The Fields Of Athenry - Paddy Reilly [10/11]

a great performance live on RTE's FESTIVAL fOLK around 1982.

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Music

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• Irish
• folk
• music
• paddy
• reilly
• live
• national
• stadium
• dublin
• fields
• of
• athenry

[Balenza345]

Will Irish people ever learn to bury their hatred of the English?

[IrishandFolkmusic]

@Balenza345 Depends what you mean by hatred, because this song portrays sorrow, a man who was taken away from his home and sent to a penal colony. We remember the past and because of it we have fantastic music.

[max1000xx]

@Balenza345 this is 2 people in love getting pulled apart against their will, over the petty crime of stealing food to feed their children. and its not english people who are hated, it was their goverment ruling/punishisment of the time represented in the song that is hated. most english people i know are good people, i'd even call a few friends. (u can find an asshole every country ur in, even ireland),

[rastabluespliff]

im an irish man i dont hate the english i hate what they done too my people for 800 years but the joe soap on the street didnt do it

[KARLOB84]

@Balenza345 your a fookin idiot and I am English.

[KyleFarsante]

nothing matters when you're free... Paddy Reily is a great singer with a true Irish soul and a true Irish voice! Thanks him for his music! Hello from Russia!

[johnfoconnor]

@Balenza345

Irish people do not hate English people, we never did. Take a look at how we welcomed her Majesty last May.

We like independence, we like freedom; but above all we like to know that individuals will be treated justly and fairly.

And that is what we always teach out sons and daughters, be free.

[jhayes389]

the english abolished slavery then they invented transportation'

haha

[joningle]

@joningle HAPLOGROUP: R1B1B2

[joningle]

@joningle Ancient ancestry:

The European Travelers

Haplogroup:

J1 This is mine before you ask

[joningle]

@3tangle3 you my friend are a complete dick ,I am not talking pre-history, why are you going back to the ice age to comment on political events that happened only centuries ago , it seem you have totally missed the point,English history only goes back less than 2000 years , the Angles the saxons and the jutes , ethnically cleansed the indiginous celts, there were no english here 12000 years ago, you obviously have mickey mouse degree, and god knows what haplo group you belong to,

[3tangle3]

@joningle I am confused.... you have told me very basic history from relatively modern times......england used to speak a form of "old welsh" (WHICH THEY TRY TO CALL romano british cos the state cant face the fact it wasnt english). England was celtic....the irish famine is very recent.....english history is at least 12000 years old....english culture is a thin veneer on British history....time to read up bud....I have a masters in genetics of the british isles

[joningle]

@3tangle3 @3tangle3 you dont know a lot ,where do you think all the Irish came to live from the famine onwards, 50 percent of Liverpools population have Irish Ancestry thats a fact, the Welsh name of Liverpool was over 1200 hundred years ago and thats only a theory ,and what the hell has London got to do with being English, All Im saying is that all the english should not be tarred with the same brush because of history,