your english queen bowed to us irish,and laid a wreath to our ira heros from 1916,your empire came back to hunt you ,the sun has set on england ,any man who denies another man hs freedom ,has no right to freedom himself.
Its so funny now that the english are starting to wake up!They are rioting in the streets.The english are cannibals they even eat their own.Inner city London tries to rule the world.Finally their fucked up world is starting to crumble.The Euro will tank you dumb bastards.The nwo will lose.The tribe of Dan will be conquered.
Dream other dreams and better! I hope humanity will, and I try with all my heart to work for this. This is a powerful song and performance that resonates with the pain of unresolved history.
Catch the Bernadette Devlin video by Duncan Campbell at the Hayward Southbank , London March 2011. Surely she is iconic. As is Paul Brady who saw at Commonwealth Institute in 1970 when he was playing with The Tourist s [ [ Annie Lennox] drummer.
Great song, brilliantly sung! I was brought up with the idea of the Irish being thick, only able to dig holes and the obvious target for bad jokes. Travelling the world has taught me about love and respect. I hope the people who still carry hatred in their hearts, albeit very often justified, manage to find love and move towards peace in the world.
@cliffjamesmusic and not just that .....We are not thick,we don't just dig holes.Next time you see your parents and their friends tell them they're pricks.Not just that they're stupid pricks.We don't need your sympathy!Traveling the world may have taught you love and respect ....but your so condescending that that negates your position.We are just as smart as you asshole!
I am a 7th generation descendant of a race of people they tried to exterminate by famine and then tried to get rid of by shipping them off to Australia, not expecting them to survive. Yet, here we are, 200 years later and we are strong and have built a nation on the backs of those people who were dispossessed from Ireland. They will never get rid of the Irish spirit. It lives in us and always will.
Great version of a great song. Much better than the original album IMHO. Two acoustic instruments, two great musicians and one fabulous voice is all it needs.
We do what we need to do to survive cause they've been fuckin us for years.Remember m***** it takes 5 years to build a building and a day to tear it down mutherfuckers.
Just time to say enough to England and their fucked up bunch!It's nothing but the same old story.The English would eat their young to survive.They are viscous!They are violent!But the Irish are .....steadfast and strong.....and they can fuck off those limy bastards.
Honestly ....never met a good englishman.Assholes through and through.So all you english motherfuckers in the world that think your something,Go fuck yourself.
@kaybannon ...of things to come under FF in the future. FF are the very people who have allowed the scroungers to arrive in Ireland and live on wlfare. They are also the party that have allowed Irish business and industry to collapse to the point that your son and his generation are now getting on the next plane as opposed to the next boat of the 1980s. The Irish clubs and pubs of old in London will soon be full of a new generation of Irish emmigrants. FF = Fucking Failures!
The Media of the time,marginilised the Irish entering Britain.Once the Irish fraternity,pulled together and put down roots in London,and htrew their weight behind the constuction industry,and helped build London,only then did the snobbery of the day sit up and notice.
Never forget the very same people who made the city of London what it is today,wher treated the same as Blacks,when they disembarked from the ships from the West Indies.
@FreedomSaoirse Amen brother those wolves in sheeps clothing.Fn up the world and blaming everyone else.FN english nothing good comes from them but death.
Powerful, powerful stuff. I'm not Irish but I am of Irish background. It's sometimes easy to forget the prejudice and injustice doled out on the Irish nation, mainly by us British, but thankfully great songs like this remind us.
class song from one of Irelands finest .Living in the UK I can remember when we were just called "paddy" on the building sites, they couldn't be bothered to ask your name.
i am from his hometown and i seen him live a few years ago in a "secret" gig in Strabane and i can honestly say he is one of the biggest ball bags i have ever had the displeasure of seeing live!! Between telling people to "fuck up" and his general cocky attitude, he deserves to be brought down a peg or two!! Ok man, you know who to bang out a tune but you don't have to behave like you're Bob Dylan because you are clearly not!!! Plus he claims to be from Derry and not Strabane....jerk
@lmegryan "never accepted"....and it's only because he doesn't claim to be from here....i thought of him as one of the only, if not the only, legend ever to come from Strabane until his performance, it was in a small bar with people ordering drinks and he thought that because the prodigal son had returned to a place where he doesn't claim to be from ,that there would be silence in the air. Buddy,we go to pubs to drink beer, if you can't play over the sound of a pint being ordered you can fuckoff
Love this version both lads on fire.. marvellous... both in their prime at the time and the anger of the lyrics comes across so well ...remembering having to smile at the guy scrutinising my face many times over the years...
kohaylan i was living working in london on building sites during the seventies, i had no probelm whatsoever with the average englishman no problem at all but the ira with their bloody "armed struggle" i.e. blowing up men, women , children and horses in london made it very very difficult for the ordinary irishman and woman trying to make a living and feed their family from jobs they had found in england, jobs by the way which weren't available in ireland at the time.
