im from an asian country.. far away from scotland and ireland. but i love bagpipes and the music from these lands. people find me weird over here and say i got no taste in music.. fuck them. this music is beautiful.
Bagpipes are a family of instruments originating in the middle east and spread westward and northward into Europe along old trade routes. Nearly every ethnic group in Europe has or had a bagpipes tradition with its own unique take on the design concept. The Irish and Scots were johnny-come-latelys to piping, as piping traditions had existed in the Med since the time of Nero.
Yaaaaaay, You know how to type "bagpipe" in Wikipedia. How about you just relax and enjoy the good tune instead of trying to give a history lesson that we don't care about.
@piobairesicago It's debatable about where the bagpipe started,but it's known that the celts had bagpipes long before Nero came on thescene - the roman mention their din on the battlefield many times (& I don't just mean the carynx).Ancient Irish legends also speak of the "Fir Bolg", who it's conjectured also had bagpipes.This would place them at least before 3-500BC.You have to remember that that the Celts spread from the Alps to eastern europe & even Anatolia, as well as the W.
@SlaineOz conjectured, not proven. The "bag" referenced in the name of the Fir Bolg could be as easily be a shamanic talisman. The point is you don't know, I don't know, nobody knows because the EVIDENCE doesn't exist. The Celts were an oral culture that left no written records; all we have left of their culture are burial goods and few other odds and ends, none of which contain a depiction of bagpipes.
@piobairesicago And as for the Romans mentioning Celts playing bagpipes - Gauls of Western Europe, specifically - go ahead and find me a citation in an actual ancient Roman or Greek source.
Yeah the Uilleann pipes are Irish. The Highland bagpipes have a much harsher sound. Ireland has its own island haha. Scotland does not, it shares it with 2 other nations.
These bagpipes are Irish. I know because it's explained on Braveheart DVD. Irish ones are more melodic than Scottish ones. This is what someone (Mel Gibson or James Horner ) comments about this part.
@1995Scotsman Who gives a flying f--- what the general populations think? They don't know the difference because they don't PLAY them. Ignorance is not, and will never be, superior to knowledge! It's not even equivalent!
@frafa84 I learned that when i was in Ireland. We were listening to a man playing the Irish bag-pipe and he told us that the bag-pipes heard in Brave were not Scottish, but Irish.
it's a very nice piece off music only it's funny when you watch the movie you see the great highland bagpipe and you hear the uilian bagpipes ( the irish one, with the bellow)... :-)
this is really emotional no matter from where we come from this opens my eyes to the horror of what cruel king edward was putting scotland through and how he treated the lifes of all the highlanders. although i am english but if i had being a noble man back then i would of not being as cruel but in fact of said to my own men and said if they did wrong they would of being punished the same way as a perosn who had assaulted the kings men
This will play on my departure from this planet....Simply the most beautiful song I have ever heard. The song that captures, the song that sings, the song that says and tells the stories of my life and of my death. I cry and rejoice. I pray to my fathers, I pray to my mothers, and I weep for the lost, I weep for those that live without sight, and I weep because I will never amount to those that have brought me into this life. Fight for youe freedoms
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God be praised, Alba Gu Bragh! never was there a more truer individual who fought for a nations true identity, and released it from the shackles of English oppression. Long live William Wallace!
@Dwimerytguy Pretty retarded to say that when Muslims were light years ahead of Dark Age Europeans when it came to philosophy, science, technology, medicine and of course, personal hygiene. Not so long ago, white people were the savages of the earth.
@BronzeBullBalls Not so true my friend. Although I have nothing but respect for the Islamic arts and philosophy they are not the oldest. Not by a long shot. You can start educating yourself by looking up Newgrange and the Cygnus enigma. over 1000 years before the Egyptian pyramids, the Irish had built an observatory. No lie, No Myth, it is a fact preserved in stone
@rodeocyclone Perhaps, but demographically speaking, Muslim countries have more young people and make more babies. The West has a very old population and most of our population growth rate is due to immigration and their babies. A generation or two from now, Germans, Franks, Irish and the rest will be almost extinct.
@BronzeBullBalls You're speaking of the dark ages which really only spread the entirety of europe as christianity spread. pre-christian europe it is well recorded among historians that ancient scandinavians and other heathen men were more popular among the "civilized" women due to the fact that pagan men were better groomed, healthier, and had better hygeine than their counterparts in the cities. pagan philosophy also preserved vast knowledge of plants, animals, astronomy, etc.
@Kberiotwhn Not really. For example, the lore and knowledge that the Church used in the field of medicine was passed down from the Greeks and Romans. Clergy men who went to university were taught the old ways of doing things, as handed down from the books and writings of Greek and Roman philosophers. Their practice of using shit and piss to cure diseases is one example. The Church didn't invent that practice, they continued it from the ancient europeans.
finally i found this music!!!!! Every time i typed in braveheart funeral or something similar it doesn't show up or i get the main theme. But THIS is what I want to hear. Absolutely amazing music!
I disagree, it doesn't take a Celt to enjoy such a beautiful piece. All worldly cultures have their tastes, but wolves aren't the only race that enjoy meat.
Proud to be a quarter Scottish, been to Scotland many times walk through the highlands. My second favourite country in the world, god bless the scots hopefully their'll gain independence as they should.
