Paul Brady , a brill song-writer and Musician...And of course an Irish-man and supporter of the republican Movement, Class- vid , UPPA RA, and a happy new -year from Billy-Reid..,.,T.A.L
Paul Brady , a brill song-writer and Musician...And of course an Irish-man and supporter of the republican Movement, Class- vid , UPPA RA, and a happy new -year from Billy-Reid..,.,T.A.L
Crack is Back,!!! "Ahem, I thought u never went away ...hehehe", hows it goin me bold auld muscle !!, hows ur mam keepin , i know ur dad died , so dont take me as a snotty nose kid waiting for a Tissue, Happy New Year to u and urs ...!!!
Easy for Brady to sing it. People who lived in those times have a different view. Brady fecked-off to London and pontificated about peace from a safe distance. Good song, but I don't believe him.
such a beautiful song as a proud ulster man from the shankill road, this song has taught me to stop feeling bitter and secterian and take people as i find them, and no matter were you go north or south it's beutiful island full of friendly people, the last thing I want is a united ireland which i feel it's what this song is aiming for but hey who cares deano lol 1862
@SEAJEA6560 You couldnt be more wrong, this song is about whether its a united or a north south ireland is irrelevant, we are missing the human suffering that both causes are inflicting on both sides.
As he said is the twisted wreakage down on mainstreet going to get us to freedom? It is a beautiful song about how we ruin others lives with what we percieve to be right.
@lelylandsklar , of course its all about war !!, its da same as afghanistan , iraq , and tim-buck -fuckin too, like !!!, who needs war to solve der rights !!, children and women have been bombed all over da world , and dat der is suppose to be for peace , from UK, and Da States , hes talkin about dem all..its called "Freedom". Ta for da post!!
Those young rascals in Belfast still haven't understood in 2011 what Paul Brady was singing about some twentyfive years ago. Please love thy neighbour and love your beautiful country, be it Northern Ireland or the republic. You live in paradise; please don't turn it into hell again!
Celtic Thunder brought this song to my attention, sorry Paul, Im an expat in Spain but I love Irish music, but this one slipped through the net. A wonderfully worded song with a unique melody. Well done, it deserves recognition.
This song puts me to sleep every night. It reminds me of bad times and bad people from my time in northern ireland, iraq and afghanistan and then out of nowhere someone amazing comes into your life. Perfection.
I'm 21 years of age, straight male, i'm listenin to this cryin thinkin of the shit that goes on in the world, Paul, probably don't see this, but it'd honor me if you came to play in Wexford !
"Turn your back on your own." Ironic how that could be taken in Lybia today. I get that I'm probably taking that out of text but it still applies. :( / I never have heard of him until today. Wonderful and I don't care if my housework doesn't get done. I'm sitting here until I've heard everything he's done on YT. Thanks Inde for sharing. :)
I became aware of his music working at The Irish Pub in Tampa. Songs and Crazy Dreams was the cd, surely the most inspirational and brilliant work of genius that my ears will ever enjoy. All other recordings pale in comparison. But hey, that's just me....
Reading some of these bitter comments about a lump of turf we're only gonna be on for 80 odd years, it's hard to believe that we're in the 21st century, the time of enlightenment and maturity for mankind!
Paul Brady played no part in the heroic People’s Democracy at Queen’s University, Belfast. In this song he makes comment on the N.Ireland, an issue he carefully avoided when he was a student at Queens. When other students, such a Michael Farrell and Bernadette McAliskey, put their necks on the line, Paul Brady hide in his room. Paul Brady’s ‘Island’ is about himself – a self-regarding, anal-retentive, navel-gazing pompous shite. He never had the guts to act on what he sings.
@montpelier42d although i except that you know what your talking about, why cant you take a song for a song and not what the writer was involved in when writing it? it's a great song (melodicaly and lyricaly) whatever way you look at it.
Don't be silly. Not everybody goes out on the front line and God bless those who do for their courage. But it is the artists' job to make the people aware of what is going on through his/her art. And this Paul Brady does admirably with this sad and beautiful song. Often these types of songs drive the people on to the streets. So don't knock our artists please, we need them just as much as the soldiers.
@MABMCC The job of the artist is not to ‘make people aware of what is going on’ I can understand why people like the song: beautiful melody, and who could disagree with his message of pacifism? Only those, perhaps, who were ineluctably engaged in the reality of the conflict. Other Irish artists, such as Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel and Thomas Kinsella, et al, wrote about the conflict in honest, meaningful and inspiring ways. Perhaps because they had no interest in selling pop records.
To be free is to ave peace , Im proud to be irish , and rightly so , we will fight and defend our land from "Nasties", Paul brady is a magic Musician from da land of "Eire", he has heard it all before , Da promises , etc, So stand up and fight for ur rights, or run away to an island dats free...End of ..T.A.L
@SEAJEA6560 Actually, Irelands peace has nothing do with being 'FREE' or 'UNFREE'. When we get rid of the idiot mentality from retards like you we'll be at peace. When is it going to sink in....? YOU (and your terrorist/criminal friends) ARE NOT WANTED!
