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  • Dia na hÉireann

  • Go Getem Sinead- Nobody is gonna tell you your business - Screw Frank Sinatra

  • im 100% irish and hate the brittish for the reason they stoped me and my comrades from speakin our language !!!!!!!!!!!

  • AI JAI AI AI AI she is so fucking hot

  • RIRA!

  • Up the Ra

  • Reggie twist sounds well.

  • Welcome oh woman who was so afflicted T'was our ruin that you were in bondage Our fine land in the possession of thieves & sold to the foreigners Ch. Oro! You're welcome home! x3 Now that summer's coming Grainne Mhaol’s coming over the sea Armed warriors along with her as guard They are Irish, not English or Spanish & they will rout the foreigners Ch. May it please the God of Miracles that we may see Tho we only live a week after Grainne Mhaol & a thousand warriors Dispersing the foreigners
  • Although I've always loved Sinead's singing voice, this song--one iconic to Catholic rebels in Northern Ireland and adopted from an older one of the Catholic Scottish Jacobites--is ironic to hear sung by such a critic of the Church.

  • @drillsargentadog how is this iconic to northern catholic rebels ? its about grace o'malley who was a pirate from mayo... nothin got to do with religion

  • @FinuteD1 The original version is about Prince Charlie in Scotland; the Jacobite cause had religion at its heart, as well as nationalism. You're correct that the this version is about Grace O'Malley, who was a popular folk figure to the Northern rebels. The fact that Pearse himself wrote the verses here sung bears testament to that. Just listen to the words (I assume you speak Gaelic)--O'Malley is coming to route the foreign usurpers! That would resonate with a 20th century rebel.

  • @FinuteD1 -- It's only nominally about religion. It's about foreign rule. The irony is that O'Malley was willing to help the English and told Elizabeth I herself in person, though the deal fell apart ultimately.

  • I really have to relearn Irish.

  • Shame for me :( Sienad was in Bulgaria and i miss that :(

  • cheers Sheaned. If there is any possible way to be in Bulgaria ... alot of people will recognize you as part of our history. Fight for freedom is our breath !

  • I'm from Hungary, but I lived in Ireland for 3 years and I really miss it. Love this song! I wish I knew the meaning... But it's good anyway!

  • @perrka83 Look for it in Wiipedia. This is the Pádraig Pearse version.

  • This version and the one from the Dubliners are the best.

  • Look at her she is PROUD to be Irish!!

    Sining the Irish Rebel Song

  • @62Dukey You spelled singing wrong.

  • Grainne Mhaol is coming over the sea,

    Armed warriors along with her as her guard,

    They are Irishmen, not foreigners or Spanish...

    And they will rout the foreigners!

    May it please the God of Miracles that we may see,

    Although we only live a week after it,

    Grainne Mhaol and a thousand warriors...

    Dispersing the foreigners!

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  • The English can F off

  • takin a traditional gaelic tune and throwing some reggae on it. Nice

  • arent there an irish uilleann pipe in the background?

  • how do you say with proper grammar in Gaelic, "My shillelagh I let fly"?

  • fuck the shaved head that's my girl

  • Sinead goes Rasta - Love it. :)

  • Fantastic . Viva Ireland.

  • Yesss, Shinead forever!

  • Thank you.

  • she is shit hot

  • Well said

    Truth be told Less than 1000 Oglaigh na hEireann were members of an ASU

    (for valid reasons)

    Much is owed to those few Volunteers who rejected the Redmondites and shoneens.

  • Well said

  • :-)

  • Wow we Irish are a contentious lot. I see posts from people who like this song and Sinead who are fighting about it. I am 2 generations removed from Cork but I see this in my Uncles and cousins; I like the Irish fire that burns in all of us. The Swedish side just sighs and refills the horn with mead.

    Erin-Go Bragh

  • Damn Jacobites.

  • Sinead O's version of this ancient Irish "Welcome Home" song is extraordinary, powerful, and it motivates one to go up and dance with her. Well done Colleen.

  • she has such a wonderful voice <3 anyone got the mp3 for it or can recommend any irish language songs?

  • Good voice, but the dress sense of ABBA, and what's that all that jigging about in aid of?

