one other thing - and don't forget it - but we, the people of the Anglo Celt Isles, can trace our ancestors back to the peasantry. Oh, don't mention that to a hooraw limey-cum-henry or a hooraw jock or a hooraw taff or a hooraw paddy, whatever you do. Even Betty Windsor's ancestors were common-as-muckers from Germany!! And Philip Mountbatten was born on a TABLE in Greece! Go on, read up on it.
To the best of my knowledge, there are no posh paddies living in ANY council estate in ANY part of Ireland, north or south. theones who got an educatioln got out and stayed out of those areas. they had to. so much for socialism. and catholicism. let the great unwashed breed like rabbits and fleas and you'll have plenty of factory fodder and army fodder. and dole fodder.
Southern irish socialism is very RIGHT WING, don't you think??? Reply, sil voo play!!
DEAR SIR OR MADAM: As you all know, if you wanted to apply for a job and you came from a council estate, your chances of getting the job were nil. And most of the council estates are called after heroes of our history. Sarsfield Square in Athlone is hardly the Foxrock part of Athone, is it? This is how to segregate people - we cannot use their colour so we use their address instead. APARTHEID, to be correct.
Excuse me while I fangirl over the Irish Brigade in the Service of France...is it bad that I still cry when I read about Patrick Sarsfield? Thank you so much for posting this song!
We learned this song (a quicker version) in Belfast in the 1960s at Primary School. We learned "national songs" but not "rebel songs" (a curious distinction).
The songs written in the 19th century are about building he nationalist and republican cause (hooray!) but kinda distort History a little (eg Clares "Dragoons" were actually an INFANTRY regt. ....Clares "Regiment". Likewise the "green" flag was not really known in those Jacobite days.
one other thing - and don't forget it - but we, the people of the Anglo Celt Isles, can trace our ancestors back to the peasantry. Oh, don't mention that to a hooraw limey-cum-henry or a hooraw jock or a hooraw taff or a hooraw paddy, whatever you do. Even Betty Windsor's ancestors were common-as-muckers from Germany!! And Philip Mountbatten was born on a TABLE in Greece! Go on, read up on it.
JAN-1-2012.
squirell1952 1 month ago
To the best of my knowledge, there are no posh paddies living in ANY council estate in ANY part of Ireland, north or south. theones who got an educatioln got out and stayed out of those areas. they had to. so much for socialism. and catholicism. let the great unwashed breed like rabbits and fleas and you'll have plenty of factory fodder and army fodder. and dole fodder.
Southern irish socialism is very RIGHT WING, don't you think??? Reply, sil voo play!!
squirell1952 1 month ago
DEAR SIR OR MADAM: As you all know, if you wanted to apply for a job and you came from a council estate, your chances of getting the job were nil. And most of the council estates are called after heroes of our history. Sarsfield Square in Athlone is hardly the Foxrock part of Athone, is it? This is how to segregate people - we cannot use their colour so we use their address instead. APARTHEID, to be correct.
squirell1952 1 month ago
Excuse me while I fangirl over the Irish Brigade in the Service of France...is it bad that I still cry when I read about Patrick Sarsfield? Thank you so much for posting this song!
sengrahammcgrath 11 months ago
Clare's Dragoons is the marching song of the 27 Infantry Battalion
mf863722 1 year ago
We learned this song (a quicker version) in Belfast in the 1960s at Primary School. We learned "national songs" but not "rebel songs" (a curious distinction).
The songs written in the 19th century are about building he nationalist and republican cause (hooray!) but kinda distort History a little (eg Clares "Dragoons" were actually an INFANTRY regt. ....Clares "Regiment". Likewise the "green" flag was not really known in those Jacobite days.
IrishHistory1952 1 year ago
Last Verse:
Oh! Comrades! Think how Ireland pines,
Her exiled Lords, her rifled shrines,
Her dearest hope, the ordered lines,
And bursting charge of Clare's Dragoons,
Then fling your Green Flag to the sky,
Let "Limerick!" be your battle cry,
And charge, until the blood floats fetlock-high,
Around the track of Clare's Dragoons!
jgreenhoff 1 year ago
me too...i love this tune...is it usually played at a quicker tempo??
jgreenhoff 1 year ago
I have been looking for this song for nigh on 12 years or so! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
astartes82 2 years ago