A Nation is defined by it's people. The people of Ireland do not want this 'war'. But idiots like you do... therefore, you should not consider yourself Irish. You are of some kind of 'Non-Irish' person.
@TheSitara Very true, it can be applied to so many places and so many scenarios. The futility of war... It's sad that so many people leaving comments on this video miss the point though.
@77tjmurphy Im sure she is in a far better island now my friend.Think not of how she died rather remember how she lived and you will meet her there again when its time,,,chin up :D
EH cjrmd prick!!! What about the GERMANS!!! We may have committed crimes in the past!! What about the fact you bombed the British mainland while we were fighting the Germans!! If we had not stood up to a greater power you would be speaking GERMAN now!!! Mind you< you lot would probably prefer that!!! NOW get off your perch and grow up!! Why dont you go and bomb China, if feel strong enough about human rights!! Enough said
This song is so beautiful and powerful ! It's always the same old story, innocent blood is still flowing all over the world to feed political and economical interests !!! how long will it last ?
@Smoke4Freedom If every town in N. Ireland independently voted whether to join Ireland then wouldn't that be a fair and peacful way for every community to individually choose what they want?
@nanny999999 My ideal would be the whole British Isles; Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Britain, Cornwall, N. Ireland etc. as autonomous yet united governments under a united Celtic tanist society where everyone speaks a universal gealic, no one gives a crap about whose land's whose, where there ain't any armies or capitalist threat... something like that but pretty damn far fetched that is.
Your an Idealist, I like that. And I too would like to live in a world where we all get along and sing "kum by ya" around the campfire while the sun sets, but you know that can't happen, nor has it ever happened anywhere. The reason is an equation. (British=Dicks) Which is something we don't stop to think about much, but this is a people who formed SEVERAL countries by raping them until they couldn't take anymore. And for the Irish to forget that, would be blacks to forgeting slavery. NOPE
@loismustdie475 Haha, I live in England atm (by accident, lol). The rudest, worst mannered people in England are the English themselves! All foreigners have been very polite, the blacks are the most polite British-born here.
How different, and better, the world could have been if English culture hadn't been shat all over it. India, would have been amazingly different, Ireland too, imagine seeing N. America run under the Native American customs rather than some twisted ex-Brit idealogies.
@hollywilo Yep, native americans had it hard, i feel so bad, they should be given back a big chunk of each Nrth. American state so they can all develop their cultures and languages again rather than being stuck on those dead soil reservations, those places are proper ghettos. Sad.
I went over to take care of family, ,was ill, spent all my money, one thing led to another. Havent been able to get back since. Plus dont have anywhere to move back to nor any chance of work if I do.
@loismustdie475 'Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it', let us not forget. White people say move on, you wouldn't say that to a Jew, eh?
@ jethro081 The democratic will of the people the last and only time the island of Ireland voted democraticly was 1919 when they voted for total independence, the slaughter started and continued after that by a country unwilling to remove its illegal occupation beidh ar lá linn.
@monaghaned what is freedom? what does it look like? what will it change? im genuinely interested, please enlighten me as to what is worth the slaughter and the destruction of the troubles.
The song is universal; not just about "the troubles" in Ireland, but about the waste, cruelty, and inhumanity of all violent conflict. The same can be said of any soldier dying today for twisted, hardly traceable reasons caused by others who are never in the trenches....
have u actually listened to or read the lyrics to this song??! how has it got nothing to do with troubles in this country or any other?? ur missing the whole point. its from the outsiders perspective of any war or troubles. he's not trying to make you hate anyone,its a beautiful song.
@angel939x Did you mean to direct that post at me? If you did you've either read my post wrong or misinterpreted what I was trying say: I was agreeing with the point that this song was making, I definitely wasn't trying to suggest that it was making me hate anyone.
If I remember correctly my post on this vid was in four parts, the part voted to the top there was the 3rd I think. The rest are on here somewhere, read them and you'll see what I mean.
he wasnt singing about who started what or who did what to who, he was more aiming at how fruitless the whole situation is. it is supposed to show that the most basic aspects of life, such as getting a girl/falling in love were/are tainted by the troubles. last verse talking about freedom-supposed to make you think about wether or not the methods used to achieve freedom really bring it, or just changing from one brute a thousand miles away to a thousand brutes 1 mile away.
he still missed the reality of the situation, as the vast majority do. The British government actively prolonged the 'troubles' because it served their interests. The British government was the aggressor, justice and right was on the side of the IRA, as is usually the case in such struggles.
we all know that.. thats not the point he was making though. dont get me wrong im a republican, i agree with what your saying, but it you have to separate england's wrongdoings from Ireland's wrongdoings to understand this song.. its a song about an average guy who just wants to live a normal life
Yes it's always just and right to shoot people in the back and blow up children. At least that's the philosophy of the IRA scumbags; just like the Taliban!
