This song means so much to me in so many different ways. However, when it comes to love, it's so much more important. Effectively it's a puritanical song about how we all tire of life and want to escape to be with another spirit but essentially it's also how we must really take care of eachother and stop this madness. Dare I say it wont ever happen but we live in hope. Peace x
@Rexkwando1 Divide and Rule... little changes clearly those were the Cards played by the Imperialists for a pastime around the globe... from Belfast to Basra...the really pity is it's still going on...His Lyrics do not Challenge those that were the source of the festering sore which was the root cause of the troubles in Northern Ireland...Generations Neo fascist governance..backed up by Westminster....this was the root cause of the conflict in the first place....
Those young rascals in Belfast still haven't understood in 2011 what Paul Brady was singing about some twenty years ago. Please love thy neighbour and love your beautiful country, be it Northern Ireland or the republic. You live in paradise; please don't turn it into hell again!
i love paul, but sry Celtic Thunder sang it better. and iv heard paul sing it 1st, way b4 celtic thunder did. just so yous knows. no disrespect to Paul Brady .
My sister-in-law used to work in a major Belfast hotel ("the most bombed hotel in Europe" ring any bells?) and says with authority that Paul Brady was a cunt. Good music though.
@telboy1966manu- Haha your sister wasn't wrong. Met him in 08. Seemed to find a fan giving him a compliment an utterly painful experience. Unfortunatly seems to be the case with alot of gifted people.
This is good....I love the instrumentals. Very pretty. And for all the people saying that Keith Harkin has no passion or understanding for this song...I beg to differ. Keith is from Derry, Northern Ireland; he's even mentioned the Bloody Sunday incident. And if you watch the video of his version, you can hear the emotion and passion in his voice.
Beoy999, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. The effect of the english on Ireland has been well documented over hundreds of years. Perhaps you should consult the history books before making an ill informed statement. As for your argument about England giving us language etc, Irish folk music exists as a style of music, the language, instruments are irrelevant. Aside from the fact that the Irish language is also used in folk and the fact that there are so many wonderful aspects
To the previous commenter. You say the only thing decent we have comes from the English or other foreign bases, yet here u r commenting on an Irish folk song, did the english bring us this?
@offmyswede I've hurt some people. the language, the piano hes playing on not originally from ireland the style of guitar in the middle-but thats just petty, comment boards isn't the place to have a conversation. I'm Irish but i see things the way they are history is interesting non biased history that is.
@Beoy999 You're Irish? You're Irish?? I'm sorry, but you're not coming across here as Irish. Everything that ever was and ever will be came from England?
This saddens me more than I can say. We, of the Celtic "race," are so far removed from the Brits. We're nothing like them. Our lore and music and humor and spirit are expressly Celtic in a way that most of the world envies and admires.
If you give a man a pile of sand and he creates something wonderful, it's not your creation, it's his.....
the dissidents want this misery again destroying our lives.
they are deluding young vulnerable minds for a pointless cause. im irish and hate the idea of a 'united ireland'. anything decent we have came from English bases or other foreign places that truth hurts many who have little to offer anyone.
Alot of memories are associated with this song for me. It was used at the end of a production of Romeo and Juliet at Stagecoach. Got me and my Juliet sobbing onstage. Not very convenient when you're trying to play dead! But an amazing song nonetheless. I'm glad someone finally recognised as a love song on these comments though. :)
shit this got me crying rememebr that day in omagh well, too well. tears of pain and hope. great song what more can anyone say about this song classic!
All celtic thunder fans should realise that this guy was going around the world singing this song when people were being killed every night on the streets of our beutiful country and it may not be fashionable to make a statement like this one. As a guitar player he is amazing. As a singer he is fantastic. As a songwriter he is up there with the very best. Keith is good but nobody will ever match Paul. Check out more of him this is a great song but he has plenty just as good.
Pauls song misrepresents the facts of our recient history known as 'The Troubles' that same was merely tribal in nature, and does infact leave the Unionist hegemony and also the main player Britian off the hook. Since the foundation of that Neo-fascist statelet the minority community struggled to get their heads up and were subjected to the Full Force of those Sectarian despots masquerading as Democrats what a joke! Britian eventually came to the table seeing need to make peace not war!
@malachy1847 its actually a love song set in the north which indirectly has a theme based on the troubles in the north as at the time it could not be avoided as it was all around.
@malachy1847 You can believe that tripe if you want. I saw thirty years of Irish men and Irish women killing each other to achieve nothing that could not have been got by 1975 or 1980 at the cost of no deaths whatsoever. As the man said the GFA was Sunningdale for Slow Learners and it seems some are slower than others. Fair play to Paul, though, for saying some difficult things that needed to be said.