One of the most beautiful things ive ever heard. Im English, its shit, i dunno why anybody tried to defend its name, its a dump of a country, Scotland and Ireland should be free of the clutches of the government and monarchy, they just drag everybody down, thats why ive moved to Australia. The Auzzies actually ask if im Irish (I have a strong regional geordie accent that they mistake for Irish), but I actually like them mistaking it, i have some celtic blood in my, so im proud of my Irish decent
Not just Northern European or Celtic, laddie. Any European-blooded kinfolk will be brought to tears to this song. Slav and Greek and Roman all, in their blood flows Europe.
@HeavyMetalRedneck666 Im so glad you say North-European! Im Norwegian and i love Skandinavià and both Ireland and Scotland!
Free yourself from the Imperialist facist dogs of the European Union!
Hail from the mountains of Norway to my Celtic and North - European brothers and sisters!
Freedom!!
(PS: My name is not Inger.. thats my little sister and its her profile.. my name is Gunnar. So if any EU facist want to write negative commentaries... do it in a gentle way!.. if you can!)
Irish or scottish, both have the pride and honour of the celts of old in our veins. RIP to our lost loved ones, and God be with us all. Eirinn go bragh!
@MrJoshuaPadraig Since the Ulster Gaels settled in Dal Riada in Pictland and, five hundred years later, created Alba when Kenneth macAlpin married the daughter of the Pictish king and became first king of Scots.
The Ulster Gaels settled in Dal Riada does that make Scotland pretty much Celtic now?
If so we could class England a land of Celts. 25% of the English population are Irish immigrants. 6 Million who's Grandparents were born in Ireland and over 1 Million who hold Irish Passports. Does that make England a land of Celts?
I'm not trolling, i'm just trying to put some light on the misconception that Scotland holds the same weight as Ireland in it's Celtic Heritage.
@MrJoshuaPadraig Scotland, a land dominated by celtic groups: Scotti-Gaels(from Ireland), Picts north of the forth & britons of the lowlands. Angles in the south-eastern lowlands(scottish borders) & a drop of norse in there too much like Ireland & England.
When picts arrived in british isles, they were met in Ulster by Irish/Scotti Gaels who provided the picts with wives, gaelic wives. Scots today are most likely descendants of predominantly Gaels+picts. Celtic in essence.
@MrJoshuaPadraig the picts were a celtic tribe, even tho they were pagans before converting to christianity, they spoke a byrthonic language, and celtic artwork is based on early pictish carvings
@Chikin1ninjas Indeed you are correct. Beautiful pipe music but this song is NOT played on the Great Highland Bagpipe as portrayed in the movie by highland pipers.
my grandfather died about 10 years ago now. one of the best ad most respectable men who walked scotland. this song gets me teary eyed and reminds me of him. he died of bone cancer... and still ad the strength to hang on until mine and my sisters birthday. and he's never missed one since.. r.i.p grampa x
I am American. No hint of Scottish, Irish, or any other UK in my background. Mostly German. But DAMN, these pipes are beautiful, wherever your ears are from.
and of course they were dressed in what was traditional Highland dress of the time. That is the belted plaid. The fact that Highland Dress changed over the years is by the by. The Highland Companies were formed and greatly expanded by the Scottish govt and later as Scottish Regiments were incorporated within the British army. They do not owe their existence to England though! A good read is "the Independent Highland Companies 1603-1760" by Peter Simpson for a lowdown on the earlier days
Because Jacobitism often equated with Catholcism elsewhere the Scottish Jacobites wanted to ensure they weren't viewed as a Catholic army so they refused to enter England until Charles had stripped any Catholic officers of their command.
@gaconnochie Perception rules reality. It is what is believed that matters. We see that today. Confusing issues is a weapon as powerful as a gun. It was fear of Catholicism returning by the ruling elite that helped the defeat of the Stuarts. The average Brit, in those days, was too concerned with surviving than who ruled. They were pawns in the hands of the religious/political divide - north of the border, or south. (Have things changed in our world?)
The last land battle fought in Britain was in1746 between the highlanders under Prince Charles (bonnie Prince Charlie) who wanted to regain the British throne under Catholicism and the rest, of Britain who wanted to remain Protestant.
Charles was defeated at Culloden. But the skirl of pipes could be heard coming from the English lines played by the Campbell's who were Protestant
So really it was a religious war and divided the Scots as well as the English Not a war of England v Scotland
@Cordeman You have a point in that there was a religious element. The Pretenders were Catholic but they had no declared intention to turn Britain Catholic. Within Scotland there were some Catholic clans who came out - but there weren't very many Catholics in Scotland. The real religious divide was between protestant sects. The bulk of the Hanovarians were Presbyterians and the bulk of the Jacobites were Episcopalians (ie Scottish Anglicans) and the in fighting had been going on since the 1640s.
To address the recent comments made about Wallace and Scotland (PART 5):
All in all, William Wallace and his army were great men that died for a great cause, Freedom from Tyranny (the only reason a scot at any time invaded England was because of English tyranny), and should only be given the highest praise and respect.
To address the recent comments made about Wallace and Scotland (PART 4): Some claims have been made that Wallace himself wanted to be king based of his execution charges that say he falsely claimed to be King of Scotland, but many of those charges were lies (all except rebelling against the king). The main false charges were robbery, being an outlaw (although he technically broke laws they were unfair and evil anyway),and public treachery (he is Scottish not English).
@taguchit12345 Too many of you have been educated by Hollywood. What you see as 'glamour' now in so called 'Highland Dress' especially rthe highland regiments owes its existence to England in general, and Victoria in person (and she was half German). The real Highlanders would never have dressed so fancy.