You're misinformed. British soldiers, specifically the SAS, were responsible for the random sectarian killings in Belfast, and the bombings that killed civilians. Why would even consider anything coming from the British government as trustworthy?
@regdavies yeah and it's allright for brit's to shoot innocent derry civilians with rubber and live bullet's.The irish never did anything to the brit's just cause we were a smaller country i dont see them going against country's that's bigger then them.All Hail the I.R.A.
People used to talk about Northern Ireland and the Middle East in the same breath - just two problems that can never be solved - but the Irish found a way to peace. I think the world is only now starting to realize that this war really is over now. That must provide hope and inspiration to those around the world who are willing, after so many failed attempts, to push for peace one more time. Well done, my Irish cousins.
dem orange cunts robbed our fore fathers of thier lives so how can u say dat? jus look at poor bobby just t mention one.. read ur history... nothing good came out of englang... jus watch brave haerth.... who ar u?
Like usual, you all are making it about your troubles. Stop using this video as a place to post your differences. And just enjoy the music purely and simply like it was intended.
If this song does not pull at your heart and make you stop then you will never see the issues with the world. Learn from the past, and we shall create a greater future. I find myself paused in movement, the moment I hear the starting bars of this song.
the year was 1985 and here we are here and yes we sacrafice our children to emagration , as have past generations for wars,for freedom ,have we learned nothing, we tightened our belts charlie haughey, now we pay for greece , the cycle comes around again, all we have is the sound of the ocean , eternity and love
just readin some of these comments Seems we have still got a long way to go nobody wins war just lots of pain and sufferin so much blood has been spilled already on both sides of this i dont wanna cause any disrespect lets remember and honour the dead with peace and Great songs like this one they remind us violence is not the answer Thanks Paul for a Great Great song peace
Its not even close. This guy is fantastic. Keiths version is nice, if you like the boyband thing, brady is outstanding. Nobody else can do this or any other song he wrote or rewrote justice.
Paul's actually not from Londonderry he's from Strabane.....never the less its a pretty amazing and poignant song. He sings bout people "sacrificing our children to feed the worn out dreams of yesterday" .......people need to leave the past in the past and all of us move on together.
@Frankieireland Yeah I remember when this song was released, It really struck a cord at the time and still resonates today. Thank god we are in a better place, There is no place like home.
Peace and Love win in our hearts freedom is there. We need this song to acknowledge the trajic losses of all the years on all the sides, to save our children from our hateful pasts. Thank you Paul Brady from the bottom and whole of my heart. The Bloodied White Flag on a civilian street should never have happened.
Worth listening to this one once in a while to remember the bitterness (in every sense) of our recent past and just why all the compromises of the last decade are worth it.
At the end of the day it came down to feeing your family or starving. Eitherway we should be proud of them, if it wasnt for the Irish,Welsh, Scottish, Indians and many more were would all be goose stepping from Belfast to Cork. 200 years history is nothing when you look forward into the hell that could have been!
very good
popeye84873 3 weeks ago
T.AL , BRILL SONG TOWARDS DA BRITS...T.A.L
SEAJEA6560 3 weeks ago
oops , soory for da bursting of the channel..lol
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SEAJEA6560 3 weeks ago
Im a songwriter as well, we need those sad songs of loyalists killin catholics , Thank god for the "RA"
SEAJEA6560 3 weeks ago
Crack is Back,!!! "Ahem, I thought u never went away ...hehehe", hows it goin me bold auld muscle !!, hows ur mam keepin , i know ur dad died , so dont take me as a snotty nose kid waiting for a Tissue, Happy New Year to u and urs ...!!!
SEAJEA6560 3 weeks ago
Easy for Brady to sing it. People who lived in those times have a different view. Brady fecked-off to London and pontificated about peace from a safe distance. Good song, but I don't believe him.
montpelier42d 1 month ago
@montpelier42d I'm pretty sure such an amazing song could not have written without there being an element of personal truth behind its genius.
cormaccrawley 1 month ago
No more beautiful anti-political anti-violence song/poem has been penned.. the man is a blessing..
hardlywill 1 month ago
AMAZING! GOES STRAIGHT TO THE HEART!
crny925 1 month ago
"The Island" - wrong spelling, brilliant song
Johnty54 1 month ago
Beautiful song. Thank you for posting
indigofugit 1 month ago
this is a true love song,, love of the Human Race...
johnhookinheadschnei 1 month ago
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TheQueenmaude 2 months ago
Listen to the words people and forget about your own point of view. We all have one
TheQueenmaude 2 months ago
This song always has me in tears.
