Christy Moore - Belfast Brigade

[mungral09]

fuck off ninja up the provos

[colleen59701]

This is Christie- and his is no Dublin accent- Kildare/Meath. If you cannot recognize his voice, you havent heard him much.

[daletucker100]

biggot cunt

[cianolfc4lyf]

to me that doesnt sound like christy moore, cos that bloke singin has a dublin accent, and christy moore most definitely does not

[DLS95]

@cianolfc4lyf obviously you have never heard most of Christy's early stuff, this is him. you should listen to his early stuff some of it is very good.

[TheCochyn]

This isn't Christy Moore. Whatever the sentiments - it's just not his voice.

[ElRojoDiablo1]

Pity he's not singing these songs anymore...........

Amazing what a record company can do to the man who sang about Section 31...........

[michael061282]

it is absolutely Christy Moore from 1969.

[ninjawageslave]

NOT CHRISTY MOORE. How do I know? Cos he's not a supporter of the cowardly IRA twats like you are.

[darkstar78]

@ninjawageslave It absolutely is Christy Moore! It's from his Paddy On The Road album, currently available through his website.

[2doctoma]

@ninjawageslave You do realise that he is singing about the old IRA, who were much more noble than the Provisional IRA. I can tell this as he talks about the Black n Tans.

[CitroenC4WRC]

I know how the Irish must feel. I'm from Germany and our country was nearly 40 devited. I was in Ireland in march, also in the north of Ireland (I say north of Ireland because Northern Ireland is British...but it isn't!!!) and the only thing I have to say is: GET YOUR ASS OUT OF IRELAND TOMMYS!!! FREE AND UNITED IRELAND!!!!

[despuis]

@CitroenC4WRC well said my friend,thank you

[paulnagle72]

Not Christy..sue.

[whichbit]

very relevant song to the time

[AnFiRiNNe2011]

did any of u cunts actually live through the troubles see wat it was like. to say u want that back tells me no!!! u ppl never saw the bombs the shooting or the riots back in the day.

im a catholic living in north belfast and i want one republic united as much as the next proud Irishman but not if it means going back to the troubles

[borledx]

@AnFiRiNNe2011 Nothing worth having comes easy

[eire1916rf]

@AnFiRiNNe2011 your 19 kid,you havent lived through any troubles they were over by the time you were about 5..

[dropshort105]

That is most definately NOT Chrisy More, that singer has a strong Dublin accent whereas Christy is from Kildare, Newbridge infact, as for saving Ireland, its beyond saving, our oun government has seen to that.

[cunobelinusX31]

This is not Christie! Christy is not a wanker like the singer of this "song" obviously is!!

[dublinlhad]

didn't sound like christy at first but it deffo is him. Good man Christy !

[atrueirishman]

crusty IRA and HAMAS supporting scumbag. I was a big fan til he stuck his big fat sweaty newbridge head into middle east politics. he can't do a thing without his boyfriend declan synott with him night and day now either.

[djleesus09]

@atrueirishman fuck up u twat y do u love the jewish pig israelis u fucking free state twat all of you cunts down there make me sick stupid cunts ireland should be one

[jcollins32]

thought "no surrender" was the warcry of someone else ha

[kex2t7]

my da got christy moore to do de h-block lp

but that dosent sound him atal

[showaddy11]

who would save ireland? the english?. the scottish protestants in harland and wolfe. the voting game. if yi left it tae them. they wid still keep it going on wi abject poverty. hail! hail!

[micb9]

didnt know this was christy, sounds well young

[Heinzhanne]

not barney is right...racism and race-hatred are loyalist methods!

Republicans are internationalists!

[BestLoyalistMusic10]

@Heinzhanne No republicans spread there propganda world wide both republicans and loyalists are even in there hatred towards each other.

I dont know where you get your ideas either your a catholic from some retarded country or your filled with there propganda anyway whatever it is get a life and stop supporting terriosts

[paul6j7o]

Brilliant comment No1barney1.I couldn`t have put it better myself..lol

[MrLalalooney]

thats johnny mcevoy!