And clan tartans are a comparatively modern invention. The modern kilt was invented by an Englishman.
@Cordeman The idea that the Highland Regiments owe their existence to "England" is a nonsense. The Highland Regiments basically were succesors to the earlier Independent Companies and were originally raised by the Highland Chiefs themselves - and such companies had started to come inot existence before the 1707 union. So whether they were raised when there was a Scottish govt or a later Briitsh govt is by the by. None were raised by an English govt.
@gaconnochie It is the Highland Regiments with their distinctive uniforms that owe their apearance to the need by Britain (governed from London) building an empire, to which I referred. After Culloden (1746) 'rebel' style garb (tartan dress) was 'outlawed' which suited the lowland Scots, who had little identity with the Highlanders . The law was lifted for those who joined the regiments and the uniforms were designed to attract recruits. The American Revolution (1776) helped force the issue.
@Cordeman Well you've changed England to Britain which was my point! The Highland Regiments though came out of the Independent Companies who emerged in the early 17thC though they didn't really expand until the Restoration period. However pre-union with England there was a half century of massive expansion of recruitment of Highlanders into the said companies by the Scottish govt. Both for policing in the Highlands themselves and for policing in the Lowlands (ie the Highland Host) during the
@Cordeman Well you've changed England to Britain which was my point! The Highland Regiments though came out of the Independent Companies who emerged in the early 17thC though they didn't really expand until the Restoration period. However pre-union with England there was a half century of massive expansion of recruitment of Highlanders into the said companies by the Scottish govt. Both for policing in the Highlands themselves and for policing in the Lowlands too
@gaconnochie The population of the whole of Britain at the period in discussion was a mere 6.5 million barely the population of London today. The population of Scotland around a million, mostly in lowlands. The highland population was a very small percentage of that. Britain grew from the union because the Industrial Revolution was impacting at the time.
The Union was in 1707 and therefore, politically, England itself sunk its identity into Great Britain. And we all
Because of the mix in our nation, I have English, Scottish, Manx, and Irish ancestry. Probably could find some Welsh, if I searched. Am I Celt, Saxon, or Viking? Like so many of us - a mix. Just had my DNA trace and come
like most from the ME thousands of years ago.. I guess, from where it all started 'The Garden of Eden'. The part of the world we are currently hell bent on destroying.
Forgetting the more recent influx into this island, the intermix over centuries of the different countries of the UK is such that it is really hard to make differences. Even the accents can fool if a person was born in one part and brought up in another. Movement throughout the island has always been free. The government reflects this mix. Many English fought in Scottish regiments, and vice versa. But the footba' field keeps difference alive - even between the Scots - Celtic, Rangers Wa Hae!
To address the recent comments made about Wallace and Scotland (PART 3):
Wallace has been criticized because he supported a King that renounced his Scottish homage. John was given the name "Toom Tabard" or "empty skirt" after he renounced his Scottish homage in 1296 after Wallace's execution in 1295.
To address the recent comments made about Wallace and Scotland (PART 2):
It is true that he never "supported" Robert the Bruce (which he didn't do in the movie either), but he only "supported" John because he was technically King of Scotland (because of the feudal court held at Berwick-Upon-Tweed in 1292) for the whole of Wallace's rebellion. Although really Edward I was the paramount Lord of Scotland at the time. In truth Wallace only supported SCOTLAND.
To address the recent comments made about Wallace and Scotland (PART 1):
Although Wallace’s entire extended family supported about five different estates of the low lands that doesn't mean that William Wallace was extremely wealthy and powerful at all. On the contrary, records show that even though he was minor aristocracy he was very humble.
I absolutely love this scene from the movie. "What are they doing?" "Saying goodbye in their own way. Playing outlawed tunes, on outlawed pipes." It's simple, yet powerful, and the short length (in my mind) only benefits it.
History is written by the winners, even if they were from the north of France and a bunch of Vikings under another name, .....but take solace in the fact that they invaded England 1st, just ask the man with an arrow in the eye, that'll piss the germans off.
@mycatisromeo one day I will help to lead scotland to freedom......I am sure, that William`s wish was not that scotland becomes part of england.....AND IT IS NOT MINE! ....take swords in your hands and rise a rebellion..... you need just courage.... and you all have it... ! ALBA GU BRATH MY FRIENDS !..... alba gu brath....
How beautiful and comforting. Thanks for posting this.
applecattutoring 6 days ago
im from an asian country.. far away from scotland and ireland. but i love bagpipes and the music from these lands. people find me weird over here and say i got no taste in music.. fuck them. this music is beautiful.
RameshNair525 2 weeks ago
Bagpipes are a family of instruments originating in the middle east and spread westward and northward into Europe along old trade routes. Nearly every ethnic group in Europe has or had a bagpipes tradition with its own unique take on the design concept. The Irish and Scots were johnny-come-latelys to piping, as piping traditions had existed in the Med since the time of Nero.
piobairesicago 2 weeks ago
@piobairesicago
Yaaaaaay, You know how to type "bagpipe" in Wikipedia. How about you just relax and enjoy the good tune instead of trying to give a history lesson that we don't care about.
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piobairesicago 1 week ago
@piobairesicag In response to #A: What a load of rubbish! Why don't you just troll somewhere else?