My Father lied about his age to peel potatoes for the Queens merchant marines. this song reminds me of his story of bringing my 2 uncles to Canada and then to Chicago to build the skyline. Willie John Youghal...RIP I am smiling through the tears. TC
I have spent most of my life in horse racing as a lad. I have known so many Irish lads - some were a''holes - most were great fun and good people.
I heard criticism of the Irish during the troubles when they were at their height - mainly of the actual perpetrators of these deadly acts. English people , in my experience, were not generally looking down on Irish people , or, indeed, bearing any grudges about the bombs etc..
I cannot speak about the experience of Irish people over here.
I'm from Canada and one of my parents ,parents were english and the other were Irish.As a kid I was kept from the Irish side.They weren't good enough.The few times I went to there house i Realized they were my real family....they had my heart.
I guess it's a fairly cheesy thing to say, but anyone noticed how - saturday night drinking apart - the experiences described with such power and passion in this song, while no longer having relevance to the experience of Irish in England today, could very easily apply to the experiences of Asian Muslims in the UK in the 21st Century...
Absolutely superb,a brilliant political and poetic song,sung with a committed passion. I think it's the best song he every wrote. A true poem about the Irish diaspora.
its about irish migrants who were treated with much scorn. i think this song is about england and the flak ord irish had to deal with espesially with the ira back then
Yeah in their eyes We're nothing but a bunch of murderers...
What an epic song from one of Ireland's finest singers.
The angst, the sorrow, the dreams all rolled into a true masterpiece. I can relate to every word- the 70s were a tough time being a paddy in London- but in the end We find a way to make sense of it all- We want peace and love-but these things can be frustrated by suspicious minds..
@thedarksummernight Hi You can get that song on a CD called "Bringing it all back home" Vol 1 its about 15 yrs old, I was scearching for that version of the song and to my suprise found it in a car boot sale €1.... try amozon, its also on DVD under the same name.. best of luck
What an amazing song and so powerfully sang. This really is the story of the Irish in Britain during 'the troubles'. Eyed with suspicion, pointed out and looked down upon by English people who to be fair, were whipped into a frenzy of Irish baiting by the trash tabloid papers who tarred every Irish man and woman with the same brush. It amazes me that those same 'news' papers are now sold in Ireland as the 'Irish' sun/star/daily mail. The papers that caused as much trouble as Paisley's 'No's
So agree with ur sentiments on the gutter trash, people have such short memories, but the irish have become detached from the fimilair and quaint peoples we have a reputantion for! Everything is now commercialised and greed has now entered ou lives, the Celtic tiger has ruin Dear old Ireland!
As one Mayo person to another you are spot on. Try being a kid of Irish parents going to school there. How the wheel has turned. In parts in it is fashionable to be Irish "over".
worked there at that time had a job as someone on my own merits
In Ireland because we were working class and didnt "know" the right people I despite my honours leaving cert couldnt get any job got of a boat in 1981 3 million unemployed in the UK had a clerical job in a top university withen 10 days
by the way we worked when we wernt to other countrys ... why are we not making these people from other countrys who have bled us dry WORK?? since when did Ireland become SVP???????????????????
@kaybannon I don't fully understand your angst against what I've said. You may have been lucky enough to walk into a job in England as many Irish people have done in the past. However, it didn't stop many English people having poor attitudes towards the Irish during those times, partly due to the IRA and in a big way, due to the way the Irish were portrayed in English tabloid papers. I'm not sure why you think they were good days back in Ireland with 48p in the pound. Surely that was a sign..
@MacTireMhaighEo There was baiting in the press but my childhood in Manchester in the 1980s never involved abusing the Irish - most of us had some Irish ancestry (this contrasted to my mother's 1950's experience having an Irish father - before the troubles.) Perhaps it's a class issue. I never heard anyone slag off an Irishman or woman after Warrington in 1993 or Manchester in 1996. Rather, they felt sorry for people in the province who had to put up with that kind of horror far more regularly.
We Americans draw our culture from many nations, the Irish and the English too. Most of our folk music, Bluegrass, Country Western, etc. have their origin in the British Isles. Why would you suppose that Pauls' music is only for the Irish alone ? A good many of we Americans have the same live stories that Paul sings about.. We are all the same after all !
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americans dont have any culture nor do british. the robbed plundered and murdered other nations for centuries. Who are NATIVE americans? Indians! you are all imposters!
