Michael Flatley's Celtic Tiger - A Nation Once Again

[odonnell1218]

Down the British! Do not surrender! Up the IRA!

[clearlogicify]

How embarrassing. What a fat drunk he's become. Still, you have to respect such blindness to his lameness.

[AnotherCuppaCoffee]

Given the conditions of the Irish so-called bailout (getting onerous loans, then adding taxes, to pay the loans of its privately owned banks to German, British and Dutch privately owned banks), the song should be "A colony once again." Colonies pay financial tribute to their foreign owners.

[TheKifferGirl]

amazing *-*

[hello12390529]

A Nation once again that has to be bailed out by Britain!

[WildDancer101]

this is a great song. they possibly sang this as a sign of victory over the redcoats and certainly brought happiness to everyone. awesome number

[Zeul28]

Gosh the song is so grandly patriotic ^_^ Amazing

[Taiwanlight]

There is, as far as I know, no eye-witness account that Cromwell ordered his soldiers to kill Irish. There is no eye-witness account that Hitler ordered the extermination of the Jews and others. The evidence can only be inferred from what happened. Are you inferring Oliver that Cromwell was too stupid to know what his soldiers were doing? Perhaps you have an eye-witness account that he ordered his soldiers not to harm non-combatants?

[lucas33881]

lucas33881@AKAIex44 Freiheit die ich meine! Flemish sympathies lie with the oppressed. Remembering eg the export of potatoes during the great famine. We are not ignorant. Above performance of 'A nation Once Again' touches my soul. And... we are also on our way to sing the same song!

[lucas33881]

Flemish sympathies lie with a united Ireland!

[AKAlex47]

@lucas33881 Did the dancing persuade you or just your own ignorant, naive romantic view?

[emilyhobhouse]

""foriegn sympathies lie with a united ireland"?

Really, who?""

Oliver he clearly means the vast majority of people who want the union broke up in the UK.

After all the polls clearly show that less than 25% want to keep northern Ireland. It costs us to much. We don't get anything in return.

[australianfastbowler]

If you wanna get into technicalities, how about the period when it acted as an autonomous kingdom with its own parliament before the act of union in 1801, similar to scottland? Besides, when referring to 'a nation once again', the loose affiliation of celtic tribes under a high king at Tara is a hell of a lot closer than any Ireland under British colonial rule. No other country in the world sides with you in this conflict, bar maybe hardline royalists and anti-catholics.

[australianfastbowler]

Actually, it was an 'autonomous kingdom'. That was the whole point of the british system, 'autonomous' kingdoms who shared the same monarch. You only asked afterall, when Ireland was united as a nation, not when it wasn't under British rule. And the conflict ended in 1994? On a large scale yes, but what about the recent shootings of british soldiers and members of the PSNI? And my last statement was a poor choice of words. I meant that most foriegn sympathies lie with a united ireland.

[Flipper79able]

FUCKOFF!!

[Keanetastico]

Erm Catholics who were 90% of the population werent allowed to participate in the government or even own a horse....

[emilyhobhouse]

A nation is a body of people who share a real or imagined common history, culture, language or ethnic origin.

Oliver you have a poor understanding of the word. The question you want to ask is when was ireland a sovereign political nation of 32 counties.

At the moment the 32 counties of ireland is a nation under the oxford english dictionary defintion. Unionists are clearly an ethic minority in the nation.

[xvivaxvanityx]

it always gives me the goose bumps...every single time.

[christiankittyluver]

me too! =D

[MrDart]

This is fantastic. HAIL TO IRELAND!

[teachill]

'Twas England scourged our Motherland,

'Twas England laid her low!

Rise up, o dead of Ireland!

And rouse her living men,

The chance will come to us at last

To win our own again,

To sweep the English enemy

From hill and glen and bay,

And in your name, O Holy Dead,

Our sacred debt to pay!

[Paulsixsmith]

Quote from oliver1649

"Until, they learn to move on from this, they will always be an international emotional charity case and emergent laughing stock." (irish people)

So Olly you can apply this generalization to every single irish person. I think it clear to see you hate. Quite sad really. yet you feel the need to continously comments on irish videos for the last two years.