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TheDean180 3 months ago
such a beautiful song as a proud ulster man from the shankill road, this song has taught me to stop feeling bitter and secterian and take people as i find them, and no matter were you go north or south it's beutiful island full of friendly people, the last thing I want is a united ireland which i feel it's what this song is aiming for but hey who cares deano lol 1862
TheDean180 3 months ago
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Hey Deano,,,,,,respect cousin!!!! stay lucky,,,
southern tim,,,
wetsail2008 3 months ago
@TheDean180 I don't think it's about a united ireland, i think it's purely anti violence which we can all appreciate. Nice message otherwise though.
Frankieireland 2 months ago in playlist Folk - new
song says so much so true, paul bradys animal love him
masterdeagocop 3 months ago in playlist song
Ireland un-free shall never be at peace , dis is wat da song speaks ....nice up-loading , thankin ya for da time .
SEAJEA6560 3 months ago
@SEAJEA6560 You couldnt be more wrong, this song is about whether its a united or a north south ireland is irrelevant, we are missing the human suffering that both causes are inflicting on both sides.
As he said is the twisted wreakage down on mainstreet going to get us to freedom? It is a beautiful song about how we ruin others lives with what we percieve to be right.
lelylandsklar 2 months ago
@lelylandsklar , of course its all about war !!, its da same as afghanistan , iraq , and tim-buck -fuckin too, like !!!, who needs war to solve der rights !!, children and women have been bombed all over da world , and dat der is suppose to be for peace , from UK, and Da States , hes talkin about dem all..its called "Freedom". Ta for da post!!
SEAJEA6560 2 months ago
nice wonderful song
tigerbrown1210 4 months ago
timeless.
mertz123 4 months ago
@mertz123 always will be
manfredstiefenhofer 4 months ago
He looks like Brick-Top
timmots 5 months ago
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Beautiful!!!
HorusBredevoort 6 months ago
@HorusBredevoort : yes, but very bitter lyrics.
ritchierhoads 5 months ago
Beautiful song!
unbeatable1966 6 months ago
Those young rascals in Belfast still haven't understood in 2011 what Paul Brady was singing about some twentyfive years ago. Please love thy neighbour and love your beautiful country, be it Northern Ireland or the republic. You live in paradise; please don't turn it into hell again!
desolexnl 6 months ago
those young boys dying in the ditches says it all for me what a waste of life for green fields
davidtigertaylor 7 months ago 2
Celtic Thunder brought this song to my attention, sorry Paul, Im an expat in Spain but I love Irish music, but this one slipped through the net. A wonderfully worded song with a unique melody. Well done, it deserves recognition.
Rhinosince59 9 months ago 2
Nice
connopv 9 months ago
Perfection musicale. Thanks Paul
nondescript11 9 months ago
A lot of racist bile from Irish folks on here
fittonhillbilly 9 months ago
FANTASTIC SONG!!
setenteromusic 9 months ago
Northern Ireland would still choose to be Brits- Why
nanny999999 9 months ago
...amazing...
Smoke4Freedom 9 months ago
i love the way paul is a fantastic guitarist as well as singer and songwriter. a rare combination of talents!
MrSkeff 10 months ago
This song puts me to sleep every night. It reminds me of bad times and bad people from my time in northern ireland, iraq and afghanistan and then out of nowhere someone amazing comes into your life. Perfection.
gary384 10 months ago
@gary384 This is one of the sweetest comments I have red here by this beautiful song.
DirkjeA 7 months ago
Superb.
First saw PB @The irish Centre in Leeds, UK, many years ago. He was great then & has been great every time I have seen him since.
He is the man about whom Bob Dylan said: "He is the one songwriter worth getting out of bed to listen to."
Praise indeed from the Maestro himself!
TerrySleeper 10 months ago
brillant brillant
mizzamy12 10 months ago
I'm 21 years of age, straight male, i'm listenin to this cryin thinkin of the shit that goes on in the world, Paul, probably don't see this, but it'd honor me if you came to play in Wexford !
Wexicanful 10 months ago 8
@Wexicanful it was never meant to be a sad song, it was never his intention listen more carefully
crokiecola 1 month ago
"Turn your back on your own." Ironic how that could be taken in Lybia today. I get that I'm probably taking that out of text but it still applies. :( / I never have heard of him until today. Wonderful and I don't care if my housework doesn't get done. I'm sitting here until I've heard everything he's done on YT. Thanks Inde for sharing. :)
Songsmirth 10 months ago
how come yer man knew mairead was out of prison
dcconsi 10 months ago
Paul Brady is saying that he is not interested in the Irish conflict; he simply wants to fuck someone on a beach.
montpelier42d 11 months ago
A brilliant song love it!
Paddyeire11 11 months ago
gosh i missed my father...
Gloovyglow 11 months ago
missing home......thank you Paul.......proud to be Irish and hopefully I can go back home something soon....