I'm sorry that you feel that way but can perhaps understand why. I'm also sorry that you are so filled with hate. I can't believe that Paul would agree with you. Additionally, and only my opinion, If paul were an American, he would be much loved. God Bless
get your head outta your arse you twat. trace the story of homo sapien right back to africa. olduvai gorge. i'm irish but am ashamed of morons like you. ireland was uninhabited until the spread of homo sapien, no political or religous ethos just people hunting food.
hey nothing but abunch of muderers that was then everybody grew up thank god now everything irish is gold westlife oh god llouie walsh should be tried for war crimes savour of the untalented dont vote on any x factor
In their eyes, we're nothing but a bunch of murderers"
I don't know what it is about that line, it just makes me feel something so strong. Its funny how the english used to feel about us and how they feel about us now.
mate! thank you so so so much for putting this on here. I have just become internet ok in my house. I watched this with open mouthed wonder when i was kid years ago when the bbc first broadcast it!...you have made me very happy:)
To PeelTower. Sorry to hear that you have been harassed. "Nothing But The Same Old Story" could easily be reversed to fit your situation. If you don't like what is being done to you.I must agree and say, I don't like it either. "Rangers or "Celtic" the famous code words for sectarian violence ( which side are you on). Violence is not a religion and harassment is not decent human behaviour. Good luck - my friend.
I've worked in London. I know what he's talking about - especially if an IRA bombs goes off. Look out. I understand Brady's anger and the fact that the song requires the same, it is made more powerful by it.
I've worked in the west coast of Ireland and I know what he's talking about too. It goes both ways and my countrymen never took jobs in Ireland and planted bombs in their spare time. I was harassed until I said who I supported: Rangers or Celtic. I said I supported neither but then I was harassed until I said who I would support if I 'had' to support one or the other. They weren't satisfied until they could put me in a sectarian box.
Could just as easily be a Polish song about living in Ireland (without the terrorism thing, of course). Was there meself - never been an outsider before that. You really find out who's worth knowing and who's a c*nt. London can be a cold place.
he didn't even have to kneel down ...he's that fecking diminutive....was in toilets out the back of the roasting pig in west belfast....year was 79 if i recall correctly.....
my da went over to sheperds bush in 1985 to earn a few pound, although he knew of bad feelings towards the irish he personly didnt see it going on so not all irish had it bad in london,
and now it come full circle this little island now gives work to people from all over the world and they are welcome to it
This song is about the thousands of Irish that immigrated to London and the prejudice they faced here. My parents came here during that wave of emigration in the 1960's.
It has I think fella, just got to remember there is always tossers in all walks of life, and remember that most of us out here are decent and would always lend a hand
your english queen bowed to us irish,and laid a wreath to our ira heros from 1916,your empire came back to hunt you ,the sun has set on england ,any man who denies another man hs freedom ,has no right to freedom himself.
rebelman1916 3 weeks ago
like this better than th original .
andjkh 3 weeks ago
any man how has been treated like a second class citizen and then create something so cool needs a lot of respect genius
chuck4185 1 month ago
great tune, reminds me of when I had to leave Ireland to work in London in the early 90s.
martygills 1 month ago
absolutely brilliant, & very very overlooked. i also love walk the white line
MoeRedArmy 4 months ago
Its so funny now that the english are starting to wake up!They are rioting in the streets.The english are cannibals they even eat their own.Inner city London tries to rule the world.Finally their fucked up world is starting to crumble.The Euro will tank you dumb bastards.The nwo will lose.The tribe of Dan will be conquered.
MrFucksakes 5 months ago
I had always heard of signs the english put up when Irish folk went to look for work, No Dogs, No Blacks, and No Irish.
We built the World!!:)
givingitashot1 5 months ago
@givingitashot1 My mother in law tells me that a nun once told her "God invented alcohol to stop the Irish from taking over the world". Lol
Great song, great lyrics, great singer!
horseforcelogging 5 months ago 3
@horseforcelogging Ahh man thats a deadly one too!!:):)
givingitashot1 5 months ago
now me daddys home - looks back comes back and glad to get back-one of the few that went back
cob060162 5 months ago
Excellent video! Excellent song! Excellent singer!
Love it!
Whizzbizz 6 months ago
i keep coming back to this video, its still here after years thank God ... what a performance..
gazgoon654 7 months ago
Great
maxieTB 7 months ago
like it , great vocals, cheers The Makem Folk Singer
TheMakemFolksinger 8 months ago
Dream other dreams and better! I hope humanity will, and I try with all my heart to work for this. This is a powerful song and performance that resonates with the pain of unresolved history.
lexinaut 8 months ago
INDEED: "THE SAME OLD STORY" AGAIN, AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.
