail should have called Britain's bluff basically.