@zx80user The cause of the problems may have been addressed with reform but the nature of the state dictated that reform was never an option for that racist despotic regime..Was it not the Unionists that blew sunningdale out of the water over with their bickerings over 'The council of Ireland and the Republics Articlies 2&3... later came the U.W.C. strike...and same not being faced down by Harold Wilson&co.. all the while Internment/ detention orders were being signed by Faulkner for a pastime
@malachy1847 I am old enough to remember the IRA doping their bit to help the UWC strike by hijacking buses full of school kids on the Falls Road. Your language - calling the NI state "fascist", "racist despotic regime" etc, suggests you are either from the muppet Marxist factory that produced the likes of Michael Farrell and the PD wannabes or you haven't got a clue. "Reform was never an option" is an utter lie - reform had already started. Too slow for sure...
@zx80user A Fascist state...Draw up on a secterian headcount carved out of the province of 'Ulster' ... with Craigavon... and lord Brookeborough at the Helm,their speeches at 'The Field' on the Twelth would Sir oswald Mosely a run for his money...Plus Pogroms,Gerrymandering, Lack of 'Universal , The 'B' Men and the Orange Order running the show... what are the traits of Fascist regime you don't understand!....Regarding reform who shafted O'Niell..
@theloudhalo [ Lol.....Assuredly i would be..neither drunk ,l or physically challanged]..........I would suggest that the Orange/Unionist Hegemony who missruled two thirds of the province of Ulster / Northern Ireland for a pastime for generations.. could be correctly seen as having all the Hallmarks of a fully functioning Fascist and Sectarian regime in equal measures until their timely implosion... ....
@malachy1847 Hi. As a southerner who lived up North at the end of the troubles, I think I can say that I observed a thing or two. You cannot write of all Unionists or Protestants off as being like that. They weren't! Down south we had our way of looking at things, up North there were different ways, on both sides. For sure there was an unacceptable level of injustice, but living in the past is good for no one. Either way this song crossed over and said something useful to all people. Thats all!
@Shanx1975 History tells us that of the state was set up to create and preserve the Unionist Monolith. It was drawn up on a secterian headcount carved out of the Province of 'Ulster' to create a happy cozy Tribal Homeland ruled by Mill owners,Industrialists and Merchant Princes.. The State was indeed a perversion of Democracy but pretending outherwise the Full forces of the state were picthed against those looking for reform, including their own This was the very reason for 'The Troubles'
Probably on of the few good things to come from our troubled past is the songs and stories that cannot be matched. Take a bow paul your my hero and this is unrivaled.
Hey nice comment. I agree. Nice to meet all you Irish folk, so it seems actually from Ireland .. grand! am from US but irish too! hehehe AZ lady here Paul Brady is hard to express in words how grand he is full stop. Cara Dillon is good too!
What a beautiful song. Could be about anywhere there is horror ...Derry, Gaza Strip, Omagh or Iraq. Hard not to be reduced to tears listening and seeing the images on screen. Congrats, Paul
I originally heard Keith Harkin's versin of this song, and I think it's beautiful and so sad. Congrats to Paul Brady-- I wish I could write a song anywhere near this. However, I like Keith Harkin singing it. Maybe it's because I can see him when he sings it, and he's said how much singing this song means to him. But the instrumentals here are beautiful.
PS-- to all Celtic Thunder fans, it really might help if you stopped bashing the original singers, or add a word of how nice the song is.
does it really matter where he was when he wrote this its amazin...by the way ire land was a real country before the british decided to divideit ..and it will be a country again even if its after we are gone...ireland ..she has all the time in the world.. she can wait....
1liamgreig - an honest question for you, and I'm not trying to be smart asking you this. It's genuine. It costs Britain 5 billion a year to run Northern Ireland. How would you feel about the colossal rise in Irish income tax to fund the 5 Billion required should we be united, and how do you feel the general Irish public would feel about this - particularly in the current economical climate where the recession is mauling Ireland. Do you think N.Ireland's resources are enough to earn that back ?
it seems peculiar that most other people who listen to this song are touched by its honesty and truth in relation to war and connecting as human beings; yet you seemingly still hold on to anger...who is better off? those who choose forgiveness and love of mankind or those who suffer endlessly through hatred?
and you probably think Joyce's Dubliners was shit because he wrote it from Paris? Sometimes stepping away from a situation allows you gain perspective. This is a beautiful song regardless.
What an intelligent reply captain very impressed that you can type more than the F- word- And there was me thinking you had a screwtop too many and written quote -"shut the fu@k up" unquote so what do represent captain sensible?
Don't blame religion. Both are christian religions. Where does it say in either religion that killing is ok?? If it wasn't religion it'd be colour, race or football teams.
Whenever i hear this song, it reinforces the wish i have to see that one day men will cease to crave finding excuses for violence and hatred, and realize that there are always alternatives, always. Rarely are we presented with limited or zero choice in deciding our actions.