JW
jfw032443 9 months ago
Catch the Bernadette Devlin video by Duncan Campbell at the Hayward Southbank , London March 2011. Surely she is iconic. As is Paul Brady who saw at Commonwealth Institute in 1970 when he was playing with The Tourist s [ [ Annie Lennox] drummer.
9773165 10 months ago
Guinness cheers across youtube.
carterburton 11 months ago
Great song, brilliantly sung! I was brought up with the idea of the Irish being thick, only able to dig holes and the obvious target for bad jokes. Travelling the world has taught me about love and respect. I hope the people who still carry hatred in their hearts, albeit very often justified, manage to find love and move towards peace in the world.
cliffjamesmusic 11 months ago
@cliffjamesmusic and not just that .....We are not thick,we don't just dig holes.Next time you see your parents and their friends tell them they're pricks.Not just that they're stupid pricks.We don't need your sympathy!Traveling the world may have taught you love and respect ....but your so condescending that that negates your position.We are just as smart as you asshole!
69cheekymonkey1 8 months ago 5
I am a 7th generation descendant of a race of people they tried to exterminate by famine and then tried to get rid of by shipping them off to Australia, not expecting them to survive. Yet, here we are, 200 years later and we are strong and have built a nation on the backs of those people who were dispossessed from Ireland. They will never get rid of the Irish spirit. It lives in us and always will.
rodon63 1 year ago 3
@rodon63 You make me feel proud to be 1/4 Irish, Erin Go Bragh to you.
goducks20101 10 months ago
It all boils down to this ...they hate us and we hate them....so when you see them tell them to fuck off!
MrFucksakes 1 year ago
Passionate performance of a cutting song.
uptightkid 1 year ago
Great version of a great song. Much better than the original album IMHO. Two acoustic instruments, two great musicians and one fabulous voice is all it needs.
MartyMolloy 1 year ago
Brady is a ledgend.
Irishcatholic1 1 year ago
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Brady is a ledgend
Irishcatholic1 1 year ago
Brady is a ledgeng!!!!!!!!
Irishcatholic1 1 year ago
fuck you wagner
69cheekymonkey1 1 year ago
We are the masons at that kind of shit
69cheekymonkey1 1 year ago
Come on over to my crib. Original acoustic rock.
See you there!
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ERICWAGNERSLUCID 1 year ago
We do what we need to do to survive cause they've been fuckin us for years.Remember m***** it takes 5 years to build a building and a day to tear it down mutherfuckers.
69cheekymonkey1 1 year ago
Just time to say enough to England and their fucked up bunch!It's nothing but the same old story.The English would eat their young to survive.They are viscous!They are violent!But the Irish are .....steadfast and strong.....and they can fuck off those limy bastards.
69cheekymonkey1 1 year ago
Honestly ....never met a good englishman.Assholes through and through.So all you english motherfuckers in the world that think your something,Go fuck yourself.
MrFucksakes 1 year ago
@MrFucksakes
gee and I bet your such a great person ..... they must be sad to have missed meeting you...........
kaybannon 1 year ago
@kaybannon ...of things to come under FF in the future. FF are the very people who have allowed the scroungers to arrive in Ireland and live on wlfare. They are also the party that have allowed Irish business and industry to collapse to the point that your son and his generation are now getting on the next plane as opposed to the next boat of the 1980s. The Irish clubs and pubs of old in London will soon be full of a new generation of Irish emmigrants. FF = Fucking Failures!
MacTireMhaighEo 1 year ago
Don't come too close!
69cheekymonkey1 1 year ago
The Media of the time,marginilised the Irish entering Britain.Once the Irish fraternity,pulled together and put down roots in London,and htrew their weight behind the constuction industry,and helped build London,only then did the snobbery of the day sit up and notice.
Never forget the very same people who made the city of London what it is today,wher treated the same as Blacks,when they disembarked from the ships from the West Indies.
If it wasn,t for the Irish,London is but a blur
FreedomSaoirse 1 year ago
@FreedomSaoirse Amen brother those wolves in sheeps clothing.Fn up the world and blaming everyone else.FN english nothing good comes from them but death.
69cheekymonkey1 1 year ago
A shame I´ve never heard about him before.
The limitation of a young dude from Germany.^^
Anyway, he´s f*****´ great!!!
TrophyScar00 1 year ago
Powerful, powerful stuff. I'm not Irish but I am of Irish background. It's sometimes easy to forget the prejudice and injustice doled out on the Irish nation, mainly by us British, but thankfully great songs like this remind us.
jimboyle1967 1 year ago
class song from one of Irelands finest .Living in the UK I can remember when we were just called "paddy" on the building sites, they couldn't be bothered to ask your name.
theresonly1utd 1 year ago
I think it's about the Irish emigrants to the USA....
bewren 1 year ago
whinging much?