  • She reminds me a pre-roman celtic goddess

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  • They certainly are. The Celtic people and culture existed before -and- after what people today call the Roman Empire.

  • @Svartalfgeist yes i've gotten my facts completely wrong. i'll just remove that

  • Fuckkkin MAGIC !

  • the hotline dot org

  • i somtimes come here just to look at Sinead's beautiful coat

  • It's a Jacobean song about a 16th century female Irish pirate Grainne Mailie or Grace O'Malley in an anglicised form. She changed sides about as often as her coat in the battle between the English under Elizabeth I and her Anglo-Irish neighbours. The IRA reinvented the song as e rebel song using words by Irish poet Padraig Pearce because the song refers to Foreigners being pushed out of Ireland by the Irish alone and not mercenaries.

  • It makes me want to get up and liberate a country.

  • @tblack2628 - Yes! - and especially the Irish. Get the F*** Out (GTFO), English!!! You can "free" India, the "Jewel of the English Crown" (aka "property") and numerous other "colonies" with whom you now enjoy a very special and productive relationship, but you can't do the same for the people next door to you, with whom you have more in common than just about any other? Enough with the "ruling other people" crap already. GTFO!!!

  • @TheMC1215 In all fairness, they've given up most of their former colonies. Unless you count the Falklands whose population mainly consists of sheep.

  • @TheMC1215 look up your history, ya... they were DEFINITELY nothing but helpful and kind... they never killed thousands or indirectly caused the death of a thousand more...

    You're ignorant as hell, at least read a history book, they soften it up and don't tell everything, but they tell enough for you to see how wrong you are... dumbass

  • @tblack2628 Or a lot of countries.

  • @lucasleivia

    I generally agree with your sentiment but I think there are reasons for that type of thinking which I think Sinead O'Connor sums up so well in her famine song.

  • @lucasleivia On your pont of view there is no difference between the Irish and Japanese.

    The both tribes are very much alike. and this can be said to any kind of nations or races...

  • @lucasleivia As an O'Bierne originating from Roscommon, I was reading that while my family did work with the British as government officials they seemed to be behind most of the uprisings in the region ;-) All I can say is I am very proud of my ancestry and especially of my Irish ancestors! They have given me a lot to be proud of both in Ireland and here in the United States.

  • Bra sagt!

    /Hear hear)

  • @lucasleivia What do you me we,your from the uk,your not one of us. We were the most rebellious of all britains colonies,every generation rebelled with war and if that did not work we used politics. The few Irish that fought with the brits,fought in other countries not against their own people, only unionists fought for them in Ireland.Every Irish persons grandfather fought in the war of independence,so stop trying to belittle our history brit. Typical scumbag hun

  • @TheIrishceltbhoy im sorry but why is everything a fight? its a music video cant you get along with people from england too?!

  • @chadcoreyslater If they are insulting Ireland then not a chance, I would not even consider it for split second. They are the ones that make fighting necessary not us,same storey for the last 800 years.

  • A St. Paddy's Day shout out to the good people of Cleveland, OH. ...heard this fabulous, beloved song on St. Paddy's Day, 2010 at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Cleveland near the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...chills ran down my spine. So wonderful to see Irish heritage celebrated throughout North America!

  • So, turns out she was in the right to rip up the popes picture all those years ago. She kicks some major ass.

  • A wonderful misunderstood woman :)

  • she butchered that song...............

  • @Thuglordrpt

    Amen. She's a useless cunt.

  • @Primordialfan1 you couldent do better shes amazing were you from

  • @FOYZOuth

    I could do better just by singing the song without any instruments whatsover. Now fuck off.

  • @Primordialfan1  who sings like that were your from cause nobodys a patriot

  • @FOYZOuth

    What the fuck are you saying you idiot?

  • @Primordialfan1 i dont even know anymore sorry i was pissed my sisters b day

  • @FOYZOuth

    Ah is that all? Fecking hell that's allowed.

  • @Thuglordrpt

    And I'm sure you can pack a theater in Dublin with folks singing along.

  • she looks like a fool but shes a good singer

  • Isn't Sinead awesome!

  • WHEN I HEAR HER SING . IAM PROUD IAM IRISH.