Paul Brady is a wonderful songwriter. His own rendition is deeply stirring, and comes from a place inside his creative mind and heart. I like Keith Harkins version, because it is from a contemporary artist with a pure, plaintive voice. I guarantee you, that Paul Brady was blown away by Keith's version as it was sung in such a masterful way. Keith's voice did nothing to take away from this beautiful performance by the author himself.
Keith Harkin of Celtic Thunder did a fantastic job on this song, he's a better singer than Paul Brady - I'll bet even Paul Brady will concede that. However, since Brady wrote it he understands the song better than anyone else, so his is the definitive version.
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Keith Harkin does a perfect rendition of this sad, beautiful Brady song. I'm sure Brady would say the same thing..a writer he was...a singer he 'aint'. Keith is both.
Don't talk shite. Keith Harkin is a boyband tosser. Paul Brady is real deal. It is Paul Brady that makes this song what it is. Not some little pup who couldn't write a song 1/1000000000000th as good as this.
...wow...that was amazing...and while I love the Celtic Thunder version this seems to strike a completely different chord with me and it makes it that much more powerful.
This song isn't just about religion. It's about cultural divisiveness, and challenging entrenched viewpoints proffered by our so-called leaders. It draws direct comparisons between conflicted areas in the Middle-East and Irelands troubled past. Interestingly enough the Lebanon has gotten a lot of it's act together since this was written.
Quite simply an incredibly moving song written by a man who was devastated by the carnage all around him.
nicely put,the song really shows how stupid it is killing each other. I want a united Ireland but i dont want to see another death beacause of it. Its funny because when i travelle i realised how similar we are. yet we fight over small things. sad really.
I'd like to see a united Ireland, an inclusive Ireland where everybody is accepted, it doesn't really matter whose laws your governed by in the end, as long as those laws are fair and don't discriminate. I think we still have a long time to go however.
I`m so sad thinking all these images and music because I really love this song. But still, Happy Xmas everybody, especially you my Irish friends all over the world
Pitty he didn't recognise Strabane a little more! - you can take the boy out of Strabane, but you can't take the Strabane out of the boy.
Last verse:
"Now I know us plain folks don't see all the story And I know this peace and love's just copping out -And I guess these young boys dying in the ditches Is just what being free is all about -And how this twisted wreckage down on main street -Will bring us all together in the end And we'll go marching down the road to freedom Freedom"
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He left Straane in 1965 went to dublin and in during bloody sunday was in London then pissed off to New York. We haven't seem him here since. The only petrol bomb he seen was on TV. Touring soilders stayed longer!! With regards
it clearly does matter, and its more complicated than religion, as the use of hes a catholic or hes a protestant is just a way of representing and describing 10 or more generalisations about that person and it sure isnt over NOTHING
I might agree with the first part of your comment, but I think that you can tell that Celtic Thunders singer is touched by the meaning of the song. After all, he is from Northern Ireland.
awh im singing this song at a funeral tomorrow and this is the first time iv heard it ! its such an amazing song ! wow ! wish me luck ! hope i can do it justice !
3:13 Inishbofin graveyard where my granddad will be laid to rest tomorrow RIP Granddad you are with Nana now <3
TheGalwaygirl18 22 hours ago
love this song, anyone realise how this is quite fitting for manhattan too?
exomorphe 2 days ago
An absolutely superbly crafted song, and a performance to match, about a desperately sad conflict.
No wonder that Paul Brady is one of Bob Dylan's favourite songwriters.
TerrySleeper 2 weeks ago
Brady, A unified solution to the divide
stickypool 1 month ago
This is one of if not the most gorgeous song ever, it has me in floods of tears every time I hear it.
upfrontbear74 3 months ago
One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
MrMEGATRON79 3 months ago 2
Tune and a half.
malismad 3 months ago 2
My dad used to play this all the time when I was young. Brings back a lot of memories.
spectatape 4 months ago
wow!
mfealy 4 months ago
This song means so much to me in so many different ways. However, when it comes to love, it's so much more important. Effectively it's a puritanical song about how we all tire of life and want to escape to be with another spirit but essentially it's also how we must really take care of eachother and stop this madness. Dare I say it wont ever happen but we live in hope. Peace x
Rexkwando13 5 months ago
@Rexkwando1 Divide and Rule... little changes clearly those were the Cards played by the Imperialists for a pastime around the globe... from Belfast to Basra...the really pity is it's still going on...His Lyrics do not Challenge those that were the source of the festering sore which was the root cause of the troubles in Northern Ireland...Generations Neo fascist governance..backed up by Westminster....this was the root cause of the conflict in the first place....
malachy1847 3 days ago
Thankfully we no longer have this carnage and senseless violance and blood on our hands songs like this make us feel the pain of those times keenly.
bernie129 5 months ago
Anyone know where I can get the piano score of this
stumby12 5 months ago
Those young rascals in Belfast still haven't understood in 2011 what Paul Brady was singing about some twenty years ago. Please love thy neighbour and love your beautiful country, be it Northern Ireland or the republic. You live in paradise; please don't turn it into hell again!
desolexnl 6 months ago 14
strabane co tyrone
MrSUPERJACK2010 7 months ago
i cant stop listening to this
beanaldo 7 months ago
Judging by the way he pronounces "carve", I guess Paul Brady is from Kounty Kyaavan!