[Biverix]

An tiocfaidh ar la.

[ganlesat]

And remember FRANK RYAN too, commander of the IRA and of the 15th International Brigade in Spain.....

[ganlesat]

My grandfather was volunteer in Spain against Franco with the italian International Brigade "Garibaldi": he (today is death) remember the irish comrades singing this song (Conolly Column) !!!!!!!!

[usernametakenasusual]

Thanks to the passing of the Lisbon Treaty, it doesn't matter anymore. It's official. Our ancestors died in vain. Foreign rule is back and with the consent of the people.

[believerster]

You're an idiot. EU parliamentary rule is mandated by democratically elected represented individuals from each member state. If you don't want a powerful EU in an era of newly emerging superstates then you can bitch about the Lisbon Treaty.

[usernametakenasusual]

Why is it that cunts like you need to start name calling? I mean, are you such a brain dead shit bag, that you can't simply state your point? Still, it's very gracious of you to allow me to bitch about the Lisbon treaty, you pompous twit, you.

[believerster]

I wasn't name calling, I was stating the obvious. If you post idiotic things, be prepared to be called out on them. Eejit.

[usernametakenasusual]

As obvious as it is who Herman Von Rumpuy is? Centralized power in Europe. People like Napoleon, Hitler, and the British monarchy have wanted this for centuries. Get to licking your new rulers boots, quisling. Great thing being part of a "super state" isn't it?

[believerster]

Sorry mate, the rules of the game are quite different now to how they were 50 years ago. You need to modernise or die.

[ailienhippy]

YAY GO US WE ROCK

[dek1916]

ireland un free shall never be at peace.

on to a socialist republic

[REDBACKDEAD]

Agree with you a chara,but not sure about the socialism, unfortunately......A free, united, strong Ireland is what we want.....i think

[dek1916]

fair enough a chara but without socialism britain will still rule us through their landlords and big business corporations.

socialism is key and has been ignored by the republcan movement for some time

[No1barney1]

Yeah, I just commented on a vid produced by an Irishman which rattles on about "immigrants" & "they're taking Irish jobs". He has a vid of a song about James Connolly 1st on his homepage ffs!

You couldn't make it up. Connolly has been hijacked by green Tories as a hero. He would have had nothing to do with them.

Socialism was off the map when McKee, Kelly, O'Connell took the provos after the split

it's still worth fighting for

WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE

WE HAVE NOHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS

[paul6j7o]

The dream of irish workers joining in the fight is over (im sad to say)No1barney because of al the secterianism involved.And lets face it,todays generation on both sides of the divide are only interested in gang wars,drugs etc ,mostly wee neds who havnt got a clue.Walking about wi theyr gold chains etc...Not all of them but a LARGE amount.This generation has failed the cause because they dont give a shit....God Help The republic.

[No1barney1]

a chara paul it's chaos -drugaddiction sectarianism & a soulless society where people are measured by how they look rather than what's in their hearts & minds.

I have not lost hope the youth are our hope.

There will be many phases & wrong paths taken but I believe we will win our socialist republic.

However, socialism must be priority through the ideas of Connolly & Seamus Costello. REDBACKDEAD is wrong to claim freedom under capitalism is enough. This is what Connolly warned against.

[4479benny]

here mate u will win fuck all wise up use shot drug dealers and its use that bring the drugs in both sides are up each orthers holes the so called ira and uvf thats hoods with wolly faces hoods dont rob there own or old people all use are is a let down ur mum is sick of u as well i would say u sure gerry adams didnt bust ur star u fucking scum bag cunt good luck lads up the hoods xtc fucker

[No1barney1]

benny - this is a comma ,

this is a full stop .

now fuck off you sectarian bigot.

another sick bastard who creams himself at child abuse.