KeithGreville 11 months ago
just staggeringly gorgeous
MrBrianojee 11 months ago
I became aware of his music working at The Irish Pub in Tampa. Songs and Crazy Dreams was the cd, surely the most inspirational and brilliant work of genius that my ears will ever enjoy. All other recordings pale in comparison. But hey, that's just me....
dt2717 1 year ago 4
Reading some of these bitter comments about a lump of turf we're only gonna be on for 80 odd years, it's hard to believe that we're in the 21st century, the time of enlightenment and maturity for mankind!
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olensuher 1 year ago
why did ye have to ruin a savage song talking shite about politics which ye dont have a clue about
jackmcgrath1995 1 year ago
Paul Brady played no part in the heroic People’s Democracy at Queen’s University, Belfast. In this song he makes comment on the N.Ireland, an issue he carefully avoided when he was a student at Queens. When other students, such a Michael Farrell and Bernadette McAliskey, put their necks on the line, Paul Brady hide in his room. Paul Brady’s ‘Island’ is about himself – a self-regarding, anal-retentive, navel-gazing pompous shite. He never had the guts to act on what he sings.
montpelier42d 1 year ago
@montpelier42d although i except that you know what your talking about, why cant you take a song for a song and not what the writer was involved in when writing it? it's a great song (melodicaly and lyricaly) whatever way you look at it.
10benson 1 year ago
@montpelier42d
Don't be silly. Not everybody goes out on the front line and God bless those who do for their courage. But it is the artists' job to make the people aware of what is going on through his/her art. And this Paul Brady does admirably with this sad and beautiful song. Often these types of songs drive the people on to the streets. So don't knock our artists please, we need them just as much as the soldiers.
MABMCC 11 months ago
@MABMCC The job of the artist is not to ‘make people aware of what is going on’ I can understand why people like the song: beautiful melody, and who could disagree with his message of pacifism? Only those, perhaps, who were ineluctably engaged in the reality of the conflict. Other Irish artists, such as Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel and Thomas Kinsella, et al, wrote about the conflict in honest, meaningful and inspiring ways. Perhaps because they had no interest in selling pop records.
montpelier42d 11 months ago 2
@montpelier42d I thought he went to UCD in Dublin!
JMGALL 5 months ago
@montpelier42d I thought he went to UCD in Dublin!
JMGALL 5 months ago
the rope is getting longer ha ha...
jaybenny100 1 year ago
17 people are terrorists
markgarnish 1 year ago
Irish sons and daughters are still here to fight brit oppression , fuck all yous cunts dat ran to dat island ...Eh
SEAJEA6560 1 year ago
@SEAJEA6560 What a stupid ignorant little shit you are.
seanhennessy 1 year ago
To be free is to ave peace , Im proud to be irish , and rightly so , we will fight and defend our land from "Nasties", Paul brady is a magic Musician from da land of "Eire", he has heard it all before , Da promises , etc, So stand up and fight for ur rights, or run away to an island dats free...End of ..T.A.L
SEAJEA6560 1 year ago
Da Ra hasnt gone away ya know Kaybannon, ok dey were stopped on tues night , so ur point ur tryin to make ??, IRELAND-UNFREE shall never be at peace
SEAJEA6560 1 year ago
@SEAJEA6560 Actually, Irelands peace has nothing do with being 'FREE' or 'UNFREE'. When we get rid of the idiot mentality from retards like you we'll be at peace. When is it going to sink in....? YOU (and your terrorist/criminal friends) ARE NOT WANTED!
A Nation is defined by it's people. The people of Ireland do not want this 'war'. But idiots like you do... therefore, you should not consider yourself Irish. You are of some kind of 'Non-Irish' person.
ScottyEire 1 year ago
This song just makes me cry. It is so beautiful.
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gunomun88 1 year ago
the lyrics always fits, no matter what nation or what time (sry for my bad english, i'm german)
TheSitara 1 year ago
@TheSitara Very true, it can be applied to so many places and so many scenarios. The futility of war... It's sad that so many people leaving comments on this video miss the point though.
cameramanAL 1 year ago
A song more true with every listening...
jamesinparis2 1 year ago
my mam loved this tune she died 02/12/2005such a lady she was dolores O'Rourke r.i.p never 4get u mam never
77tjmurphy 1 year ago 47
@77tjmurphy Im sure she is in a far better island now my friend.Think not of how she died rather remember how she lived and you will meet her there again when its time,,,chin up :D
amadain462 11 months ago
EH cjrmd prick!!! What about the GERMANS!!! We may have committed crimes in the past!! What about the fact you bombed the British mainland while we were fighting the Germans!! If we had not stood up to a greater power you would be speaking GERMAN now!!! Mind you< you lot would probably prefer that!!! NOW get off your perch and grow up!! Why dont you go and bomb China, if feel strong enough about human rights!! Enough said
cissactiger 1 year ago
Lov when he sings about da war wit da brits ...Uppa RA ..Paul.