SlaineOz 1 week ago
@piobairesicago your a fuckwitt
DABBADAN666 4 days ago
@DABBADAN666 You're an ignorant semi-literate baboon.
piobairesicago 7 hours ago
@Mikeydottt It's a shit tune. And you all obviously need the history lesson, wanted or not.
piobairesicago 7 hours ago
@piobairesicago It's debatable about where the bagpipe started,but it's known that the celts had bagpipes long before Nero came on thescene - the roman mention their din on the battlefield many times (& I don't just mean the carynx).Ancient Irish legends also speak of the "Fir Bolg", who it's conjectured also had bagpipes.This would place them at least before 3-500BC.You have to remember that that the Celts spread from the Alps to eastern europe & even Anatolia, as well as the W.
SlaineOz 1 week ago
@SlaineOz conjectured, not proven. The "bag" referenced in the name of the Fir Bolg could be as easily be a shamanic talisman. The point is you don't know, I don't know, nobody knows because the EVIDENCE doesn't exist. The Celts were an oral culture that left no written records; all we have left of their culture are burial goods and few other odds and ends, none of which contain a depiction of bagpipes.
piobairesicago 7 hours ago
@piobairesicago And as for the Romans mentioning Celts playing bagpipes - Gauls of Western Europe, specifically - go ahead and find me a citation in an actual ancient Roman or Greek source.
piobairesicago 7 hours ago
Does this tune have another name than the one given in the movie? Or has it been composed just for it? I just Love this tune!! Cheers!!
dslmse 2 weeks ago
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piobairesicago 2 weeks ago
Film history will not forget at the top of magnificence and beauty Hafilm
MrABORANAH 3 weeks ago
My ancestry came from Wallace Long Live Nova Scotia!!!
JedJTL 1 month ago
Yeah the Uilleann pipes are Irish. The Highland bagpipes have a much harsher sound. Ireland has its own island haha. Scotland does not, it shares it with 2 other nations.
scarff94 1 month ago
i have scottish on both sides of my family
MrJcoates97 1 month ago
my Irish blood loves the melody :)
867Diana 1 month ago
@867Diana Irish? WTF this is Scottish. Go back to your (smaller) Island.
rb26dett32 1 month ago
@rb26dett32 It is my Island!
bulldozer517 1 month ago
@bulldozer517 Spears twice the size of a man...
rb26dett32 1 month ago
@rb26dett32 Some men are longer than others
samhobson30 1 month ago
@samhobson30 Very nice! Love that movie!
bulldozer517 1 month ago
@samhobson30 "Your mother been telling you stories about me again?"
kingsfull666 2 weeks ago
@rb26dett32 Great movie!!
bulldozer517 1 month ago
@rb26dett32
These bagpipes are Irish. I know because it's explained on Braveheart DVD. Irish ones are more melodic than Scottish ones. This is what someone (Mel Gibson or James Horner ) comments about this part.
frafa84 1 month ago
@frafa84 It was Gibson.
Groundlord 1 month ago
@frafa84
It doesn't matter, they're still pipes, and both countries are Celtic.. so why make a fuss of it?
1995Scotsman 1 month ago
@1995Scotsman Tell a Highland or Uilleann piper that the distinction doesn't matter. It matters to them a great deal.
piobairesicago 1 week ago
@piobairesicago
Maybe to them, but to the Scottish population.. no.
1995Scotsman 1 week ago
@1995Scotsman Who gives a flying f--- what the general populations think? They don't know the difference because they don't PLAY them. Ignorance is not, and will never be, superior to knowledge! It's not even equivalent!
piobairesicago 7 hours ago
@frafa84 I learned that when i was in Ireland. We were listening to a man playing the Irish bag-pipe and he told us that the bag-pipes heard in Brave were not Scottish, but Irish.
17Watman 3 weeks ago
if you close your eys , turn it up really load and listen to it , you feel free :)
Firelight313 1 month ago
@Firelight313 yes you do it is such a wonderful feeling :)
867Diana 1 month ago
@Firelight313 yes you do it is such a wonderful feeling
867Diana 1 month ago
@Firelight313 yes, yes you do it is such a wonderful feeling
867Diana 1 month ago
@Firelight313 it just has such a feeling longing for the past. i think about all the people that came before us.
boynamedblue 1 month ago
@ Phuuer ...amen
geversonsr 2 months ago
ancient warrior race still alive and proud, yours truly ; )
Briconartist111 2 months ago
You don't have to be Scottish to enjoy this music, everyone can.
StrathendrickPiper 2 months ago 19
@StrathendrickPiper im welsh and i love it
madascharley1 2 months ago
proudly Scottish my mother my father my grandparents both sides all the way back me first generation Canadian and proud of it all
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@bcboy3n2 exact same here.
iconzCree 2 months ago
Episch!!!!<3
NStrike91 2 months ago in playlist DL
it's a very nice piece off music only it's funny when you watch the movie you see the great highland bagpipe and you hear the uilian bagpipes ( the irish one, with the bellow)... :-)
perrypiobaireachd 2 months ago
this is really emotional no matter from where we come from this opens my eyes to the horror of what cruel king edward was putting scotland through and how he treated the lifes of all the highlanders. although i am english but if i had being a noble man back then i would of not being as cruel but in fact of said to my own men and said if they did wrong they would of being punished the same way as a perosn who had assaulted the kings men
steamfandan 2 months ago
Alba Gu Brath
Glennovan 2 months ago
This will play on my departure from this planet....Simply the most beautiful song I have ever heard. The song that captures, the song that sings, the song that says and tells the stories of my life and of my death. I cry and rejoice. I pray to my fathers, I pray to my mothers, and I weep for the lost, I weep for those that live without sight, and I weep because I will never amount to those that have brought me into this life. Fight for youe freedoms
jasonscottguinn 2 months ago 4
@jasonscottguinn That was beautiful.