Shtove 8 months ago 2
@Shtove He's from Donegal, I believe
ioregan 8 months ago
@ioregan Sorry he's not. He's from Strabane which is in County Tyrone
gerrythelad 1 week ago
Brilliant song Heartbreaking situation
My favourite of PB Tune is Crazy Dreams
nanny999999 8 months ago
WHO WROTE THIS SONG ONLY EVER HEARD IT BY DOLORAS KEANE
nanny999999 9 months ago
@nanny999999 Paul Brady wrote it. This is the original. And when you consider the meaning of the song and its personal words, its the best version
lauramca91 8 months ago
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lauramca91 8 months ago
@nanny999999 Paul brady
mrdoonbeg 8 months ago
Who wrote thi song only ever heard it by Dolore Keane
PB NOT BAD
nanny999999 9 months ago
#notinmyname
rtenewsonone 9 months ago
i love paul, but sry Celtic Thunder sang it better. and iv heard paul sing it 1st, way b4 celtic thunder did. just so yous knows. no disrespect to Paul Brady .
me42ol0vermc 10 months ago
@me42ol0vermc That's your opinion, and your more than intilted to it. Respect
uuutwohere 10 months ago
My sister-in-law used to work in a major Belfast hotel ("the most bombed hotel in Europe" ring any bells?) and says with authority that Paul Brady was a cunt. Good music though.
telboy1966manu 1 year ago
@telboy1966manu- Haha your sister wasn't wrong. Met him in 08. Seemed to find a fan giving him a compliment an utterly painful experience. Unfortunatly seems to be the case with alot of gifted people.
Aoifkat 10 months ago
My dad showed me this song , ive loved it ever since .
MissUnique97 1 year ago
This is good....I love the instrumentals. Very pretty. And for all the people saying that Keith Harkin has no passion or understanding for this song...I beg to differ. Keith is from Derry, Northern Ireland; he's even mentioned the Bloody Sunday incident. And if you watch the video of his version, you can hear the emotion and passion in his voice.
TheMusicRocks14 1 year ago
MAL ITS TIME TO MOVE ON I KNOW ITS NOT EASY BUT A LOT OF SUFFERING HAS TAKEN PLACE ALL OVER THE WORLD AND WILL WHEN YOU AND I ARE GONE.
MICHAELCAMPBELL69 1 year ago
absaloutly class song!!! great story behind it and savage singing!!!
cavanaccordion1 1 year ago
trash with no education
smrndoff 1 year ago
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smrndoff 1 year ago
Anyone know where I could find a MIDI file for this? I'd love to play i but can't find one anywhere, well a free one that is
Kydos37 1 year ago
Thgs is a music video chanell FFS. Can't you all just listen and enjoy; take the politics elsewhere.
waterpoet57 1 year ago
never a dry eye when i hear this song...
No More war in Ireland.PLEASE NO MORE HURT,
ireland3310 1 year ago
what a song
rcmd3 1 year ago
thanks.
Beoy999 1 year ago
Sad but beautiful song, and a very well put together video. Well done GMarie4!
TribalChurch 1 year ago
If so called lovers of Ireland's freedom kill people for what they might call the cause then i completely disagree - no one should die - please don't
mooners40 1 year ago
Beoy999, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. The effect of the english on Ireland has been well documented over hundreds of years. Perhaps you should consult the history books before making an ill informed statement. As for your argument about England giving us language etc, Irish folk music exists as a style of music, the language, instruments are irrelevant. Aside from the fact that the Irish language is also used in folk and the fact that there are so many wonderful aspects
offmyswede 1 year ago
To the previous commenter. You say the only thing decent we have comes from the English or other foreign bases, yet here u r commenting on an Irish folk song, did the english bring us this?
offmyswede 1 year ago
@offmyswede I've hurt some people. the language, the piano hes playing on not originally from ireland the style of guitar in the middle-but thats just petty, comment boards isn't the place to have a conversation. I'm Irish but i see things the way they are history is interesting non biased history that is.
Beoy999 1 year ago
@Beoy999 You're Irish? You're Irish?? I'm sorry, but you're not coming across here as Irish. Everything that ever was and ever will be came from England?
This saddens me more than I can say. We, of the Celtic "race," are so far removed from the Brits. We're nothing like them. Our lore and music and humor and spirit are expressly Celtic in a way that most of the world envies and admires.