SEAJEA6560 1 year ago
@SEAJEA6560
where's the RA now?? why are the not bombing Gov Buildings???????????????
kaybannon 1 year ago
ledgend!
shellypie88ie 1 year ago
Just a brilliant song
Foxyarse2 1 year ago
This song is so beautiful and powerful ! It's always the same old story, innocent blood is still flowing all over the world to feed political and economical interests !!! how long will it last ?
JOSSELINCARLIER 1 year ago 3
@JOSSELINCARLIER
''how long will it last''?
As long as human beings want to be better than their neighbours.
smrndoff 1 year ago 16
@smrndoff As long as Northern Ireland is occupied by the Brits.
Smoke4Freedom 9 months ago
@Smoke4Freedom If every town in N. Ireland independently voted whether to join Ireland then wouldn't that be a fair and peacful way for every community to individually choose what they want?
Smoke4Freedom 9 months ago
@Smoke4Freedom Brits should let them get on with it............
nanny999999 9 months ago
@Smoke4Freedom Thats what Northern Ireland want .......... Why who knows
Ireland should be Ireland the Brits are not interested Its Irish fighting Irish Why
nanny999999 9 months ago
@nanny999999 My ideal would be the whole British Isles; Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Britain, Cornwall, N. Ireland etc. as autonomous yet united governments under a united Celtic tanist society where everyone speaks a universal gealic, no one gives a crap about whose land's whose, where there ain't any armies or capitalist threat... something like that but pretty damn far fetched that is.
Smoke4Freedom 9 months ago
Your an Idealist, I like that. And I too would like to live in a world where we all get along and sing "kum by ya" around the campfire while the sun sets, but you know that can't happen, nor has it ever happened anywhere. The reason is an equation. (British=Dicks) Which is something we don't stop to think about much, but this is a people who formed SEVERAL countries by raping them until they couldn't take anymore. And for the Irish to forget that, would be blacks to forgeting slavery. NOPE
loismustdie475 9 months ago
@loismustdie475 Haha, I live in England atm (by accident, lol). The rudest, worst mannered people in England are the English themselves! All foreigners have been very polite, the blacks are the most polite British-born here.
How different, and better, the world could have been if English culture hadn't been shat all over it. India, would have been amazingly different, Ireland too, imagine seeing N. America run under the Native American customs rather than some twisted ex-Brit idealogies.
Smoke4Freedom 9 months ago 2
@Smoke4Freedom How can you live there by accident????!!By the way, North America was shat on by the French and Spanish also,to name a few.
hollywilo 8 months ago
@hollywilo Yep, native americans had it hard, i feel so bad, they should be given back a big chunk of each Nrth. American state so they can all develop their cultures and languages again rather than being stuck on those dead soil reservations, those places are proper ghettos. Sad.
I went over to take care of family, ,was ill, spent all my money, one thing led to another. Havent been able to get back since. Plus dont have anywhere to move back to nor any chance of work if I do.
Smoke4Freedom 8 months ago
@loismustdie475 'Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it', let us not forget. White people say move on, you wouldn't say that to a Jew, eh?
Smoke4Freedom 8 months ago
@Smoke4Freedom
People from Northern Ireland are more British than the English - they dont want to be Irish how strange -Let them get on with it
nanny999999 9 months ago
@nanny999999
What? that's a pretty fucking stupid thing to say! people who know as little as you should not be permitted to write on youtube.
ODIEMCL 8 months ago
Paul Brady Crazy Dreams Great Music
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JOSSELINCARLIER 1 year ago
@ jethro081 The democratic will of the people the last and only time the island of Ireland voted democraticly was 1919 when they voted for total independence, the slaughter started and continued after that by a country unwilling to remove its illegal occupation beidh ar lá linn.
monaghaned 1 year ago
here i am
crazydiamond565 1 year ago
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I hate the occupation of Ireland and many countries by evil empires there will always be sarcrafice for freedom Beidh ar lá linn
monaghaned 1 year ago
I hate the occupation of Ireland any many countries by evil empires there will always be sarcrafice for freedom
monaghaned 1 year ago
@monaghaned what is freedom? what does it look like? what will it change? im genuinely interested, please enlighten me as to what is worth the slaughter and the destruction of the troubles.
jethro081 1 year ago
The song is universal; not just about "the troubles" in Ireland, but about the waste, cruelty, and inhumanity of all violent conflict. The same can be said of any soldier dying today for twisted, hardly traceable reasons caused by others who are never in the trenches....
bewren 1 year ago 2
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have u actually listened to or read the lyrics to this song??! how has it got nothing to do with troubles in this country or any other?? ur missing the whole point. its from the outsiders perspective of any war or troubles. he's not trying to make you hate anyone,its a beautiful song.
angel939x 1 year ago
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cameramanAL 1 year ago
@angel939x Did you mean to direct that post at me? If you did you've either read my post wrong or misinterpreted what I was trying say: I was agreeing with the point that this song was making, I definitely wasn't trying to suggest that it was making me hate anyone.