SuperBeanson 1 year ago
shit talk just enjoy!
jimdoyles 1 year ago
we built london -and have a right to turn up there for a visit from time to time-go get em paul!
PatandUli 1 year ago
i am from his hometown and i seen him live a few years ago in a "secret" gig in Strabane and i can honestly say he is one of the biggest ball bags i have ever had the displeasure of seeing live!! Between telling people to "fuck up" and his general cocky attitude, he deserves to be brought down a peg or two!! Ok man, you know who to bang out a tune but you don't have to behave like you're Bob Dylan because you are clearly not!!! Plus he claims to be from Derry and not Strabane....jerk
cbreslin187 1 year ago
@cbreslin187 a prophet is never excepted in his home town
lmegryan 1 year ago
@lmegryan "never accepted"....and it's only because he doesn't claim to be from here....i thought of him as one of the only, if not the only, legend ever to come from Strabane until his performance, it was in a small bar with people ordering drinks and he thought that because the prodigal son had returned to a place where he doesn't claim to be from ,that there would be silence in the air. Buddy,we go to pubs to drink beer, if you can't play over the sound of a pint being ordered you can fuckoff
cbreslin187 1 year ago
@cbreslin187 I get the same impression and have heard the same thing. I think he's a bit of a tool for writing that stupid "island" song.
seosamh1921 1 year ago
theres a cuple of songs that hes sung that i carnt find on here let it happen is one of em this song is amazing tho
razelmc123 1 year ago
Love this version both lads on fire.. marvellous... both in their prime at the time and the anger of the lyrics comes across so well ...remembering having to smile at the guy scrutinising my face many times over the years...
lightn56 1 year ago
great song, great story, great singer
TheSitara 1 year ago
kohaylan i was living working in london on building sites during the seventies, i had no probelm whatsoever with the average englishman no problem at all but the ira with their bloody "armed struggle" i.e. blowing up men, women , children and horses in london made it very very difficult for the ordinary irishman and woman trying to make a living and feed their family from jobs they had found in england, jobs by the way which weren't available in ireland at the time.
macmór
technischesKO 1 year ago
My Father lied about his age to peel potatoes for the Queens merchant marines. this song reminds me of his story of bringing my 2 uncles to Canada and then to Chicago to build the skyline. Willie John Youghal...RIP I am smiling through the tears. TC
chamberlandbigshtyle 1 year ago 2
Great stuff!
northsideirish74 1 year ago
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MrFucksakes 1 year ago
This ones for you old timer!
69cheekymonkey1 1 year ago
All things aside; thank God for Riverdance
josephonwhidbey 1 year ago
I have spent most of my life in horse racing as a lad. I have known so many Irish lads - some were a''holes - most were great fun and good people.
I heard criticism of the Irish during the troubles when they were at their height - mainly of the actual perpetrators of these deadly acts. English people , in my experience, were not generally looking down on Irish people , or, indeed, bearing any grudges about the bombs etc..
I cannot speak about the experience of Irish people over here.
kohaylan 1 year ago
MONA LISA EYES
MrFucksakes 1 year ago
I'm from Canada and one of my parents ,parents were english and the other were Irish.As a kid I was kept from the Irish side.They weren't good enough.The few times I went to there house i Realized they were my real family....they had my heart.
69cheekymonkey1 1 year ago
I guess it's a fairly cheesy thing to say, but anyone noticed how - saturday night drinking apart - the experiences described with such power and passion in this song, while no longer having relevance to the experience of Irish in England today, could very easily apply to the experiences of Asian Muslims in the UK in the 21st Century...
Great, great song whatever...
dogbotim 1 year ago
@dogbotim yes, I agree
TRAVISTA87 1 year ago
This is brilliant:)
givingitashot1 1 year ago
Any fool can see the writing's on the wall, but they just don't believe that it's happening.
sandystrand2000 1 year ago
One of the finest songwriters ever and an incredible singer, such great memories of this song, music with something to say not just something to show
chrisbannisterone 1 year ago
Absolutely superb,a brilliant political and poetic song,sung with a committed passion. I think it's the best song he every wrote. A true poem about the Irish diaspora.
conrad152 1 year ago
what is song about? I feel stupid asking :( But is better to learn then be ignorant.
MrCopperhead1861 2 years ago
can u not hear the lyrics?
kev2688 1 year ago
an irishman going to london in the seventies. and the fears of everyone that he was there to bomb them.
plw1993 1 year ago
its about irish migrants who were treated with much scorn. i think this song is about england and the flak ord irish had to deal with espesially with the ira back then
clerkhog 1 year ago
Yeah in their eyes We're nothing but a bunch of murderers...