LOL LOL

[Paulsixsmith]

As can be clearly seen below britian are guilty of their fare share of crimes. Of course olly's only response will be your anti-british or something like that. Then he will proceed to bitich on about Irishmen's crimes. lol. What a clown.

here are some quotes from him.

"I hear he has a soft spot for people with missing limbs." (about paul mccartney)

"Until, they learn to move on from this, they will always be an international emotional charity case and emergent laughing stock." (irish people)

[Paulsixsmith]

In June 1901, Liberal opposition party leader Campbell-Bannerman took up the assault and answered the rhetorical "When is a war not a war?" with "When it is carried on by methods of barbarism in South Africa," referring to those same camps and the policies that created them. The Hobhouse report caused uproar both domestically and in the international community.

Funny how you never mention this olly.

[Paulsixsmith]

A report after the war concluded that 27,927 Boers (of whom 24,074 [50% of the Boer child population] were children under 16) had died of starvation, disease and exposure in the concentration camps. In all, about one in four (25%) of the Boer inmates, mostly children, died.

[AnotherCuppaCoffee]

@Paulsixsmith In watching the news about the apartheid government in South Africa, my mother, very sadly, used to say, "The Boers are doing to the blacks what the British did to them." Then she'd go and say her Rosary.

[padskawa]

What did Oliver Plunkett do in 1649 to merit some loon trying to associate himself?

I won't look for an answer, you are sad and I won't be back to witness your bile.

Great song, though.

[avonlady1965]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[eimsnic]

guys this is an irish dancong video!! bit extreme to call it the nuremburg rallies its, a light entertainment show aimed at a mainly american audience, not exactly the same situation.

also in response to oliver1649, one of the downfalls of the internet is that it allows small minded ignorant people express extreme views that under normal circumstances would be irgnored and not given the time of day.

babcabu30, fair play balanced argument.

[ulsterloyalman]

It is like an Nurenburg Rally!!!

[bacabu30]

And the flag-waving OTT BBC proms isn't?!

[ulsterloyalman]

If he was an ulster loyalist they would say say he was a secterian bigot!!

[Chubbyoslo]

you are a sad fucking cunt

[miceal27]

they'd say you couldn't spell you dimwit. Also; i think you'll find that three counties in the province of ulster are in the republic of ireland. Are they 'loyal' like the rest of you cretins? It's not quite Nuremburg is it?

[teachill]

No I don't think so some how.. It's a song about the fundamental right of the Irish People to the ownership of Ireland.. Britain and your people has never and will never hold that same right. One day soon Ireland will be Free and United. "Our Revenge will be the laughter of our Children" P.H. Pearse.

[ulsterloyalman]

I would you love to to hear you sing that down that down the the Shankill Road you Plastic Paddy American twats!!!!

[nelleluton]

Army paper says IRA Not defeated,

BBC, UK

July 62007, 19:21 GMT 20:21 UK

An internal British army document examining 37 years of deployment in Northern Ireland contains the claim by one expert that it Failed to defeat the IRA.

The admission is contained in a discussion document released by the Ministry of Defence after a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

[AMason8634]

That's great!

[Oliver1649]

bacabu30,

Please explain what you mean by "backward bible-thumping Jesus freaks".

By the way, is this the same Republic of Ireland (ROI) who refuse to sign up to EU directives on contraception, abortion, and same-sex civil partnerships?

By way of comparison, the first same-sex civil partnership in the UK tool place in Belfast.

[bacabu30]

self-explanatory really.

as for same-sex unions, they are coming into law next year, contraception is widely available. (what EU directives?) Abortion isn't, but this isn't necessarily a modernity or religious issue. Even as an agnostic, I'd have strong reservations about it. Abortion is a whole topic unto its own and is considered barbaric by some people, like the way the public hanging and the death penalty is considered barbaric today.