  • Irish reggae! cool!

  • Gráim thú!

    Love from greece.

    I like the irish language and people... courage brothers!

  • @tzamilia I LOVE THE GREEK PEOPLE . IAM IN LOVE WITH A GREEK LADY.

  • @MrVampiredog Your comment is GREEK to me. This music and musisians are Irish...

  • @yosti2007 FIRST OF ALL MIND YOUR OWN BUSSINESS. I KNOW IT IS IRISH MUSIC AND SHE IS IRISH. I WAS RESPONDING TO @TZAMILLA COMMENT . SO F OFF AND INVESTIGATE BEFOR YOU MAKE A JACK ASS COMMENT. BYE OLD CHAP

  • This song carried me through some darkness. Goes straight to my heart.

  • i love you Sinèad toda mi vida ...

  • i love you sinead toda mi vida ...

  • Irish faces

  • Tá Gráinne Mhaol ag teacht thar sáile,

    Óglaigh armtha léi mar gharda,

    Gaeil iad féin is ní Gail] ná Spáinnigh,

    Is cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh.

    and heres to you grace o malley

  • I'm related to Grace O'malley!!!!!!!

  • @Eruanna94 How proud you must be!!! When told she must kneel before the Queen, she replied, I will only kneel before my God,. Not quoted correctly but you get the idea! What a woman!!!!!

  • @Eruanna94 you should be very proud!!!!!!!

  • Fiesty Talented & Patriotic

  • An amazing interpretation of a fucking great song -Sinead's greatest moment. She is beautiful.

  • I want that coat! :)

  • @nicolaXxXable gorgeous isn't it?

  • @nicolaXxXable

    ME TOO!!!!!!

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  • This is awesome.

  • coel agus craic.

  • coel agus craic

  • I don't understand a single word...but I just LOVE this song! Amazing! :-)

  • @Marteena007 This is a song about prince charles of scotland and the jacobite uprising. He is a hero to many.  The first line of the song says "you are welcome back"

  • @belfastireland1 good to know, thanks for the info

  • @belfastireland1 You are a liar mister:

    PART1

    Welcome Oh woman who was so afflicted

    It was our ruin that you were in bondage

    Our fine land in the possesion of thieves

    And sold to the foreigners

    Chorus: You are welcome home!x3

    Now that summer is coming

    Grainne Mhaol is coming over the sea

    Armed warriors along with her as guard

  • PART2

    They are Irishmen, not English or Spanish

    And they will rout the foreigners

    Chorus

    May it please the God of Miracles that we may see

    Although we only live a week after it

    Grainne Mhaol and a thousand warriors

    Dispersing the foreigners

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  • @BrickG Sinead starts by singing the chorus, "Oh you are welcome home". That is why I said it is the first line of the song. I know that it is the chorus, but she starts the song with the chorus not the verse. I am sorry if you think that makes a Iiar. I have the exact same information on the parts of the song just as you posted it, but the chorus comes first "You are welcome home" that is why I made my comment to Marteena007. This is recorded as the Patrick Pearce version of the song.

  • Celts Rule!

  • Is she looking at a teleprompter for the words?

  • @deathbybagpipes No she is not.

  • @BrickG aah, ok. I guess that's just what it looked like.

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  • zachtblauw: The basic melody for the sea shanty 'What shall we do with the drunken sailor' was in inverted commas "borrowed" from this much earlier Irish song. Now political correctness decrees that in schools in Britain they sing 'what shall we do with the grumpy sailor' instead of the original. Madness!

  • hair?

  • What's next Sinead, "what shall we do with the drunken sailor"?

  • @zachtblauw hope so i liek that song alot got to admit its good

  • @zachtblauw . Why not? There is validity in keeping old songs alive, be they bawdy drinking songs or a call to arms. 

  • what do the words actually mean i heard them in wind shakes the barley

  • @deckykid11 look it up at wikipedia....its a song members of the ira would sing when they marched...

  • I cant understand the lyrics but am loving her voice.

  • I love this woman ^^

  • Awesome, love everything about it. And I'm from Northern Ireland

  • @ryfree21 I think you mean your from Ireland.