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ZombieSurvivor777 2 months ago
Love this tune and I was very moved by the movie, which I have seen many times.
Mouseincorner 2 months ago
God be praised, Alba Gu Bragh! never was there a more truer individual who fought for a nations true identity, and released it from the shackles of English oppression. Long live William Wallace!
Beowulf1ca 2 months ago
I'm only about 5% Scot (and live in America,) but when I hear the pipes I know that that's the ethnicity in which I find the most pride.
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elephantbooger 2 months ago
One word Powerful
DevilBoy1254 3 months ago 2
BEST FILM EVER (plus robin hood, gladiator and the last of the mohicans )
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Muslims and rest of the medieval world can suck our European balls.
Vikings, Celts, Slavs, Saxons etc. Our legacy rule!
Dwimerytguy 3 months ago 46
@Dwimerytguy Pretty retarded to say that when Muslims were light years ahead of Dark Age Europeans when it came to philosophy, science, technology, medicine and of course, personal hygiene. Not so long ago, white people were the savages of the earth.
BronzeBullBalls 3 months ago
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@BronzeBullBalls Not so true my friend. Although I have nothing but respect for the Islamic arts and philosophy they are not the oldest. Not by a long shot. You can start educating yourself by looking up Newgrange and the Cygnus enigma. over 1000 years before the Egyptian pyramids, the Irish had built an observatory. No lie, No Myth, it is a fact preserved in stone
WyzDat 3 months ago
@BronzeBullBalls I agree with you on that scale..
I due to have a particular admiration for the Bronze Age Britons because there were so oppressed by the Romans and Saxons.
youpon1000 3 months ago
@BronzeBullBalls My how times change.
rodeocyclone 3 months ago
@rodeocyclone true that, true that hahaha
K3yB04dG000n 3 months ago
@rodeocyclone Perhaps, but demographically speaking, Muslim countries have more young people and make more babies. The West has a very old population and most of our population growth rate is due to immigration and their babies. A generation or two from now, Germans, Franks, Irish and the rest will be almost extinct.
BronzeBullBalls 3 months ago
@BronzeBullBalls You're speaking of the dark ages which really only spread the entirety of europe as christianity spread. pre-christian europe it is well recorded among historians that ancient scandinavians and other heathen men were more popular among the "civilized" women due to the fact that pagan men were better groomed, healthier, and had better hygeine than their counterparts in the cities. pagan philosophy also preserved vast knowledge of plants, animals, astronomy, etc.
Kberiotwhn 3 months ago
@Kberiotwhn Not really. For example, the lore and knowledge that the Church used in the field of medicine was passed down from the Greeks and Romans. Clergy men who went to university were taught the old ways of doing things, as handed down from the books and writings of Greek and Roman philosophers. Their practice of using shit and piss to cure diseases is one example. The Church didn't invent that practice, they continued it from the ancient europeans.
BronzeBullBalls 3 months ago
@Dwimerytguy I just learned recently that I am part viking, and irish...I am a Scot and finding these things out...I am a happy man :-)
soup460 2 months ago
the drums toward the end gimme chills...
blobperson 3 months ago
@blobperson lmao i thought i was the only one
cranktheshitup 2 months ago
this so relaxing and moving at the same time
bignick1982 3 months ago
Mickalek!
chelseagrin88 3 months ago
"First, learn to use this, then I'll
teach you to use this...."
MASSEFFECTfan101 3 months ago
these are uilleann pipes,
so that guy in the picture is not realy playing it like they say in the movie
gorillabagpipes010 3 months ago
I absolutely love this!!!!!
minwoo503 3 months ago
love it......
darkphenix100 3 months ago
finally i found this music!!!!! Every time i typed in braveheart funeral or something similar it doesn't show up or i get the main theme. But THIS is what I want to hear. Absolutely amazing music!
MrQZWarrior 3 months ago
I disagree, it doesn't take a Celt to enjoy such a beautiful piece. All worldly cultures have their tastes, but wolves aren't the only race that enjoy meat.
Phuuer 3 months ago 31
@Phuuer This is true I am niether Celtic or European I'm Mexican and I realy enjoy this song.
noce123 2 months ago
@Phuuer Well said man of another religion
snooze1974 1 month ago
Love this tune! so many sad and great memories!
MastaDamage 3 months ago 2
Great tune but these are uilleann pipes not bagpipes. Have to sit down to play the uilleann pipes!
approp 3 months ago
pipes n whistle mean just as much to us english too,
keanoman1000 3 months ago
This will be played at my funeral.
armyvet4peace 3 months ago
These pipes call me home.
PSYCHOMETALHEAD 3 months ago
im part irish and scottish :)
renegadexmythic 3 months ago 2
@renegadexmythic Me too!! :)
Jetli390 3 months ago
Lig dúinn cuimhneamh hAlban! Fada beo Wallace!
Let us remember scotland! Long live wallace!