[Emikero]

I don't really see the problem with contraception. If the Pope would only say that preventing a life ever being created is ok, then people wouldn't really need to "take a life from the world" as I suppose he sees it. Right? Anyway, about your whole comment about the "backward bible-thumping Jesus freaks", I hope you can try to keep that from insulting those of us who are Catholic, but not quite that Catholic. As I am myself. Maybe you can both agree to disagree? Because this is only leading to..

[Emikero]

farther quarrel that will end with nothing but bad blood between you both. :)

[bacabu30]

Emikero - you've never been to Northern Ireland I'm assuming! Although I do like it in  many ways and it has some great qualities, it's kind of the 'Deep South' of the UK and Ireland! I don't intend to insult anyone and the original comment of Jesus freaks was written in Belgium after a long night of drinking world-class Belgian beer :)

[Emikero]

lol

i was tired that night anyways...XD

[den22thecoast2]

Oliver, maybe you should adotp the victim mantality, from what I see from your own back garden, you more victims than we ever were lol..just an observation.

[lesleywol]

Reply...It is the people that are a nation, not the country. I refer you to "The Celtic Nation" Ireland is the sacred mother and home to the Celts and their people throughout the world. Perhaps this answers your question.

[baileymarie86]

Actually 'the celts' (not in this song but in general) are not just Irish. The Scottish, Welsh, Cornish and Norman French are also Celtic.

[Oliver1649]

A question....

When was the island of Ireland ever a 'nation'?

[bbenjoe]

When was it not?

[baileymarie86]

Before the English got their hands on it. It still is in spirit, but it's divided also.

[den22thecoast2]

Simple really, before we were invaded by a foriegn power! They spoke thier own language, own culture and brehon law...

[Oliver1649]

den22thecoast2,

Ireland was a loose grouping of warring kingships with no clear leader.

By the way, the English were invited to Ireland by one of these competing factions no less.

Own language? They have to pay/bribe the Irish to speak it now as it has all but died out.

English is the language of business, the Internet, and the future.

The Irish language is a quaint throwback on an EU financial life support machine.

I suggest you get over the victim mentality and move on.

[den22thecoast2]

Oliver, yes it was a groupinng, so what, it still had common beliefs and traditions as well as way of life. Invited,eh yes but not by the people, only one greedy noble who didnt represent the people.Language, well your misinformed there, my family go to gael school (they get best education in the country, top teachers). Yes its not used, but part of our identity, you would nt even understand, your place has been invaded, you guys have no idenity as far as i see. Victim, lol, no I afraid not!.

[den22thecoast2]

Victim, no you will find I am actully very confident, well educated and proud of my identity, perhaps you would rather someone who felt like a victim lol, Im sorry wrong man. Anyway why you looking at this .. u seem in wrong place lol.

[bacabu30]

Oliver, Ireland was a loose federation and Tara was its capital. But that was very far back. Ireland later on was more united. Lots of countries were loose federations or not even united countries at all, like Italy or Germany, for example, and they weren't fully united till quite recently, especially Italy. Oliver, you might as well get used to the idea that Ireland will be reunited again one day and not too far off in the future to be a "nation once again" hehe

[Oliver1649]

bacabu30,

Northern Ireland is part of a much closer "federation" called the United Kingdom.

It's been around since 1801 - quite recent really.

I thought you might have got used to that idea by now.

Keep singing your songs though.

[bacabu30]

I never said it wasn't! I'm actually quite familiar with the 'UK' as I'm part English myself. No need for the defensive and sarcastic comments...unless you are a cornered rat and realising that a UI is near. England doesn't want you backward bible-thumping Jesus freaks...and neither does ROI so you can kill each other for all I care hehe...

I just wished to address your lack of knowledge regarding old Irish history as your invader folk are too stupid and/or bigoted to learn any of it!

[Oliver1649]

bacabu30,

"I'm part English myself"? Hilarious.

What has that got to do with anything?

As I stated earlier, Ireland was a loose grouping of warring kingships with no clear leader.

Also, the English were invited to Ireland by one of these competing factions.

Tell us all, which one of these historic facts is incorrect?

