Let Erin Remember/ O'Donnell Abu

[TheGrengds]

as an O'Donnell, who is totally loyal to england, 2nd gemeration, and proud of his irish roots, the idea that irland and england are foreign interests me, cos all micks and english have the same values as each other as i see it, and are closer than any irish nationalist or english patriot can comfortably dein as true, just my interpretation, but i know i am correct, all people are good on the whole

[juliusheide88]

@TheGrengds Not really, you're just a dirty sasanach, you should lose the O' in your name and change to Donnellson.

[rock280258]

Irish War pipies (bagpipes) are well documented from the medieval era. If you goggle john derrick tudor artist irish tudor woodcuts you'll actually see many woodcut etchings with the Irish war pipe featured.

[dcconsi]

no more peace

[fionndan]

i find it strange (good, not bad) that irish americans adopt the image of the kilt and the great pipes (rather than other kinds of pipes more associated with ireland) as icons of irishness. have i understood this correctly ?

you see, that sound and sight reminds me of one thing. Scottish regiments of the British army.

[jarsonist]

@fionndan The USA used to be a British colony. The police, firefighters and army of the USA have traditions which date back to before 1776, ie to when America declared independence. Later huge amounts of Irish immigrated to the USA. The institutions in the USA most associated with Irish-Americans are police, firefighters and army.

[jeffhegarty]

Not all bagpipes are Scottish, methinks, but I see where you're coming from. A casual observer could make this mistake easily.

[Crowkeragh]

well stated Jeff, i'm not making a case from whence the bagpipes appeared, however there are numerous Irish historical accounts relating to bagpipes in Ireland pre dating the arrival of the instrument in Scotland, oldest carbon dated pipes found in Co Wicklow a few years ago etc, ...where is your surname from?

[jeffhegarty]

@Crowkeragh It's just part of my online name, taken from a great-grandfather whose birthplace I haven't located as of yet. I'm from Cork, as are my father's entire family, with some Clare and Waterford on my mother's side. There's even a legend that I may have a Cromwellian soldier in my family tree who descendants converted to Catholicism and went native.

[Moons44]

nice set...both songs compliment each other. I throughly enjoyed it!

[davnet13]

beautiful

[mich890]

very nice set. I am learning O'donnell Abu at this time.