If you give a man a pile of sand and he creates something wonderful, it's not your creation, it's his.....
cqsallie 1 year ago
@cqsallie If you give a man a pile of sand and he creates something wonderful, it's not your creation, it's his..... My new favourite quote
aftermath842 1 year ago
@aftermath842 I love that quote! How many people have crafted a life out of nothing?
Thank you for a quote I'd love to re-quote. Is it your's?
Sallie
cqsallie 1 year ago
the dissidents want this misery again destroying our lives.
they are deluding young vulnerable minds for a pointless cause. im irish and hate the idea of a 'united ireland'. anything decent we have came from English bases or other foreign places that truth hurts many who have little to offer anyone.
Beoy999 1 year ago
@Beoy999 you need a history lesson kid we had a high civilisation when the british
savages were running naked
LIMERICKNAT1 1 year ago
@LIMERICKNAT1 If that makes you feel better.
Beoy999 1 year ago
@LIMERICKNAT1 you fucking said it buddy!
millercork 1 year ago
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@Beoy999 You are so full of shit !!
nk11090 1 year ago
I heard this song on Weekend Wogan when Marti Pellow sung it and it made me love this song.
sdr3001 1 year ago
sums up the whole history and political situation of our country if you ask me, the man is a visionary
phatcontrolla 1 year ago
First heard this song, on an Irish compilation CD, and it had me in tears, one of the most gorgeous songs ever written.
upfrontbear74 1 year ago
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One of the three best Irish songs ever written and sung
Paul Brady- The Island
Luke Kelly- On Raglan Road
U2- One
In one particular order
KrackowKid 1 year ago
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One of the three best Irish songs ever written and sung
Paul Brady- The Island
Luke Kelly- On Raglan Road
U2- One
In no particular order
KrackowKid 1 year ago
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KrackowKid 1 year ago
GREAT TUNES MR BRADY
MrDmc73 1 year ago 5
dick and balls
eamongerard 1 year ago
rip johny donagh
lisara865 1 year ago
reminds me of home definitely worth a few million views
jmcsbc 1 year ago
Shut up and enjoy the music!!
WillyDIreland 1 year ago
Alot of memories are associated with this song for me. It was used at the end of a production of Romeo and Juliet at Stagecoach. Got me and my Juliet sobbing onstage. Not very convenient when you're trying to play dead! But an amazing song nonetheless. I'm glad someone finally recognised as a love song on these comments though. :)
Parketroth 1 year ago
Thanks for my songs . I liked them both. This is my response. Both your songs put me in mind of this guy ........ Paul brady
davidwbarron 1 year ago
shit this got me crying rememebr that day in omagh well, too well. tears of pain and hope. great song what more can anyone say about this song classic!
Beoy999 1 year ago 6
my dad loved this song r.i.p paddy
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ShoeanRoque 1 year ago
All celtic thunder fans should realise that this guy was going around the world singing this song when people were being killed every night on the streets of our beutiful country and it may not be fashionable to make a statement like this one. As a guitar player he is amazing. As a singer he is fantastic. As a songwriter he is up there with the very best. Keith is good but nobody will ever match Paul. Check out more of him this is a great song but he has plenty just as good.
aftermath842 2 years ago 49
Pauls song misrepresents the facts of our recient history known as 'The Troubles' that same was merely tribal in nature, and does infact leave the Unionist hegemony and also the main player Britian off the hook. Since the foundation of that Neo-fascist statelet the minority community struggled to get their heads up and were subjected to the Full Force of those Sectarian despots masquerading as Democrats what a joke! Britian eventually came to the table seeing need to make peace not war!
malachy1847 1 year ago
@malachy1847 its actually a love song set in the north which indirectly has a theme based on the troubles in the north as at the time it could not be avoided as it was all around.
aftermath842 1 year ago 3
@aftermath842 Many Mingled meanings, for the meandering mind
WyzDat 1 year ago
@malachy1847 You can believe that tripe if you want. I saw thirty years of Irish men and Irish women killing each other to achieve nothing that could not have been got by 1975 or 1980 at the cost of no deaths whatsoever. As the man said the GFA was Sunningdale for Slow Learners and it seems some are slower than others. Fair play to Paul, though, for saying some difficult things that needed to be said.
zx80user 1 year ago
@zx80user The cause of the problems may have been addressed with reform but the nature of the state dictated that reform was never an option for that racist despotic regime..Was it not the Unionists that blew sunningdale out of the water over with their bickerings over 'The council of Ireland and the Republics Articlies 2&3... later came the U.W.C. strike...and same not being faced down by Harold Wilson&co.. all the while Internment/ detention orders were being signed by Faulkner for a pastime
malachy1847 1 year ago
@malachy1847 I am old enough to remember the IRA doping their bit to help the UWC strike by hijacking buses full of school kids on the Falls Road. Your language - calling the NI state "fascist", "racist despotic regime" etc, suggests you are either from the muppet Marxist factory that produced the likes of Michael Farrell and the PD wannabes or you haven't got a clue. "Reform was never an option" is an utter lie - reform had already started. Too slow for sure...