  • Sings this in the same key as Mary Black does.

  • i want her coat!!!!!!!!!!

  • Thank you very much for uploading.

    and thank you for the lyrics as well.

    This is the best song of Sinead (my opinion).

  • Hyfryd Iawn Sinéad

  • How exactly do you pronounce "Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh"?

    Thanks in advance

  • @ragnatoad An Ish air hokt on toww rid

  • @ragnatoad you pronounce Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh = Aahnish air hocht on toewrig

  • she spoke out about all the abuse that went on in the church and tore up a pic of the pope on tv fair play to her

  • she is very good in her country...a very good citizen...love you sinead...

  • it's like celtic reggae, AWESOME!!!

  • the Irish language seems hard to learn.. i'd love to learn tho

  • She looks like a hobbit with haemorrhoids and is as silly as a sackload, but there is no doubt that the little lass can sing.

  • What an Eire doll

  • si quelq'un pouvait me dire en quelques mots , ce que raconte cette chanson, merçi d'avance

  • Much as I agree with Tom Paine,... This is Ireland,.. we have suffered enough with english shyte,.. The earth is my country,.. but sometimes my brethren inhibit me?

  • @LeiaRowan How have YOU been inhibited? How have YOU suffered "english shyte"?

  • @DavidGannonRugby

    You attack alot a people sweetie,.. you must be anglo-deutsch,.. no worries hun, we have hugs for the tourists and bullets for the rest,.. come to Eire and see what we do, what we put up with,.. I am sinn fein, we suffered 800+ years of anglish shyte,.. We are children of a fightin` race, never yet have we been disgraced,.. unlike the sassanachta foe, who are now a mongrel hind,.. bright blessings in your fight for sovereignty with your new muslim masters.

  • @DavidGannonRugby we have hugs for the tourists and bullets for the rest,.. come to Eire and see what we do, what we put up with,.. I am sinn fein, we suffered 800+ years of anglish shyte,.. We are children of a fightin` race, never yet have we been disgraced,.. unlike the sassanachta foe, who are now a mongrel hind,.. bright blessings in your fight for sovereignty with your new muslim masters.

  • @DavidGannonRugby we have hugs for the tourists and bullets for the rest,.. come to Eire and see what we do, what we put up with,.. I am sinn fein, we suffered 800+ years of anglish shyte,.. We are children of a fightin` race, never yet have we been disgraced,.. unlike the sassanachta foe, who are now a mongrel hind,.. bright blessings in your fight for sovereignty with your new muslim masters.

  • I think it was Celtic Night III at the Stade de France... no ?

  • Brilliant she sings this better than most trad singers love it

  • David, r u irish ?

  • @grayclock yeah

  • how so fucking good are u ! Every day when i hear irish music ... u girl are my first vision. and i am not a regular freak .. plssss ! justwan to say - i realy like yr music & country !

  • @grayclock you are sweet. what a nice comment. :-)

  • "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." - Paine

  • Em, no it wasn't. Pearse wrote it, but that doesn't make it a rebel song. It's about the history of the west and Granuaile. Stop taking your history lessons from The Wind that Shakes the Barley.

  • true (patriotism). However, we must remember that the discourse of patriotism has been written by people who have constructed 'anti-patriotism' as nothing more than the championing of a certain type of culture (suits, speaking English, empirical rationalism, hatred of diversity within this context).

    Accepting diversity is to accept Juvenal's creed of 'nothing human is alien to me'.

  • a brilliant performance of a brilliant song by a brilliant singer

    but am i the only one that thinks it's hilarious that she's doing her Peter-Tosh-imitation dance?

  • @smartalek1 Forgive my ignorance, but who?

  • @smartalek1 she can do wot she likes 

  • you are such an awesome crazy woman!!

  • @medea1990...got it thanks man...

  • You clearly have never been in Ireland...

  • @youPHAILphstyle Well, I have just been living here for all 23 years of my life. So Yes I have been to Ireland.

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  • Sinead you are the best! Eireann go brach! Teodora

  • ta rian den reggae le sonru taobh istigh den cheol seo. Toisc seo agus na chieftains le ziggy marley ta me ag smaoineamh gur meascan maith ata ann.