[bacabu30]

It's irrelevant that I'm half-English or half-martian, but just answering your sarcastic comment about the UK feredation since 1801....and just explaining that I'm quite familiar with it, don't u worry.

And what have ur points got to do with anything?

[DenMyster01]

Oliver,

I find that people like you have an obscure view on history, distorted, bigotted, racist, + zenophobic...

Cromwell was responsible for over 500k deaths of local Catholic pop. in Ireland 1649/50 thru atrocities + war. England has manipulated Ireland thru gerrymandering, mass genocide, ethnic cleansing for Plantations + its history here is a shameful disgrace.

As an Irish Catholic, I consider this a privilege + rich history given to me by my family, something u can only apsire to.

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

Lol....can you provide one eye witness account that claims Cromwell either ordered or was involved in the deaths of non-combatants during his Irish campaign?

Make sure you understand the question before attempting an answer.

Ireland, at that time, was a clear and present threat to the parliamentary regime in London. It was a perfect stepping stone from which a hostile foreign power could invade England.

Lol....what did you expect for goodness sake?

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

Come, come my friend, you're just another serial victim who simply can't shift that giant chip on his shoulder about the English/British.

Seen it all before....

[DenMyster01]

No chip my friend... but I can see that you r in denial. U refute the atrocities that Cromwell committed in Ireland?

The direct legacy was that each generation has been trying to have a rematch + ultimately this ended up with violent Republican terrorism that everyone has paid a terrible price for. Only in the last 12 years-ish have the political aspirations of Irish Catholics in N.Ireland been addressed by the British Govt. + look at the success we have had. Happy to discuss.

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

I'll ask again....

Can you provide one eye witness account that claims Cromwell either ordered or was involved in the deaths of non-combatants during his Irish campaign?

Read the question.

[DenMyster01]

Eye witnesses might be hard to find given that this was 1649...!!!

But there is a wealth of contemporary evidence and even in Cromwell's own memoirs, he openly regretted the atrocity at Drogheda and the civilian murders... but for the wrongs reasons. He knew that this sent a message to Catholic Ireland that there would realistically be no quarter/speedy resolution and ultimately a fight to the bitter end.

Check out "God's Executioner - Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland".

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

Like I suggested, please read the question.

I asked for an "eye witness account" not an eye witness.

Therefore, for the third time....

Can you provide one eye witness account that claims Cromwell either ordered or was involved in the deaths of non-combatants during his Irish campaign?

[DenMyster01]

Oliver - this is turning into one of those rhetorical debates... read your own histories and find out...

The book below was written by Dr Micheál Ó Siochrú and it has input from many historians both English and Irish to give balance.

Available from Amazon - £10.49... and it seems that I might be able to change ur initial position of Imperialist Denial...!!!

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

Lol....my friend it's much simpler than that.

It's me asking you a simple straight question and you not answering it.

If you are either unable or unwilling to attempt an answer then why not just own up?

Too much to ask?

[DenMyster01]

Oliver,

If it comes to trying to educate the unconscious, then I will try again...

Check this book out - again on Amazon!!! Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy (Paperback) and the critique that Jason Mc Elligott St John's College Cambridge adds to the wealth of source material. Source material ie. Cromwell's own letters to Parliament etc...

Cast a wider net than the top shelves of newsagents...

Go back to Nuts magazines + try not to wear your wrists out... you're out of your depth...

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

Lol....well if you've read those books by Reilly and Ó Siochrú then my little question should pose no problem for you.

For the fifth time of asking....

Can you provide one eye witness account that claims Cromwell either ordered or was involved in the deaths of non-combatants during his Irish campaign?

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

I'm hoping you've run out of book titles to cut and paste and off-topic comments.

Maybe now you will actually attempt an answer?

Let's see.

[DenMyster01]

Oliver... ur starting to become an irritating/contemptible prick!!!

I have given you two balanced books on the subject... and yes I have read Ó Siochrú BUT offered another perspective.

Run out of book titles... you don't read history off cubicle walls in toilets or maybe u do? Suggest u change ur reading list and u might evolve into a double digit IQ life form - that has a semi coherent logic than repeatedly asking the same question? Now go back to the top shelf magazines+BNP manifesto?