Eddtastic100 3 months ago
im from new jersey. i love being irish. the sound of bagpipes always calms me down
justmoretolove 3 months ago
I am Iraqi and I feel like this song calls me to revolt against the oppressors!
baghdadi89 3 months ago
NAME OF THE SONG....PLEASE
Sekinawa 3 months ago
@Sekinawa This the theme music from the "Braveheart" soundtrack.
pahana 3 months ago
@pahana i know man/woman:) but is there a name of the song? composer? any thing
Sekinawa 3 months ago
@Sekinawa James Horner - Outlawed Tunes on Outlawed Pipes
sibazol 3 months ago
@sibazol thanks
Sekinawa 3 months ago
no matter what you are everyone loves those beautiful pipes!
kyleofjersey 3 months ago
I have irish blood in my veins..anytime I hear the pipes, scottish or irish I am very moved
geversonsr 3 months ago
@gynecolog1st haha
i didn't like that guy, he wasn't right in the head.
MrCountryHorse 4 months ago 2
EIRINN GO BRAGH!
Irishman22100 4 months ago
EIRINN GO BRAGH
Irishman22100 4 months ago
The almighty says he can get me outta this mess,.,.
but he's pretty sure your fooked.
gynecolog1st 4 months ago 4
Such a haunting and spectacular piece. You can almost feel the chill of a misty Scottish evening.
BuzzinFr0g808 4 months ago
I;m sure someone has pointed this out, but the pipes you see are the Highland bagpipes and the pipes you hear are the Irish Uilleann pipes
mikethepiper 4 months ago
i am scottish and every time i here this song i think back to my ancestors who fought along side William Wallace for our freedom.
macpherson290152 4 months ago
If i ever want to be an "Outlaw" i will be a Scottish "Outlaw".
ALBA QU BRA
mciaulih 4 months ago 2
Funny thing is these are the Irish pipes(Uileann Pipes), they're much more melodic than the Scots version.
like2surf 4 months ago
Proud to be a quarter Scottish, been to Scotland many times walk through the highlands. My second favourite country in the world, god bless the scots hopefully their'll gain independence as they should.
PSYCHOMETALHEAD 4 months ago 2
One of the most beautiful things ive ever heard. Im English, its shit, i dunno why anybody tried to defend its name, its a dump of a country, Scotland and Ireland should be free of the clutches of the government and monarchy, they just drag everybody down, thats why ive moved to Australia. The Auzzies actually ask if im Irish (I have a strong regional geordie accent that they mistake for Irish), but I actually like them mistaking it, i have some celtic blood in my, so im proud of my Irish decent
Phoenix1664 4 months ago 4
@Phoenix1664 glad you left. don't need anymore of you miserable cunts complaining about the country all the time.
ManicMammoth 4 months ago
@ManicMammoth wahaha who are YA!
Phoenix1664 4 months ago
"first, learn to use this..then, ill teach you to use..this"
prussianjaeger13 4 months ago 5
Any man or woman of Northern European or Celtic blood should be moved upon hearing this.
It's is the song that calls us home.
HeavyMetalRedneck666 4 months ago 67
@HeavyMetalRedneck666 This and Danny Boy
camarorider67 4 months ago
@HeavyMetalRedneck666 wrong, any living being should be moved by this.
LTG22 4 months ago
@HeavyMetalRedneck666
Erin Go Bragh to that.
Cheers Mate
TheCommadorSTIX 3 months ago
@HeavyMetalRedneck666 and Germanic and Nordic
TheUKHammer 3 months ago
@TheUKHammer Like I said. Celtic and northern European
HeavyMetalRedneck666 3 months ago
@HeavyMetalRedneck666
Not just Northern European or Celtic, laddie. Any European-blooded kinfolk will be brought to tears to this song. Slav and Greek and Roman all, in their blood flows Europe.
trevorf14 3 months ago in playlist IRISH & FOLK
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IngerL97 2 months ago
@HeavyMetalRedneck666 Im so glad you say North-European! Im Norwegian and i love Skandinavià and both Ireland and Scotland!
Free yourself from the Imperialist facist dogs of the European Union!
Hail from the mountains of Norway to my Celtic and North - European brothers and sisters!
Freedom!!
(PS: My name is not Inger.. thats my little sister and its her profile.. my name is Gunnar. So if any EU facist want to write negative commentaries... do it in a gentle way!.. if you can!)
IngerL97 2 months ago
@HeavyMetalRedneck666 im way down in southern britain and this music completely moves me:)
Emma1973Willis 2 months ago
Irish or scottish, both have the pride and honour of the celts of old in our veins. RIP to our lost loved ones, and God be with us all. Eirinn go bragh!
agentskud 5 months ago 40
@agentskud - I guess you should be proud of it. I haven't a shred of Celt blood, yet I think Celtic music is beautiful and moving.
dudecicero 4 months ago
@agentskud Fine speech, Now we'r gonna pick a fight
DementedSurfer 3 months ago
@agentskud
Since when have the Scottish people been Celts your Picts.
MrJoshuaPadraig 3 months ago
@MrJoshuaPadraig Fuck off troll.
MICKYMAVYT 2 months ago
@MrJoshuaPadraig Since the Ulster Gaels settled in Dal Riada in Pictland and, five hundred years later, created Alba when Kenneth macAlpin married the daughter of the Pictish king and became first king of Scots.
paddyhooligan 2 months ago
@paddyhooligan
The Ulster Gaels settled in Dal Riada does that make Scotland pretty much Celtic now?
If so we could class England a land of Celts. 25% of the English population are Irish immigrants. 6 Million who's Grandparents were born in Ireland and over 1 Million who hold Irish Passports. Does that make England a land of Celts?
