O Neills March - Seán O Riada

[gespb32]

@TypingTreeFrog The "Scots" came from Ireland, we gave you your identity, your culture & heritage.

The word "Scot" is derived from the term latin "Scotti" which means western invader & was given by the Romans, it designated the Irish tribes who raided Roman Britain & settled in western "Scotland".

The loyalists always have no response to historical fact!!

[ulan1989]

Celtic folk is one of the beast, I love it :)

[splortz]

This would be "O'Neill's March/Tralee Gaol/" for those looking for the tune, you'll find it is a merger of two tunes.

[Andulsi]

Braveheart wa a good movie, though a bit silly. Wallace was lowland scots of Welsh descent. He would never have worn tartan. Took some hollywood style liberties with the oul history.

[McClernand4]

EIRINN agus ALBA ABU !

NA GAEL GO BRATH !!!!



[DarkShaDowHooD]

MY BROTHER'S GREAT SONG .

[MrDelacruise]

Castration at 3:15

[95jjs]

@TypingTreeFrog love how it was funded by holywood filmed mostly in ireland and in the soundtrac use irish uillean pipes, and is directed by an ausie... you are truely the ignorant one here.

[billyhunchback]

@TypingTreeFrog :The movie was made in County Wicklow Ireland and most of the extras were members of the Irish Army.Wind your tard neck in.

[DantesDarkside]

what is the name of the movie?

[NASTYVO1D]

@DantesDarkside Braveheart. Classic film. You havent seen it yet?

[DantesDarkside]

@NASTYVO1D no, unfortunately not. But this will be the next movie on my list, thanks for the answer :)

awesome video btw.

[thedirtyfecker]

King of the Fairies? Which O'Neill are we talking about here? Hugh (Kelly) O'Neill? Or the true 'Great' O'Neill - Sean 'the Proud' O'Neill?

[XXxdancerx]

one person isnt irish !! :D x

[MyUlster]

We O'Neill are still here ! Waiting ! An becoming! stronger !"My ancestors were kings of Ulster, and Ulster is mine, and shall be mine. O'Donnell shall never come into his country, nor Bagenal into Newry, nor Kildare into Dundrum or Lecale. They are now mine. With the sword I won them; with this sword I will keep them” Séan An Diomas Ó Néill,

[RSFDunBreatainn]

@MyUlster , A Chara, "O'Donnell shall never come into HIS country" hmm i'm a wee bit confused, can ye explain the meanining of? Slan.

[shambles7ful]

@TypingTreeFrog The whole thing was filmed in Ireland using the Irish FCA, it looks like a tibute to the Gaelic peoples !!!

[NASTYVO1D]

@shambles7ful  Yep, it was indeed. Dont worry about treefrog, he's slower than a....a treefrog

[Aislynn93]

too bad the movie plays in SCOTLAND ;P but anyway, it's a great version of this song!

[NASTYVO1D]

@Aislynn93 Ah yeah, they didnt have camcorders in 12th century Ireland. Other than that I would have used actual footage..:P

[Aislynn93]

@NASTYVO1D LOL But, I didn't mean to offend you, sry... my actual point was, why not make more movies about Ireland? Its history is just as captivating and beautiful (plus, it's not part of the UK!)

[NASTYVO1D]

@Aislynn93 Im only joking with ya Ais, thanks for the comments

[CaptainHousty]

spot the paddys

[agger2]

@KillaWailz sean o'riada's version; this should really have been included in the description...

[B0rnles13]

I really think this film was a key part of the way Scotland gained it's independence, I remember the 1st time I saw it in Scotland, I felt like getting a big sword and attacking English people with it. Thankfully neither sword or Englishman were to hand.

Then I watched it in England, I still got the same feeling of being ripped of by our English neighbours, and there was some anger there, but I realised that getting so mad over a film was insane, besides any English I know were the same as me.

[MyUlster]

We are still here ,O'Neill's for ever the real Kings of Ireland !

[ParanoidBerserker]

Ahh, good old Celtic music...

[Splash684]

agus an thig leat labhair as Gaelige?

[NASTYVO1D]

@Splash684 Tá beagán Gailge agam anois mar ní labhair mé é i mbliain. Tá sé go han bhrónach. Tú?

[Splash684]

@NASTYVO1D thig liom mar teann me thig scoil Geailge ta me 11 bliain doas

[Splash684]

NASTYVO1D  are u an Oneill?

[neamhrialtaigh]

i'm an O'Néill and as proud as it gets of my name.

[Cionaodh57]

@neamhrialtaigh You should be! I descended from the O'More (Ua Mordha) on my mother's side. The Chief of the Name, The O'Neill resides in Portugal. I think he should take over The Dail.