What an epic song from one of Ireland's finest singers.
The angst, the sorrow, the dreams all rolled into a true masterpiece. I can relate to every word- the 70s were a tough time being a paddy in London- but in the end We find a way to make sense of it all- We want peace and love-but these things can be frustrated by suspicious minds..
tallpaddy 2 years ago 15
Hey everybody...where do i can get this version of that song!? It´s so awesome...they are both incredible! Love it!
Love and Peace
thedarksummernight 2 years ago
@thedarksummernight Hi You can get that song on a CD called "Bringing it all back home" Vol 1 its about 15 yrs old, I was scearching for that version of the song and to my suprise found it in a car boot sale €1.... try amozon, its also on DVD under the same name.. best of luck
jinkGERO64 2 years ago
@jinkGERO64 It`s from the album "Hard Station"
danthedobermann 1 year ago
@thedarksummernight download youtube listen an hey presto, you can play it on your mp3
blueyesxxx 2 years ago
@thedarksummernight Its on 'Bringing it all Back Home' double album (various artists)
crimlinwest 2 years ago
search for youtube to mp3 in google and stick the url into the box. theres the sound or its on dvd & cd called bringing it all back home
boonlid 2 years ago
What an amazing song and so powerfully sang. This really is the story of the Irish in Britain during 'the troubles'. Eyed with suspicion, pointed out and looked down upon by English people who to be fair, were whipped into a frenzy of Irish baiting by the trash tabloid papers who tarred every Irish man and woman with the same brush. It amazes me that those same 'news' papers are now sold in Ireland as the 'Irish' sun/star/daily mail. The papers that caused as much trouble as Paisley's 'No's
MacTireMhaighEo 2 years ago 45
I so agree, they even sell the flipping
Mail here now.
soundsean 2 years ago
So agree with ur sentiments on the gutter trash, people have such short memories, but the irish have become detached from the fimilair and quaint peoples we have a reputantion for! Everything is now commercialised and greed has now entered ou lives, the Celtic tiger has ruin Dear old Ireland!
phoenix1916 1 year ago
@MacTireMhaighEo
As one Mayo person to another you are spot on. Try being a kid of Irish parents going to school there. How the wheel has turned. In parts in it is fashionable to be Irish "over".
diarmcon 1 year ago
@MacTireMhaighEo dont buy newspapers anymore, the unionist press are finished! go to news net scotland dot com (all one word) for the fightback.
mudfries 1 year ago
@MacTireMhaighEo
i often uttered those very words, and read those headlines
brenlardog 1 year ago
@MacTireMhaighEo
worked there at that time had a job as someone on my own merits
In Ireland because we were working class and didnt "know" the right people I despite my honours leaving cert couldnt get any job got of a boat in 1981 3 million unemployed in the UK had a clerical job in a top university withen 10 days
kaybannon 1 year ago
@MacTireMhaighEo
and MY family had faught and died for our freedom.... Icame back to Ireland in '83
built my family live here under the FF good days of tighten your belt 48p in the £
now my 26 yr old son qualifiedsparky has to go to Aus.... and you have the "right" to post comment like this????????????????? get a fucking life
kaybannon 1 year ago
@MacTireMhaighEo
by the way we worked when we wernt to other countrys ... why are we not making these people from other countrys who have bled us dry WORK?? since when did Ireland become SVP???????????????????
kaybannon 1 year ago
@kaybannon I don't fully understand your angst against what I've said. You may have been lucky enough to walk into a job in England as many Irish people have done in the past. However, it didn't stop many English people having poor attitudes towards the Irish during those times, partly due to the IRA and in a big way, due to the way the Irish were portrayed in English tabloid papers. I'm not sure why you think they were good days back in Ireland with 48p in the pound. Surely that was a sign..
MacTireMhaighEo 1 year ago
@MacTireMhaighEo There was baiting in the press but my childhood in Manchester in the 1980s never involved abusing the Irish - most of us had some Irish ancestry (this contrasted to my mother's 1950's experience having an Irish father - before the troubles.) Perhaps it's a class issue. I never heard anyone slag off an Irishman or woman after Warrington in 1993 or Manchester in 1996. Rather, they felt sorry for people in the province who had to put up with that kind of horror far more regularly.
milbomilbo 10 months ago
this is irelands national anthem
cullinane8888 2 years ago 3
legand
seanybealeo 2 years ago 3
absalootly brilliant in the case of paul brady thats like normal usual thanks for this
sawabojo 2 years ago 2
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gazgoon654 2 years ago
We Americans draw our culture from many nations, the Irish and the English too. Most of our folk music, Bluegrass, Country Western, etc. have their origin in the British Isles. Why would you suppose that Pauls' music is only for the Irish alone ? A good many of we Americans have the same live stories that Paul sings about.. We are all the same after all !