[REDBACKDEAD]

@No1barney1 Sorry Barney, perhaps you are correct, but I do feel that when we achieve a united Ireland, the majority of the people will not favour outright socialism, I dont think it can work in free Ireland, but certainly we cannot continue the way that capitalism has run riot recently either...freedom and fairness for all citizens, that I believe is what people would settle for...

[iradan64]

@No1barney1 a socialist republic is what the working class irish need and the only way we are going to get it is through the bullet and the bomb. dont give up th fight, up the reals and the cira!

[snow54445]

well honestly i like more of a middle ground not socialst not conservative i look at it this way well for americans at least if no one's happy they have every reason to be happy but if people have a good working wage unemployment is low and everyone is middle class that is a pretty much a near perfect country

the world is built on the backs of the common man

[cccp975]

words of james connolly. respect man! the harp, the shamrock, green white and gold!

[BestLoyalistMusic10]

@iradan64 the bullet and the bomb damge more people and so far the cira have manged to kill to soliders who wenret ready for an attack who where both catholics and a nationalist police man , no offense but Northern Ireland is truley a country which belongs to britian you will never get it with violence because the republic dont want that and they cant afford NI

[32eire32jim]

@BestLoyalistMusic10 How can you come out wit a statement that N.I truly belongs to britain? Ireland is an island for a start, and it belongs to the people of Ireland who happen to live on this "island". If I steal something off u does that make it mine? Get real u muppet, talk some sense. Fuck off over to britain if you're not proud t b Irish, u don't hear english or scots saying how they love being brits, all loyalists are traitors by nature and the descendants of inbred parasites

[Bepold]

"We're out for our Republic and to Hell with their Free State, NO SURRENDER IS THE WAR CRY OF THE BELFAST BRIGADE"

Provisional Sinn Féin would do well to listen to this song.

[mikildonlan121]

26 + 6 = 1

[cfcwr08]

up the irish belfasters

[cantwell94]

A true peace will come when Ireland is one.

[rifleman1122]

Up The Free State

[Boru001]

The Free State has not existed since 1948. Collins compromise, killed by a "friend"

at Beal Na Blagh, Co. Cork.

R.I.P.

[Bepold]

So what government sits in Leinster House? Is the 26 county state no more?

There is no Free State(!) Good one, tell another and soon enough you'll be doing stand up.

[ciaranbluey]

that's not christy moore

[antokane]

I think it is in fact.

[PathocracyNow]

Just as in 1920 SF have been tricked by the Brits. There will be no peace in Ireland, not as long as MI5 governs Ulster. There are no 'dissidents': this is a phony label, just as 'insurgents' is in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are psychopathic colonialists and the masses of people of conscience they oppress. Nothing changes.

[padraig48]

we shouldnt support these dissidents, who call themselves "protecters", these dissidents wont get anywhere near as big as the provisional arms struggle which lasted round about 30 years..... during these past few years through a political stuggle, SF and the irish people have got closer to a 32 all Ireland than the 30 years of arms struggle.......

Dissidents are tryin to bring about an arms struggle again, and no body wants see anyone else in they're family dead!

[26and6]

the provos broke away from the sticks so does that make them "dissidents"? SF administer british rule in ireland, they work for the english government. there is no chance of unifying ireland through stormont

[CELTICSRFC]

Provisional Irish Republican Army

[belbous1]

sein fein,

a vote is better a bullet.

vote.

[cadno1]

true

[weephil]

hail hail

[nullo54]

viva la lotta di liberazione del popolo irllandese, saluti fraterni dall'italia

[irishrover1967]

the PROVOS have sold us out

[aoibhe]

Good song, but I've no respect for Christy. Her abandoned his principals for a lucrative recording contract with Song BMG in the early 90's.

He is on record as saying he is ashamed of singing songs like this one. Christy, we should never be ashamed of singing songs of our history!

[martyc7]

When has he said that? I have nothing but respect for Christy!

How many other artists stood up and highlighted what was happening to their fellow Irish people like he did??