[Cionaodh57]

@neamhrialtaigh You should be! I am descended from the O'More (Ua Mordha) on my mother's side. The Chief of the Name, The O'Neill resides in Portugal. I think he should take over The Dail.

[Siali14]

Brilliant! Love it! And really good combination with the video! Thanks!

[NASTYVO1D]

@Siali14  Cheers!

[TheHighlandLover]

This song has always been our favorite, We have also kept as small child is listening to ... Even today, very like it! : D

[Ganjateer88]

Ha ha great upload man, thanks a lot. I got English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh blood running through my veins so i am about as Celtic as it gets. This music really hits home with me on a level i cannot explain :)

[NASTYVO1D]

@Ganjateer88

I know that feelin

[bennie777]

@Ganjateer88

the Irish aren't celts, they're Gaels......

[Ganjateer88]

@bennie777 And Gaels are a Celtic tribe.....

[bennie777]

@Ganjateer88

pre-celtic, that's like saying that the germans/scandiavians are english....

The Gaels are responsible for the first architectural structure on earth, and indirectly, the first currency coins, the Celts are responsible (1000 years later) for stacking stones on top of each other, I don't think it's fair to associate the two so closely.

[Ganjateer88]

@bennie777 Well, by the time they settled in Ireland, i would figure them to have been Celts by then. After all they came from NW Portugal/Spain area..Historically if you go back far enough i guess you could classify them as Gaels. Anyway, I will have to look more into all of this..

[ouch5150]

So let me start by saying this is awesome...However you maybe should have chosen an actual Irish battle scene not a Scottish one. Also Clans were more a Scottish high land term in Ireland it would be called House of O'Neill other wise known as

Tuath U'Nail in Gaelic...But cheers thanks for the awesome video none the less.

[NASTYVO1D]

@ouch5150

Glad you enjoyed it. Tunes like this should never be lost.

[bennie777]

@ouch5150

that's nonsense. I'm Irish and I've always referred to my family as Clann Mac......

[Cruxorder]

IRELAND <3 <3 <3

[DIRECTORLORD]

It's all a bit more complicated than some are suggesting. First, 'Pict' was a nickname given by Romans, meaning painted. The more formal title given to them was 'Caledonians'. According to the sources, the Caledonians, or Crutnie, also came from Spain---moved back and forth between Alba and Erin.

The place names in the Highlands, or Caledonia, always seem to have been in Gaelic.

However, the Caledonians also talk of the "ancient ones' who were in the Highlands before them.

[SiggiNebel]

You can't fool me, Mr. Gibson. I accept that those knights are movie knights with features their historical counterparts never had, like the ability to launch attacks in a straight line. But even then they should be plausible and anticipate that a troup of Scottish movie infantry would try to stop them with pikes. And if they were foolish enough to be defeated by a trick that can be figured out so easily, movie horses still should be wise enough not rush into a wall of spears to get impaled.

[Cionaodh57]

Are the Chieftains playing this in this video? Sure sounds like them. If so, which album/CD is this from?

[Heath75032]

It's on the "Chieftains Live" album

[tubeasswipe]

Hi one of the oldest names for ireland is scotia called by europeans. An irish prince (i dont have his name to hand) moved to scotland and got a foothold their. Tthe irish (gaelic), celtic language & culture infused with the natives there, named picts (trans; tattoed people), some scandinavian pockets were on the east coast of scotland this is why scotland is a celtic area. scots gaelic trans= scots irish

[monkeyapplenerd]

someone please post the acoustic tabs to this song.

[scunnerd25]

tapadh leibh i new it was more complicated than (all scots were irish) argument

[slimpickensrx]

Who's the artist or band who does this tune? Anybody know where to find the Sheet Music to this song. Couldn't find in the fakebook.

[Frankieireland]

Nobody knows who wrote this. it's as old as the hills. made famour during o'neills nine year war with the english which resulted in the flight of the earls, which resulted in the ulster plantation which resulted in northern ireland. look up the horslips famous rendering of it: "dearg doom" or red doom. enjoy.

[that70scientist]

@slimpickensrx Horslips use the tune as a guitar riff in their song 'An Dearg Donn'?

[scunnerd25]

The only pictish word left today is ALBA whitch means scotland no one knows what the picts spoke because as the gaelic spread along with christianity it died out

[acass04]

@scunnerd25 i thought alba came from allbán as in white cliffs. the romans called the tribes in ireland scotti major, and scotland scotti minor. We spoke the exact same form of gaelic up untilthe 1650's. we speak Q celtic, the scots c celtic, and the welsh speak P celtic. its all based on our respective words for HEAD. Abú Uí Neill

[scunnerd25]

people you really have to brush up on you're celtic past the picts were the first in scotland and they had a few scandanavians in there too the romans named the scotti but the new thinking is that they were not irish they spoke gaelic so the romans thought they were the same. irish gaelic and scots gaelic are simillar but not the same i think its about 70% probably due to those scandanavians again.