josephonwhidbey 2 years ago 4
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americans dont have any culture nor do british. the robbed plundered and murdered other nations for centuries. Who are NATIVE americans? Indians! you are all imposters!
quirke88 2 years ago
I'm sorry that you feel that way but can perhaps understand why. I'm also sorry that you are so filled with hate. I can't believe that Paul would agree with you. Additionally, and only my opinion, If paul were an American, he would be much loved. God Bless
josephonwhidbey 2 years ago
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gazgoon654 2 years ago
get your head outta your arse you twat. trace the story of homo sapien right back to africa. olduvai gorge. i'm irish but am ashamed of morons like you. ireland was uninhabited until the spread of homo sapien, no political or religous ethos just people hunting food.
vindicari 2 years ago 7
and the irish dont?
quirke88 2 years ago
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gazgoon654 2 years ago
hey nothing but abunch of muderers that was then everybody grew up thank god now everything irish is gold westlife oh god llouie walsh should be tried for war crimes savour of the untalented dont vote on any x factor
motorheadline 2 years ago
magic
cullinane8888 2 years ago
I'm sorry he's not an American. What a fantastic gift he would be to us.
josephonwhidbey 2 years ago
pure magic
jimdoyles 2 years ago
Fantastic, sung well
RugbyHockeySoccer 2 years ago
Sung with real passion Paul. You obviously mean every word. Great song. Great performance.
GriffAtMoreton 2 years ago
GO IRELAND!!!
rockindaddyo 2 years ago
YES!
locom27 2 years ago
great song, played well. always love the accordion reference...
badlybruisedbob 2 years ago
Nothing but a bunch of murderers! Is always the line I remember. But I'm English!
Coltrane48 2 years ago
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC for all time lol
palleagle1 2 years ago
quality song
jethro081 2 years ago
A Song about his experience when he left Ireland to go to London 1972. Have close listen to the lyrics.
matinee310 2 years ago 5
Go Paul.
nzcalling 2 years ago
Brilliant but I love the album version best. What a great artist;)
bbsb300 2 years ago
wow. paul brady aged well.
shazam15 2 years ago
And as for the "dude on the left", his name is Donal Lunny, and he is a fucking talented musician
ten4bigbuddy 2 years ago 3
Anthem for the underdog, brilliant
ten4bigbuddy 2 years ago
so true
grahamer06 2 years ago
that's how it was for me.
aeflint 2 years ago
I love paul brady
EmmaWrites 2 years ago 3
un album à se procurer... puissant et épique !
molequedosamba 2 years ago
ive got his name yaaaaaaas!
pbradymilkskate 2 years ago
The dude on the left may be small - but he scares the crrap out of me.
I would'nt like to bump into him in a dark alley - he looks the type that would bite you nose off. lol
sociovid 2 years ago
he's one of the greatest musicians i ireland...
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TRAVISTA87 2 years ago
best version ever.... great passion
markoconroy 2 years ago
"You can see that you're nothing but a murderer
In their eyes, we're nothing but a bunch of murderers"
I don't know what it is about that line, it just makes me feel something so strong. Its funny how the english used to feel about us and how they feel about us now.
Zhirkov 2 years ago
Brillo
SeanBreen 2 years ago
I am actually learning this song on piano at the moment , I have the musicbook songs and crazy dreams. Its fast song. and it will take time to learn
Lazairus 2 years ago
Brilliant....
rapir12354 2 years ago
this is a very good song, but I prefer brady's folk renditions. i just think they're prettier.
kalebb2008 2 years ago
Bringing it all back home,was a fantastic series,thanks for posting this.
DJMarksman 2 years ago
mate! thank you so so so much for putting this on here. I have just become internet ok in my house. I watched this with open mouthed wonder when i was kid years ago when the bbc first broadcast it!...you have made me very happy:)
mercurylounger 3 years ago
Awsome a man at the top of his craft emotion, love, hate, power, may the force be with you, you need to have played live to feel this at its best.
fatgut5 3 years ago
paul= legend
MARCOSBARCENA 3 years ago
great song and songwriter!
Axlerator9911 3 years ago
To PeelTower. Sorry to hear that you have been harassed. "Nothing But The Same Old Story" could easily be reversed to fit your situation. If you don't like what is being done to you.I must agree and say, I don't like it either. "Rangers or "Celtic" the famous code words for sectarian violence ( which side are you on). Violence is not a religion and harassment is not decent human behaviour. Good luck - my friend.
zaseryit 3 years ago
I've worked in London. I know what he's talking about - especially if an IRA bombs goes off. Look out. I understand Brady's anger and the fact that the song requires the same, it is made more powerful by it.
zaseryit 3 years ago 2
thats it in a nut shell.
nice one.
jimdoyles 3 years ago
I've worked in the west coast of Ireland and I know what he's talking about too. It goes both ways and my countrymen never took jobs in Ireland and planted bombs in their spare time. I was harassed until I said who I supported: Rangers or Celtic. I said I supported neither but then I was harassed until I said who I would support if I 'had' to support one or the other. They weren't satisfied until they could put me in a sectarian box.