Bono an his like are quick to defend anyone being persecuted on the other side of the world but when it was happening in his own back yard he didnt say a thing.

I heard a recent radio interview Christy did for the BBC in which he said he still sings songs about the hunger strikers and other rebel songs

[toad14444]

we should respect the dissident republicans they are the only protectors of ireland we have to support these people

[alanidlehands]

Colin Duffy's one man band?

Dissident republicans are a music hall farce.

[ciaranmull]

RIRA.....wer dey gone again tho....killed a coupl and den fuked off..im dissapointed i tot derd be a few mor killed.....ah sure wat can ya do

[stevelaw6673]

crusty moore sings some shite and you fuckers are good at talking it

[THEDUDESEATTLE]

long live the green white and gold, and the ira i mean the real ira. RIRA

[JuliatheCoolest]

It must be early; that doesn't even sound like him, so young.

Interestingly cheery and upbeat music for such a grim topic.

[tillbot8]

i didnt write that, a bloke in my friend list called ''ferretchest'' did. give out 2 him

[tillbot8]

stupid irish cunts up the uda..rott in hell

[Seamus616]

it makes me proud to be from Ulster, and most importantly Ireland

[ShamrockerIRA]

Up the 'Ra!

[bullndl]

FREE ÉIRE

[TerrySleeper]

PIRA surrendered & handed in their guns years ago.

Get over it.

[phpearse]

R.I.R.A. Fight on

[TamtheWomble]

If yous won the so called war pira/cira and every other ira there is how come N.I is still british? You have to ask are Gerry and Martin happy with what they've got? They seem so they are happy. They keep telling yous not to go back to the old days i wonder why.

[Frankieireland]

There was three main aims to the violence in the IRA campaign of 68-98. 1) Human rights for the catholics of NI; 2) Bringing the Brits to the baragaining table; 3) Making the brits allow the Republic of ireland to have a say in the running of the north. All three aims have been accomplished, we can now establish freesom through peaceful means. You're either misinformed or ignorant of the history of NI.

[bennyfaethebrig]

all my mates i live with and work with are from Newry and Cross.. there is no Northern Ireland as far as they are concerened. I asked my mate, from Tyrone.. when northern ireland are playing, do you support them.. he gave me the perfect answer.. why would i support a country i dont recognise?

[REDBACKDEAD]

@Frankieireland Sorry but surely the aims were to achieve a united Ireland. Thats what I always thought, so aim No 1 is achieved......thats all

[BestLoyalistMusic10]

@Frankieireland Your wrong , the human rights was going to happen anyway threw peaceful means , 2 the british goverment had to come to the baragain table when people are getting murdered left right and centre and the republic dont have a say in how northern ireland is run

so basiclly the ira campaign was a campaign built around murdering protestants and catholics alike and wanting a united ireland for only catholic republicans

[Frankieireland]

@BestLoyalistMusic10 I'm not trying to be smart but I actually can't understand what you're saying.

[bannanachops]

@Frankieireland Absolutely true, all needs to happen now is representation in the Dáil and that will only be a matter of time.

[Bepold]

@Frankieireland You Free State wanker. Is that why there are groups fighting on? Was the intention not to get rid of the Free State and Northern Ireland and replace it with the Republic? To suggest what you have suggested is offensive and a slap in the face of every IRA volunteer who died loyal to the Republic.

[MERVILLE3]

@Frankieireland Easily the best comment on NI I've seen in my puff

[uptheras]

Glory to the Belfast Brigade

[bullndl]

not ....up the ra ...got to luv christy

[michelleoooooo]

i don't like the tune to this song !! it reminds me of American history x

[bullndl]

ye me to lol...

[Seamus616]

yeah it comes from an american war march

[m16a1rifle]

tiocfaidh ar la-de oppresso liber!!!

[hutcyh]

I meet Christy Moore in a barber shop in Newbridge, he is a great man.