zx80user 1 year ago
@zx80user A Fascist state...Draw up on a secterian headcount carved out of the province of 'Ulster' ... with Craigavon... and lord Brookeborough at the Helm,their speeches at 'The Field' on the Twelth would Sir oswald Mosely a run for his money...Plus Pogroms,Gerrymandering, Lack of 'Universal , The 'B' Men and the Orange Order running the show... what are the traits of Fascist regime you don't understand!....Regarding reform who shafted O'Niell..
malachy1847 1 year ago
@zx80user I meant to say 'Universal Sufrage'[one Man One Vote]
malachy1847 1 year ago
@malachy1847 Sober up you twerp.
You meant to say this, that and the other thing - you talk about a Fascist state - and in the next breath you talk about a "secterian" headcount.
Who's counting? Obviously you are.
I rest my case.
theloudhalo 1 year ago
@theloudhalo [ Lol.....Assuredly i would be..neither drunk ,l or physically challanged]..........I would suggest that the Orange/Unionist Hegemony who missruled two thirds of the province of Ulster / Northern Ireland for a pastime for generations.. could be correctly seen as having all the Hallmarks of a fully functioning Fascist and Sectarian regime in equal measures until their timely implosion... ....
malachy1847 1 year ago
@malachy1847 Hi. As a southerner who lived up North at the end of the troubles, I think I can say that I observed a thing or two. You cannot write of all Unionists or Protestants off as being like that. They weren't! Down south we had our way of looking at things, up North there were different ways, on both sides. For sure there was an unacceptable level of injustice, but living in the past is good for no one. Either way this song crossed over and said something useful to all people. Thats all!
Shanx1975 1 year ago
@Shanx1975 History tells us that of the state was set up to create and preserve the Unionist Monolith. It was drawn up on a secterian headcount carved out of the Province of 'Ulster' to create a happy cozy Tribal Homeland ruled by Mill owners,Industrialists and Merchant Princes.. The State was indeed a perversion of Democracy but pretending outherwise the Full forces of the state were picthed against those looking for reform, including their own This was the very reason for 'The Troubles'
malachy1847 1 year ago
@aftermath842
Who the hell's Keith Harkin? I have heard him once and he sounded like Paul Brady on Helium - which believe me - is not a good sound (sorry Paul)
theloudhalo 1 year ago
Probably on of the few good things to come from our troubled past is the songs and stories that cannot be matched. Take a bow paul your my hero and this is unrivaled.
aftermath842 2 years ago 16
Hey nice comment. I agree. Nice to meet all you Irish folk, so it seems actually from Ireland .. grand! am from US but irish too! hehehe AZ lady here Paul Brady is hard to express in words how grand he is full stop. Cara Dillon is good too!
slinkykel 2 years ago 2
What a beautiful song. Could be about anywhere there is horror ...Derry, Gaza Strip, Omagh or Iraq. Hard not to be reduced to tears listening and seeing the images on screen. Congrats, Paul
Petroskeyful 2 years ago 2
Brill song , and a musican , check out ma bg and a pianist ...T.A.L
SEAJEA6560 2 years ago
Ireland (north) to you boy and all unionists (no border) No line on the map of Ireland
sainglain 2 years ago
i played a song with him one night in a pub in sligo best night of my life
mentalthing1991 2 years ago
I originally heard Keith Harkin's versin of this song, and I think it's beautiful and so sad. Congrats to Paul Brady-- I wish I could write a song anywhere near this. However, I like Keith Harkin singing it. Maybe it's because I can see him when he sings it, and he's said how much singing this song means to him. But the instrumentals here are beautiful.
PS-- to all Celtic Thunder fans, it really might help if you stopped bashing the original singers, or add a word of how nice the song is.
NuiteNoire 2 years ago 3
best song to come out of northern ireland
nailshardas 2 years ago
A gorgeous song by Paul Brady illustrating the hardship in Northern Ireland during the troubles
figgarty 2 years ago 5
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get to work you lazy twats.
33longyears 2 years ago
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Tosser!
figgarty 2 years ago
truth hurts?
33longyears 2 years ago
Simply fucking stunning!!! And now I'm homesick.
WillyDIreland 2 years ago 2
does it really matter where he was when he wrote this its amazin...by the way ire land was a real country before the british decided to divideit ..and it will be a country again even if its after we are gone...ireland ..she has all the time in the world.. she can wait....
mirkpiu 2 years ago
1liamgreig - an honest question for you, and I'm not trying to be smart asking you this. It's genuine. It costs Britain 5 billion a year to run Northern Ireland. How would you feel about the colossal rise in Irish income tax to fund the 5 Billion required should we be united, and how do you feel the general Irish public would feel about this - particularly in the current economical climate where the recession is mauling Ireland. Do you think N.Ireland's resources are enough to earn that back ?