[luap1979]

the term scotti refers to the people who inhabited the Irish cultural province of Dal Riada. These people raided Roman Britain, the Romans called them scotti and knew where they came from. It's from them that scots Gaelic comes. They were Irish.

[gaelicpiper]

Being Gaelic speaking I can tell you that Irish & Scots Gaelic is about 99% the same and the differences there are occur mainly when written-spelling & grammar.The first inhabitants of Scotland was ancient neolithic man and at the time of the Picts there was also large numbers of Brythionic Celts in Scotland.Your Scandinavians came quite late on.There are also no Scandinavian words of note in any Gaelic language and they interbred with mainly Gaelic Scots rather than the more Southernly Picts.

[Frankieireland]

the irish word for rabbit is the exact same as the danish word for it: coinín. We do have some common words. Uí néil abú.

[EternianIrish]

@Frankieireland Rabbits, like frogs, aren't native to Ireland. It makes sense that the words are imported from abroad.

[NASTYVO1D]

yeah-imagine 200 pipers,bodhráns and the roar of ten thousand at your back. Id fancy me chances against anyone!

[Frankieireland]

totally.this should be played in irish dressing rooms before playing any sport against anyone, the players would be fit to tear the heads off of the opposition.

[lukessummerguitar]

And the tune O'neill's march was most famously used by Horslips for their classic song "Dearg Doom" 1973..and Silly Wizard's "Donald McGillavry" 1979.

Long live the Scot's and Irish!

[ThomasCarvill]

Which was in turn famously used for "Put 'Em Under Pressure" for the 1990 World Cup

[JONeill001]

ONeill abu, McNeill being the scottish version so same gaelic race, Good choice of fight scene as the ONeill was the one's the english feared the most TIOCFAIDH AR LA

[NASTYVO1D]

yeah -the O Neills gave em a run 4 it allright plus i had to use braveheart due to severe shortage of 12th century video footage,lol

[MarioStar64]

LoL! Irish music over a Scotish film?

[malismad]

Well yeah, James Horner used uilleann pipes for the Braveheart soundtrack and the film is American. The Scots and Irish are also quite similar so in short, fuck up.

[lukessummerguitar]

MarioStar64 it was filmed in Ireland and practically ever single extra and most of the lead actors are Irish (David O'Hara - Stephen, Sean McGinley - MacClannough, Peter Hanly - Edward, Prince of Wales, Brendan Gleeson - Hamish Campbell, Tommy Flanagan - Morrison, Sean Lawlor - Malcolm Wallace) or of Irish descent ( Mel Gibson - William Wallace, Brian Cox - Argyle Wallace, Patrick McGoohan - Edward Longshanks)...

[mcveigh1598]

The Scots by origin were Gaelic speaking Irish people who conquered N Britain thus giving there name to Scotland. Scotish and Irish Gaelic culture and music is similar because of this historical link e.g. Scottish Gaelic is an offshoot of Irish Gaelic

[NASTYVO1D]

yeah,there was an Irish clan called the Scotii. Guess where they moved to

[sorrowsingsoftly]

Actually, the Irish tribe the Scotii moved into what is now England, named the place after them. The inhabitants were previously known as the Picts.

[SiggiNebel]

The Scots are a mixture (historically in some respects actually rather a conglomeration) of mainly four ethnical groups, Brythonics, Picts, Gaels and Anglians, but the name "scots" is derivated from the Irish gaels (called "scoti" by the Romans) who began first to raid than to colonize the western parts of Scotland after the Romans had abandonned Britain about 400 AD. At a certain time in the middle ages all these groups partly agreed and partly were forced to form a united kingdom.

[SABRETO0TH117]

What is this horseshit?

[NASTYVO1D]

I know séan o riada had a lot to do with this version,not sure about mcgillavry-could be.Good tune though

[lugh100]

Surely this is by Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Laighean and not the Chieftains. However I do think some members of the Chieftains came from CCL originally. Great post and good to hear it. Go raibh maigh agat.

[NASTYVO1D]

Thanks for the comment Lugh. I heard this live once by Ceolteoiri na hEireann and it really gets the blood going. So it had to go on youtube ;)

[lugh100]

Nice tribute to a great Irish clan.

[NASTYVO1D]

Sean O Riada & The chieftains,yup

[Rauland86]

The Chieftains?

[NASTYVO1D]

Sean O Riada

[Proximo2001]

Sean O Riada composed it,The Chieftains performed it.

[NASTYVO1D]

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