If I remember correctly my post on this vid was in four parts, the part voted to the top there was the 3rd I think. The rest are on here somewhere, read them and you'll see what I mean.
cameramanAL 1 year ago
@angel939x you ask "how has it got nothing to do with troubles in this country or any other??"
I'm sorry but I didn't say anything like that at all, I said the exact opposite in fact.
cameramanAL 1 year ago
Another one of my most favourite songs from Irish artists..... relaxing and dreamy :)
sexsixpak 1 year ago
always loved this ...great song well sung !!
potrezeb1 1 year ago
In writing this song, Brady was totally missing the truth about 'the troubles'
seosamh1921 1 year ago
@seosamh1921
he wasnt singing about who started what or who did what to who, he was more aiming at how fruitless the whole situation is. it is supposed to show that the most basic aspects of life, such as getting a girl/falling in love were/are tainted by the troubles. last verse talking about freedom-supposed to make you think about wether or not the methods used to achieve freedom really bring it, or just changing from one brute a thousand miles away to a thousand brutes 1 mile away.
darragh84 1 year ago
@darragh84
he still missed the reality of the situation, as the vast majority do. The British government actively prolonged the 'troubles' because it served their interests. The British government was the aggressor, justice and right was on the side of the IRA, as is usually the case in such struggles.
seosamh1921 1 year ago
@seosamh1921
we all know that.. thats not the point he was making though. dont get me wrong im a republican, i agree with what your saying, but it you have to separate england's wrongdoings from Ireland's wrongdoings to understand this song.. its a song about an average guy who just wants to live a normal life
darragh84 1 year ago
@seosamh1921
Yes it's always just and right to shoot people in the back and blow up children. At least that's the philosophy of the IRA scumbags; just like the Taliban!
regdavies 1 year ago
@regdavies
You're misinformed. British soldiers, specifically the SAS, were responsible for the random sectarian killings in Belfast, and the bombings that killed civilians. Why would even consider anything coming from the British government as trustworthy?
seosamh1921 1 year ago
@regdavies yeah and it's allright for brit's to shoot innocent derry civilians with rubber and live bullet's.The irish never did anything to the brit's just cause we were a smaller country i dont see them going against country's that's bigger then them.All Hail the I.R.A.
cjrmd10 1 year ago
Beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful.
Greatest anti-war song ever.
malismad 1 year ago
amazing
geniennis 1 year ago
Listen ballbeg I grew up in the middle of this an done my bit but it's over you knob now grow up and don't mess it up for are kids
jimdh67 1 year ago
just a beautiful song
wrekinfolk 1 year ago
just a beautiful song.
wrekinfolk 1 year ago
People used to talk about Northern Ireland and the Middle East in the same breath - just two problems that can never be solved - but the Irish found a way to peace. I think the world is only now starting to realize that this war really is over now. That must provide hope and inspiration to those around the world who are willing, after so many failed attempts, to push for peace one more time. Well done, my Irish cousins.
sevenwarlox 1 year ago 2
dem orange cunts robbed our fore fathers of thier lives so how can u say dat? jus look at poor bobby just t mention one.. read ur history... nothing good came out of englang... jus watch brave haerth.... who ar u?
059farrell 1 year ago
I'm an Irish catholic an yes you come across like you have a chip on your shoulder wise up and get on with life
jimdh67 1 year ago
I love this song. It reminds me of happy times!
stephenwhite2003 1 year ago
The look Mr. Brady gives at the end....I hear the unspoken words.
ShellyPhotography 1 year ago
heard this on the radio today .and just had to have another listen .beautiful lyrics and melody
framethis 1 year ago
Paul have you heard keith Harkin of the Celtic Thunder sing your song? You wouldn;' be disappointed.... loved it Judi
845arm 1 year ago
Like usual, you all are making it about your troubles. Stop using this video as a place to post your differences. And just enjoy the music purely and simply like it was intended.
NicholasParnell 1 year ago
one of the greatest songs ever
TheSitara 1 year ago
I wish we would have the same perspective in America: Christians vs. Muslims.
ctrimm 1 year ago
excellent performance!
tps607 1 year ago 2
A friend of a friend told me about this song.
Totally awesome :D
junglemuffin 1 year ago
Paul .. your dimples are looking as good as ever.. thank you!
alexandraANN1 1 year ago
Sadly how much has changed since this was first created? How much is still the same?
questionsleadtotruth 1 year ago
great song
OliverHealy 1 year ago
If this song does not pull at your heart and make you stop then you will never see the issues with the world. Learn from the past, and we shall create a greater future. I find myself paused in movement, the moment I hear the starting bars of this song.
TheClassicDame 1 year ago
Beautiful and poignant!
beesting148 1 year ago
ya let me down byrne!!bigtime!
john665915 1 year ago
Yeah the words still resonate, thank god we are in a better place.