AidanParle 2 years ago
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1liamgreig 2 years ago
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1liamgreig 2 years ago
You dont need to live in the island to know all existing troubles and describe them
vsmitson 2 years ago 2
amazing,thankyou Paul,it touched my soul...Achill island
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matinee310 2 years ago
it seems peculiar that most other people who listen to this song are touched by its honesty and truth in relation to war and connecting as human beings; yet you seemingly still hold on to anger...who is better off? those who choose forgiveness and love of mankind or those who suffer endlessly through hatred?
lynneandmickob 2 years ago
and you probably think Joyce's Dubliners was shit because he wrote it from Paris? Sometimes stepping away from a situation allows you gain perspective. This is a beautiful song regardless.
JCIrl 2 years ago 6
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matinee310 2 years ago
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Nice one Fran aged 39 who's favorite video is haircut 100!!!! Jesus check it out before he deletes it off his redneck profile!! LOL
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captainautumn1 2 years ago
What an intelligent reply captain very impressed that you can type more than the F- word- And there was me thinking you had a screwtop too many and written quote -"shut the fu@k up" unquote so what do represent captain sensible?
matinee310 2 years ago
I don't care if this guy was the original singer, Keith Harkin sings this song WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better!
WolframsGirl 2 years ago
Keith who??
TheHelen61 2 years ago 2
keith harkin the real deal over paul brady? right
cardigan3000 2 years ago
BS, Brady is a singer songwriter and to suggest he is not is just plain ignorant and demeans his talent.
mathistim 2 years ago 2
this is totally true and btw he lived through a horrible time in ireland and is singing from his heart and life experience so respect that
nickie22333 2 years ago 2
and keith harkin has completly ruined the song for me he sings it well fast and the is no emotion in the song wen he sings it
nickie22333 2 years ago
i love this song
leonardoandboosh4eva 2 years ago
Deserves a few million views.
WillyDIreland 2 years ago 27
@WillyDIreland i agree cant believe it only have 60 odd thousand
terencef97 1 year ago
In a world torn apart by religion, all around us seem to turn to religion! Stop the cycle. Be here in the morning dew. please!
bigmac9aac 2 years ago 5
Don't blame religion. Both are christian religions. Where does it say in either religion that killing is ok?? If it wasn't religion it'd be colour, race or football teams.
eamonreillydotcom 2 years ago 2
Whenever i hear this song, it reinforces the wish i have to see that one day men will cease to crave finding excuses for violence and hatred, and realize that there are always alternatives, always. Rarely are we presented with limited or zero choice in deciding our actions.
faunandy 2 years ago 2
true. change is the only thing that stays the same. there is always a choice....always!
bigmac9aac 2 years ago
never listened to the lyrics before. This is a beutiful moving song.
ladyneaper 2 years ago
Paul Brady is a wonderful songwriter. His own rendition is deeply stirring, and comes from a place inside his creative mind and heart. I like Keith Harkins version, because it is from a contemporary artist with a pure, plaintive voice. I guarantee you, that Paul Brady was blown away by Keith's version as it was sung in such a masterful way. Keith's voice did nothing to take away from this beautiful performance by the author himself.
cat4uhere 2 years ago 4
good oul limavady rep
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nickie22333 2 years ago
celtic thunder version is in no way better!!Not even close!!This is the best version ever!
lillerman 2 years ago 2
Keith Harkin of Celtic Thunder did a fantastic job on this song, he's a better singer than Paul Brady - I'll bet even Paul Brady will concede that. However, since Brady wrote it he understands the song better than anyone else, so his is the definitive version.
bassidol 2 years ago
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Keith Harkin does a perfect rendition of this sad, beautiful Brady song. I'm sure Brady would say the same thing..a writer he was...a singer he 'aint'. Keith is both.
HelenSSpencer77 2 years ago
Don't talk shite. Keith Harkin is a boyband tosser. Paul Brady is real deal. It is Paul Brady that makes this song what it is. Not some little pup who couldn't write a song 1/1000000000000th as good as this.
rcb0683 2 years ago 2
I agree with ya!
feelmycalves 2 years ago
...wow...that was amazing...and while I love the Celtic Thunder version this seems to strike a completely different chord with me and it makes it that much more powerful.
theatregirl666 2 years ago 2
the celtic thunder version is better
theQtipzz 2 years ago
too much religion and not enough love in the world - fuckin get a grip and live and let live and love - this song says it all
mooners40 2 years ago
Fuck Up evrywannn..
Treasure This Songggg..(:
MAZIN LAK
YeTurd 2 years ago
Simply the best song written about the Troubles ever.
mixxy5alive 2 years ago
A great song by a great artist.