PeelTower 3 years ago
i played with pat (the professor) mc manus in easly 80`s on a mamas boys tour of ireland
blueyesxxx 3 years ago
これは、凄い歌です。心が震えた。本当の心根が表現されたソウルミュージック、あるいはブルースといえると思います。形式を超えた音楽の同一性をこの曲から深く感じ取れます。文学的でもあり、歴史を感じることも出来る深い内容を持った曲だと感じます。
yascelt 3 years ago 2
Could just as easily be a Polish song about living in Ireland (without the terrorism thing, of course). Was there meself - never been an outsider before that. You really find out who's worth knowing and who's a c*nt. London can be a cold place.
mickculleton1 3 years ago
Why the Polish? Sure, they're all fucking off due to the recession.
Riotgrrill 3 years ago
true, short memory when it comes to things like that
okee9 3 years ago
Genius
FinCroweman 3 years ago
I'm from Tyrone, not far from where Paul grew up, a fact I'm very proud of!
Clausewitz072 3 years ago
I'm from Cavan,Cousin of Pat Mc Manus!
FinCroweman 3 years ago
this tune is about the irish emigrants that went to england and worked on the roads. they were'nt too well received and had it hard to get by.
clerkhog 3 years ago
just saw this guy last night with christy moore
caitlin21meeenie 3 years ago
lucky :)
00Indy 3 years ago
Great vid - and it's not about the States, the character's torn between moving on from England to the States and homesickness.
The guys look younger in 2008, than they did in 1991!!!
bollix13 3 years ago
isnt it about the states
luemo12 3 years ago
he didn't even have to kneel down ...he's that fecking diminutive....was in toilets out the back of the roasting pig in west belfast....year was 79 if i recall correctly.....
spudsandbeans 3 years ago
no way!!.....me too!
spudsandbeans 3 years ago
ya reckon??.....he gave me a blowjob for 5 punt back in the day before he was famous...now that was JOY.....
conas16 3 years ago
joy
jimdoyles 3 years ago
One of the best songs ever written by an Irish man and what a great version..He's a legend
seanpianoman 3 years ago
we build london super irish!!!!
jimdoyles 3 years ago
my da went over to sheperds bush in 1985 to earn a few pound, although he knew of bad feelings towards the irish he personly didnt see it going on so not all irish had it bad in london,
and now it come full circle this little island now gives work to people from all over the world and they are welcome to it
good luck to them all
jimdoyles 3 years ago
This song is about the thousands of Irish that immigrated to London and the prejudice they faced here. My parents came here during that wave of emigration in the 1960's.
London Irish and Proud!
AndyBhoyBCS 3 years ago
an immigrants story.. brilliant.
Annoeire 3 years ago 3
sings like Van Morrison...plays the guitar like Knopfler.....a pure genius....what a performer....I love him...
cantonadenmark 3 years ago 2
Paul's vocal style in this reminds me of Mellencamp.
jrlaker 3 years ago
One of the greatest songwriters, responsible for a number of hits by major artists.
Plus a unique guitar style.
Great job, Paul.
LauranceCWright 3 years ago 4
Awesome acoustic version...current as ever!
HigginsAmericanKenpo 3 years ago 2
What can I say...brings me back a number of years, lyrics might be a little too political but then it was like that back then...Cheers to all x
Nockiesmum 3 years ago
fuckin legend
jimjckjoe 3 years ago 3
First heard this song 13 years ago , just sounds better the older you get
ray261073 3 years ago
Brilliant.
KubbsWickedSoul 3 years ago
Genius.
manatthewindow 3 years ago
The Man From Strabane, what a talent. Nothing more to be said.
LURIG81 3 years ago
One of irelands greatest songwriters.
DaArtyGuy 3 years ago 2
Wow Paul looking his geekiest but playing his very best.
ConBigpeepee 3 years ago
things having changed Paul - despite the "New Age" we r still being treated the same. No Blacks No Paddies No Dogs ... thought all that had changed.
POP1888 4 years ago
your going to the wrong places mate
fignon 3 years ago 4
It has I think fella, just got to remember there is always tossers in all walks of life, and remember that most of us out here are decent and would always lend a hand
radiotarifa 3 years ago