TheJennim 1 year ago
brilliant..
Laineylaino 1 year ago
great performance
emeraldpegasus 1 year ago
I am from cork too, fuck the subject.....
I know this song a long time....
I can't believe it has only had 230,000 views....
...no way our holy flag is gonna fall..
Bobby Sands R.I.P.
ferguslong 1 year ago
In 2010 this song still resonates.
ctw1966 1 year ago
the year was 1985 and here we are here and yes we sacrafice our children to emagration , as have past generations for wars,for freedom ,have we learned nothing, we tightened our belts charlie haughey, now we pay for greece , the cycle comes around again, all we have is the sound of the ocean , eternity and love
MrMightymo39 1 year ago
One of the finest songs written about this subject ever!
chrisbannisterone 1 year ago
i know dis one cool corcaigh lol
navrats 1 year ago
one of the most beautiful songs ever written..true genius. thanks for posting this version.
girrrty 1 year ago
Paul Brady understands what the internet and music is about .
mrsinn 1 year ago
Fantastic.
caravaneriam 1 year ago
LOVE THIS SONG
ColmHinds112 1 year ago
just readin some of these comments Seems we have still got a long way to go nobody wins war just lots of pain and sufferin so much blood has been spilled already on both sides of this i dont wanna cause any disrespect lets remember and honour the dead with peace and Great songs like this one they remind us violence is not the answer Thanks Paul for a Great Great song peace
MrRobbie1916 1 year ago
Stop arguing.. we're all one. Its about the music.. and this song amazing. ENd off.
TheLauraStanley 1 year ago
A better version of this song is by Celtic Thunder
frogbreeder1 1 year ago
Its not even close. This guy is fantastic. Keiths version is nice, if you like the boyband thing, brady is outstanding. Nobody else can do this or any other song he wrote or rewrote justice.
aftermath842 1 year ago
Lezmitchell you say we should leave the past in the past and yet you refer to it as "LONDONDERRY",......... Jog on will ya,its DERRY.........
glennquinn2002 1 year ago 11
Lezmitchell,u said leave the past in the past and yet you still refer to it as "LONDONDERRY"...............Jog on will ya!! its Derry.........
glennquinn2002 1 year ago
Absolute genius. I love this song and Paul Brady.
Gaelic10 1 year ago
Paul's actually not from Londonderry he's from Strabane.....never the less its a pretty amazing and poignant song. He sings bout people "sacrificing our children to feed the worn out dreams of yesterday" .......people need to leave the past in the past and all of us move on together.
lezmitchell 1 year ago
Shove it up your London derriere.
John27346 1 year ago
i got shivers up my spine listening to this, i'm from the same city as paul and to have such a musician coming from derry makes me very proud
fordey22 1 year ago
Powerful lyrics. "up here we sacrifice our children..." Thank god those days are gone. Éireann abú.
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karambelas1 1 year ago
These lyrics apply to any war! What abut the women and children still dying in the streets today in the middle east.
karambelas1 1 year ago
alright buddy. I'm just talking about the war in my country. I don't need to be told what i already know about the rest of the world. calm down.
Frankieireland 1 year ago 2
@Frankieireland Yeah I remember when this song was released, It really struck a cord at the time and still resonates today. Thank god we are in a better place, There is no place like home.
TheJennim 1 year ago
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I dont like the way he sings it. he just says the words it sounds dumb. celtic thunder sings it better
btrulli93 1 year ago
Peace and Love win in our hearts freedom is there. We need this song to acknowledge the trajic losses of all the years on all the sides, to save our children from our hateful pasts. Thank you Paul Brady from the bottom and whole of my heart. The Bloodied White Flag on a civilian street should never have happened.
TheHearthathReason 1 year ago
Worth listening to this one once in a while to remember the bitterness (in every sense) of our recent past and just why all the compromises of the last decade are worth it.
zx80user 1 year ago
My Favourite Paul Brady Song
tubelookjohn 1 year ago
exceptional ?
robertwhiteemail 2 years ago
One of the most beautiful ballad songs I'v ever heard..please don't tell me it's not a.....beautiful song
boscoesarmy 2 years ago
At the end of the day it came down to feeing your family or starving. Eitherway we should be proud of them, if it wasnt for the Irish,Welsh, Scottish, Indians and many more were would all be goose stepping from Belfast to Cork. 200 years history is nothing when you look forward into the hell that could have been!
pmck101 2 years ago
Paul is truely a gifted composer the ordinary guy on the street gets the massage ..its a pity the politicians dont
framethis 2 years ago 2
An t-amhrán is álainn ar an domhan domsa. Cuireann sé brón agus trua orm, ach dóchas freisin. Agus sea, is an íomhá é Martin McGuinness!!!!
ciarogciarogeile 2 years ago
just enjoy the music, the quiet reflective passion give