TerrySleeper 2 years ago
If we've learned anything from history, it's that we haven't learned from history.
cmcgrenra 2 years ago 5
here's to the day when North & South are nothing more than points on a compass
wizzyditch 2 years ago 4
This song isn't just about religion. It's about cultural divisiveness, and challenging entrenched viewpoints proffered by our so-called leaders. It draws direct comparisons between conflicted areas in the Middle-East and Irelands troubled past. Interestingly enough the Lebanon has gotten a lot of it's act together since this was written.
Quite simply an incredibly moving song written by a man who was devastated by the carnage all around him.
gerbar61 3 years ago 2
nicely put,the song really shows how stupid it is killing each other. I want a united Ireland but i dont want to see another death beacause of it. Its funny because when i travelle i realised how similar we are. yet we fight over small things. sad really.
bigmacontour 3 years ago
I'd like to see a united Ireland, an inclusive Ireland where everybody is accepted, it doesn't really matter whose laws your governed by in the end, as long as those laws are fair and don't discriminate. I think we still have a long time to go however.
Kieran84ire 2 years ago
i got 1 word fuckin great songwhighting
johnfinbarburke 3 years ago
Thanks Gmarie4
ronhasel 3 years ago
This is a song against the religious dogma which leaves in its disgusting wake a trail of blood and despair. I despise religion it is disgusting.
PeelTower 3 years ago 2
I`m so sad thinking all these images and music because I really love this song. But still, Happy Xmas everybody, especially you my Irish friends all over the world
MitziTintti 3 years ago
the human race never learns,mayhem love terror trust pain happyness and utter dispair,take your pick where mostly water. peter d
dangerouseef 3 years ago
paul brady was born and grew up in strabane, co tyrone,northern ireland so i think he should no wot te song means more so than any1 else
2irish2btrue 3 years ago
Pitty he didn't recognise Strabane a little more! - you can take the boy out of Strabane, but you can't take the Strabane out of the boy.
Last verse:
"Now I know us plain folks don't see all the story And I know this peace and love's just copping out -And I guess these young boys dying in the ditches Is just what being free is all about -And how this twisted wreckage down on main street -Will bring us all together in the end And we'll go marching down the road to freedom Freedom"
matinee310 3 years ago
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He left Straane in 1965 went to dublin and in during bloody sunday was in London then pissed off to New York. We haven't seem him here since. The only petrol bomb he seen was on TV. Touring soilders stayed longer!! With regards
matinee310 2 years ago
Absolutely incredible, and so very sad. So little has changed-there is still so much hate.
treanaiw 3 years ago
GMarie4...THANK YOU for sharing this with all of YT land!
(and Declan, THANK YOU for introducing me to this beautiful song. You always send me gems!)
beautiful0loser 3 years ago
Catholic or Protestant - does it really matter! I live in the North of Ireland and see people on both sides fighting over NOTHING is just stupid!
jim2t6 3 years ago
it clearly does matter, and its more complicated than religion, as the use of hes a catholic or hes a protestant is just a way of representing and describing 10 or more generalisations about that person and it sure isnt over NOTHING
southarmaghdave 3 years ago 3
this song is just amazing
chrisgilroy19 3 years ago
such a beautiful song, sung with such extraordinary passion. Celtic Thunder's version is good, but lacks the passion.
afjlmp 3 years ago
I might agree with the first part of your comment, but I think that you can tell that Celtic Thunders singer is touched by the meaning of the song. After all, he is from Northern Ireland.
sjrlmn 3 years ago
Beautiful song, beautifully played and sung, one of my all-time favourites. Thanks so much for posting this.
telboy1966manu 3 years ago
Thanks GMarie.
Near Rathcoole, N/Abbey. Nth Belfast
BWFSabian 3 years ago
This song is the greatest song about Irish history ever. Legend!!!
draoi99 3 years ago
Mostly Northern..
BWFSabian 3 years ago
bwf sabian;
yeah, the north of IRELAND you dipshit. its all the 1 place
clutchoconnor 3 years ago
LOL well said!
phoenix1916 3 years ago
some people are fuckin thick
clutchoconnor 3 years ago
others just like to stir shit.
Hel89 3 years ago
Its a really lovely song, thanks for sendin it sean
JEANETTE60 3 years ago
Brilliant Songwriter...So sad.
PILGARLIC42 3 years ago
When will we learn the lesson?
SVENSINDEN3 3 years ago
awh im singing this song at a funeral tomorrow and this is the first time iv heard it ! its such an amazing song ! wow ! wish me luck ! hope i can do it justice !
xxclodaghleacyxx 3 years ago 3
sunningdale mark two
kilmorebhoy 3 years ago
music was d best thing to come from d troubles dis is a perfect example great vid too ed dublin
alibri4 3 years ago 2
This song makes me cry. Love the words. Makes you stop and think. G from Belfast. XX
4curiouscatz 3 years ago 2
Great video. Let's hope it is a thing of the past.
lovelytackles 3 years ago 7
quality song...
RonanSheehan 3 years ago 4