[ShamrockerIRA]

What was he doing there, he has little to no hair to speak of!

[johnpaulmeehan]

but still NO SURRENDER TIOCFAIDH AR LA. THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES................

[Eoghan1982]

This is not Christy Moore folks. Way, way off his voice

[neilhosey]

this is christy when he was young. In the 70's i think. He has a few albums, have a look for morrissey and the russian sailor to hear more.

[skladanowski]

It must've pissed off English? Right? I'm not fluent in English.

[theraven77]

I dont think this is christy, ive everything hes ever done and every book written on him, hes never mentioned this song anywhere and yous know what hes like for name droppin songs and where he got them from or when he first heard or sung them. ive seen him live dozens of times over 30 odd years and...... i stand to be corrected boys but it does not sound like him im afraid. anyone care to elaborate......

[lreland1]

See above comment... The Album is Paddy on the Road and it was his first album in 1969. Go to Christy's official website and you can hear for yourself, albeit not Belfast Brigade... but you will hear the same voice...a bit of Googling you'll find the proof you need.

[lreland1]

It's on his site in writing too

[darrin42]

THIS IS CHRISTY MOORE lol. 150% I Never thought he recorded this lol. Ireland1, where did yo uget this Gold? lol. Thank you for Uploading. And for you Non Believers, It is christy moore lol. Any through Fan, can easily tell!

[lreland1]

Not sure where I got it tbh, but I have the whole album... which is weird cos I have no idea where it came from! I must admit, I was a bit suspicious when I first heard it, but after playing it a few times you can tell it is definately him.

[jasonmathias]

@darrin42 Yes thanks You!!!! :)

[Menla1]

it is. i have the album. lol. he even rewrote the original lyrics.

[Seamus616]

Yeah this is from Paddy On The Road, his first album. You have to get it

[crinnigan07]

christy is a kildare man .. that is a newbridge co.kildare accent not a dublin accent!!! up kildare

[03currand03]

These are different lyrics to the ones I know.

[utban]

Can somebody send this song in MP3 to me please

[declan1961]

good song and true!

[looseheadprod]

not true at all you fruit

[lewis1916]

that is christy! keep it up christy!

[yuck89]

thats christy alright

yeoooooo

[aidpec]

christy moores the bollox end off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[timalloybhoy]

Excellent!

[LawlessOUU]

Thats not christy, christy hasnt got a Dublin accent

[Domitianvs]

That is indeed Christy, albeit 40 years ago. This song is from his very limited (I think it was 500 co.) debut album "Paddy on the Road" from 1969. He was still litte more than a lad back then (24 years or so), so no wonder his voice has changed over the years.

[bpc1960]

thats not christy........he dont sing no reb songs no more!

[Griswalds]

It was recorded in the 1970's....

[bpc1960]

im proud of you.

[tombarry1921]

His version of 'only our rivers run free' is pure class.

[bpc1960]

tom barry! a true cork man true freedom fighter!

[lewis1916]

bring back the rebel tunes christy!

[langerwaa]

to say that he turned his back on rebel songs is wrong..... certain songs dont need to be sung anymore especially by a man who is so looked up to and respected... well not that they shudnt be sung anymore because that would be forgetting our past and our strong history but i just think there is a time and a place for certain songs

[lreland1]

LOL I agree. This is from one of his early albums, maybe his first. He does sound very young and his voice (and music) has definately got better over the years.

[Griswalds]

Was recorded in the 1970's same album as "My Grannys dustbin lid"

[evolaine]

Your comment shows little knowledge of Christy Moore Catalpa...

[IrishDaragh]

well he is right christy never sings rebel songs anymore

[obrien97eire]

he is right hes still is a good singer though

[francishughes81]

Catalpa is right though, he doesnt sing rebel songs anymore. but he a lovely man and singer.

[catalpa]

You wont hear Christy singing the rebel songs anymore.

These are the songs that made him famous and he turned his back on them,