I'm not trolling, i'm just trying to put some light on the misconception that Scotland holds the same weight as Ireland in it's Celtic Heritage.
MrJoshuaPadraig 2 months ago
@MrJoshuaPadraig Scotland, a land dominated by celtic groups: Scotti-Gaels(from Ireland), Picts north of the forth & britons of the lowlands. Angles in the south-eastern lowlands(scottish borders) & a drop of norse in there too much like Ireland & England.
When picts arrived in british isles, they were met in Ulster by Irish/Scotti Gaels who provided the picts with wives, gaelic wives. Scots today are most likely descendants of predominantly Gaels+picts. Celtic in essence.
ScotiExile 2 months ago
@ScotiExile
I havn't gone into depth into study all I know is the Irish settled in west of Scotland, which were the first Celts into Scotland.
But the majority of Scotlands population will be Pictish in ethnicity. I'll have to look it up abit more, interesting subject if you ask me.
Sláinte for info.
Slán
MrJoshuaPadraig 2 months ago
@MrJoshuaPadraig the picts were a celtic tribe, even tho they were pagans before converting to christianity, they spoke a byrthonic language, and celtic artwork is based on early pictish carvings
celticscot100 2 months ago
@MrJoshuaPadraig I don't think anyone really cares about who is Celtic and who is Pict. The Scottish and Irish are brothers and always will be
MICKYMAVYT 1 month ago 17
@MICKYMAVYT and your blood runs through a great number of americans.
boynamedblue 1 month ago
@MICKYMAVYT Amen brother! Slainte!
SlaineOz 1 week ago
good music that wil live for ever...just like the people that make it ;)
warmaarten 5 months ago
These are uilleann pipes. What.
Chikin1ninjas 5 months ago
@Chikin1ninjas Indeed you are correct. Beautiful pipe music but this song is NOT played on the Great Highland Bagpipe as portrayed in the movie by highland pipers.
pitbull8myguitar 4 months ago
im only young but the old Scottish pipes still put you in a place of pride and honour.....and im sorry for your loss.
DubSert 5 months ago
my grandfather died about 10 years ago now. one of the best ad most respectable men who walked scotland. this song gets me teary eyed and reminds me of him. he died of bone cancer... and still ad the strength to hang on until mine and my sisters birthday. and he's never missed one since.. r.i.p grampa x
Tando56PerCent 5 months ago
Alba Gu Bragh !
CodOverloadNoob 5 months ago
Irish by blood - Irish by soul and spirit!!
Eirinn go bragh!!!
celticbattleaxe 5 months ago
u just cant put in2 words how this song makes u feel nd a think a like it that way
McCutcheonHTID 5 months ago
That picture fits the song perfectly. Is this all just legend, or have we forgotten something we once knew about ourselves...
gmanpackerfan 5 months ago
I am American. No hint of Scottish, Irish, or any other UK in my background. Mostly German. But DAMN, these pipes are beautiful, wherever your ears are from.
revrbsj 5 months ago 3
Love this song, gives me goosebumps but in a good way. Could listen 2 it forever. Man i love being Scottish! :)
SuchaposerXxX 5 months ago
this song if what life means!
bloodkiller6467 5 months ago
and of course they were dressed in what was traditional Highland dress of the time. That is the belted plaid. The fact that Highland Dress changed over the years is by the by. The Highland Companies were formed and greatly expanded by the Scottish govt and later as Scottish Regiments were incorporated within the British army. They do not owe their existence to England though! A good read is "the Independent Highland Companies 1603-1760" by Peter Simpson for a lowdown on the earlier days
gaconnochie 5 months ago
Because Jacobitism often equated with Catholcism elsewhere the Scottish Jacobites wanted to ensure they weren't viewed as a Catholic army so they refused to enter England until Charles had stripped any Catholic officers of their command.
gaconnochie 5 months ago
@gaconnochie Perception rules reality. It is what is believed that matters. We see that today. Confusing issues is a weapon as powerful as a gun. It was fear of Catholicism returning by the ruling elite that helped the defeat of the Stuarts. The average Brit, in those days, was too concerned with surviving than who ruled. They were pawns in the hands of the religious/political divide - north of the border, or south. (Have things changed in our world?)
Cordeman 5 months ago
The last land battle fought in Britain was in1746 between the highlanders under Prince Charles (bonnie Prince Charlie) who wanted to regain the British throne under Catholicism and the rest, of Britain who wanted to remain Protestant.
Charles was defeated at Culloden. But the skirl of pipes could be heard coming from the English lines played by the Campbell's who were Protestant
So really it was a religious war and divided the Scots as well as the English Not a war of England v Scotland
Cordeman 5 months ago
@Cordeman You have a point in that there was a religious element. The Pretenders were Catholic but they had no declared intention to turn Britain Catholic. Within Scotland there were some Catholic clans who came out - but there weren't very many Catholics in Scotland. The real religious divide was between protestant sects. The bulk of the Hanovarians were Presbyterians and the bulk of the Jacobites were Episcopalians (ie Scottish Anglicans) and the in fighting had been going on since the 1640s.
gaconnochie 5 months ago
I want that music at my funeral !