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

Lol....my friend, you came to this site and made comments about Oliver Cromwell.

You were then asked one simple straight question.

Instead of attempting anything resembling an answer, to date you've responded with petty name-calling, foul language, filth, and a laughable array of schoolboy innuendo and off-topic remarks.

Offering up book titles and where to buy them is not the same as answering a question.

Ridiculous really.

[DenMyster01]

Oliver,

Foul language, ur a prick then + it seems u still are...

Now go read the 2 books that I suggested or alternatively get someone to read them to you...? Answer ur own questions... self enlightment...?

You came onto this vid + commented with a superior attitude + being disrespectful... + with a name than is shameful. Btw u have gotten a reaction from more than just me.

Now go read or dance around the May pole with a couple of morris dancers... I'm bored and ur an idiot...

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

Lol....my friend I've read both books, in fact I have copies here beside my computer.

So, for the sixth time of asking....

Can you provide one eyewitness account that claims Cromwell either ordered or was involved in the deaths of non-combatants during his Irish campaign?

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

My friend, now that we have the literature survey out of the way, which is it?

Make a stab at my one and only question or continue the evasion routine?

You know, there's really no need to get so upset.

Lol....I could have asked you a difficult question.

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

Now for the sixth time of asking....

Can you provide one eyewitness account that claims Cromwell either ordered or was involved in the deaths of non-combatants during his Irish campaign?

If you do not understand the question, I'd be happy to elaborate.

[Oliver1649]

DenMyster01,

For the fourth time....

Can you provide one eye witness account that claims Cromwell either ordered or was involved in the deaths of non-combatants during his Irish campaign?

[christiankittyluver]

was that first solo by michael?

[mizzslade]

im not irish..but i have some irish blood in me and i feel such pride and honour when i hear this song

[irishdancr]

you get chills watching it, the pride that surges through it

[khtx]

Wow look at the crowd... their reaction, screaming. Goosebumps.

[Cionaodh57]

I'm not from Ireland but my ancestors were, and my gut reaction to this confused me, because I got so choked up I couldn't speak.

Cionaodh

Monroe, LA

[brothersun43]

It just means hating the Brits is in your blood. SLAINTE!!!!

[simonpjhall]

Or that it's a well written song accompanied by beatiful music.

[brothersun43]

I'll give ya that one, mate. It DID come in #1 in the BBC poll about inspiring songs.

[ryrz]

it isnt the national anthem, but many think it should.

[bbenjoe]

I'm not Irish. But this sounds like a national antherm.

They're singing from the heart.

[rsmexicoyaa]

U DUTCH ORANGE WANKER!!!

[rsmexicoyaa]

EXCUSE ME YOUR A DUTCH ORANGE WANKER!!

[rsmexicoyaa]

oliver1649 u jealous bastard the irish were much more succesful than u english twats including running the brits out of N.I! it wil always be 1 nation hail the IRA

[Oliver1649]

Tell me, when was the island of Ireland ever one nation?

Keep singing.

Keep dreaming.

[NicktheIrishman]

Before you came

[teachill]

Yes, Before ye came..

[teachill]

Yes, Before ye came..The British gov has had no right, have no right today and never will hold that right to occupy my country.. Why not trying to rule your own for a change?

[NicktheIrishman]

Astonishing...i'm crying for the first time in 2 years and I can't stop listening to this. And I'm supposed to be in bed right now:

It's angel voice sang 'round my bed

A Nation Once Again

[Thereon666]

God bless Ireland!

[balfarg1982]

erinn go bragh alba gu brag celtic rule

[Amoneth]

nice concert

but i prefer with the IRA brandishing guns and waving the irih flag

or

simply from the singers of irish rebel music.

ERIN go BRAGH!!

[irishoforiel]

The Scots and Irish have much in common.Both speak Gaelic both subjugated by the English.

[ScottishAngel45]

This is cool I'm scottish and i love Ireland! Long live the Irish and the Scots!

[3Elvis]

Indeed long live both people and both nations ;o)