Nangalad 5 months ago 2
To address the recent comments made about Wallace and Scotland (PART 5):
All in all, William Wallace and his army were great men that died for a great cause, Freedom from Tyranny (the only reason a scot at any time invaded England was because of English tyranny), and should only be given the highest praise and respect.
taguchit12345 6 months ago
To address the recent comments made about Wallace and Scotland (PART 4): Some claims have been made that Wallace himself wanted to be king based of his execution charges that say he falsely claimed to be King of Scotland, but many of those charges were lies (all except rebelling against the king). The main false charges were robbery, being an outlaw (although he technically broke laws they were unfair and evil anyway),and public treachery (he is Scottish not English).
taguchit12345 6 months ago
@taguchit12345 Too many of you have been educated by Hollywood. What you see as 'glamour' now in so called 'Highland Dress' especially rthe highland regiments owes its existence to England in general, and Victoria in person (and she was half German). The real Highlanders would never have dressed so fancy.
And clan tartans are a comparatively modern invention. The modern kilt was invented by an Englishman.
Cordeman 5 months ago
@Cordeman The idea that the Highland Regiments owe their existence to "England" is a nonsense. The Highland Regiments basically were succesors to the earlier Independent Companies and were originally raised by the Highland Chiefs themselves - and such companies had started to come inot existence before the 1707 union. So whether they were raised when there was a Scottish govt or a later Briitsh govt is by the by. None were raised by an English govt.
gaconnochie 5 months ago
@gaconnochie It is the Highland Regiments with their distinctive uniforms that owe their apearance to the need by Britain (governed from London) building an empire, to which I referred. After Culloden (1746) 'rebel' style garb (tartan dress) was 'outlawed' which suited the lowland Scots, who had little identity with the Highlanders . The law was lifted for those who joined the regiments and the uniforms were designed to attract recruits. The American Revolution (1776) helped force the issue.
Cordeman 5 months ago
@Cordeman Well you've changed England to Britain which was my point! The Highland Regiments though came out of the Independent Companies who emerged in the early 17thC though they didn't really expand until the Restoration period. However pre-union with England there was a half century of massive expansion of recruitment of Highlanders into the said companies by the Scottish govt. Both for policing in the Highlands themselves and for policing in the Lowlands (ie the Highland Host) during the
gaconnochie 5 months ago
@Cordeman Well you've changed England to Britain which was my point! The Highland Regiments though came out of the Independent Companies who emerged in the early 17thC though they didn't really expand until the Restoration period. However pre-union with England there was a half century of massive expansion of recruitment of Highlanders into the said companies by the Scottish govt. Both for policing in the Highlands themselves and for policing in the Lowlands too
gaconnochie 5 months ago
@gaconnochie The population of the whole of Britain at the period in discussion was a mere 6.5 million barely the population of London today. The population of Scotland around a million, mostly in lowlands. The highland population was a very small percentage of that. Britain grew from the union because the Industrial Revolution was impacting at the time.
The Union was in 1707 and therefore, politically, England itself sunk its identity into Great Britain. And we all
now were British.
Cordeman 5 months ago
Because of the mix in our nation, I have English, Scottish, Manx, and Irish ancestry. Probably could find some Welsh, if I searched. Am I Celt, Saxon, or Viking? Like so many of us - a mix. Just had my DNA trace and come
like most from the ME thousands of years ago.. I guess, from where it all started 'The Garden of Eden'. The part of the world we are currently hell bent on destroying.
Cordeman 5 months ago
Forgetting the more recent influx into this island, the intermix over centuries of the different countries of the UK is such that it is really hard to make differences. Even the accents can fool if a person was born in one part and brought up in another. Movement throughout the island has always been free. The government reflects this mix. Many English fought in Scottish regiments, and vice versa. But the footba' field keeps difference alive - even between the Scots - Celtic, Rangers Wa Hae!
Cordeman 5 months ago
To address the recent comments made about Wallace and Scotland (PART 3):
Wallace has been criticized because he supported a King that renounced his Scottish homage. John was given the name "Toom Tabard" or "empty skirt" after he renounced his Scottish homage in 1296 after Wallace's execution in 1295.
taguchit12345 6 months ago
To address the recent comments made about Wallace and Scotland (PART 2):
It is true that he never "supported" Robert the Bruce (which he didn't do in the movie either), but he only "supported" John because he was technically King of Scotland (because of the feudal court held at Berwick-Upon-Tweed in 1292) for the whole of Wallace's rebellion. Although really Edward I was the paramount Lord of Scotland at the time. In truth Wallace only supported SCOTLAND.
taguchit12345 6 months ago
To address the recent comments made about Wallace and Scotland (PART 1):
Although Wallace’s entire extended family supported about five different estates of the low lands that doesn't mean that William Wallace was extremely wealthy and powerful at all. On the contrary, records show that even though he was minor aristocracy he was very humble.
taguchit12345 6 months ago
I absolutely love this scene from the movie. "What are they doing?" "Saying goodbye in their own way. Playing outlawed tunes, on outlawed pipes." It's simple, yet powerful, and the short length (in my mind) only benefits it.
thebestusernameeva 6 months ago
History is written by the winners, even if they were from the north of France and a bunch of Vikings under another name, .....but take solace in the fact that they invaded England 1st, just ask the man with an arrow in the eye, that'll piss the germans off.
angelusmortis1412 6 months ago
Thats music.
Heythere373 6 months ago
@mycatisromeo one day I will help to lead scotland to freedom......I am sure, that William`s wish was not that scotland becomes part of england.....AND IT IS NOT MINE! ....take swords in your hands and rise a rebellion..... you need just courage.... and you all have it... ! ALBA GU BRATH MY FRIENDS !..... alba gu brath....
anze731 6 months ago