A video about the IRA and the fight for Irish independence. Music: Zombie by the Cranberries Video clips: Michael Collins (1996) The Devil's Own (1997) The WInd that Shakes the Barley (2006)
My grand father and his father were nearly shot for speaking Irish, a priest saved them,. They weren't able to speak English and were caught playing hurling on their street by the british. They got a massive fine for that time....
Br'onack sc'eal death'air. I was adopted in the 60's , the adopted parents passed away 4 years ago, my x girlfriend found documents, birth certificate, with my birth name, my true identify, I changed it back asap, I was terrorised, sexually abused by the adopted family as a whole, psychology abused, mentally abused. I was diagnosed with cptsd last year. I don't know if you have heard of cptsd, or another name for it is child trauma. The only people who I trust now are my own people. People should hear these storys! !!😲😲😲😲😲
@@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 because there where still oppression, hatred and norms against the Irish and their culture. For example you could get killed for speaking Irish or showing a sign that you’re Irish.
God bless The Republic of Ireland for ever and ever and all those Irish souls who died of starvation during the famine and during wars can rest in peace 🇮🇪 Greetings from Argentina!
Zombie • The first single from the No Need To Argue album. “Zombie”, being the song that has made The Cranberries world-famous, was written while touring the England in 1993. The subject of the composition is man’s cruelty towards other men, especially children. • Dolores: “‘Zombie’ was inspired by a child’s death. His life was taken in the arm’s of his mother. She was shopping in London last year, and there was a bomb planted in a rubbish bin in London and he happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and he died. The reason the bomb was planted was because of a political territorial kind of thing that goes on in the North of Ireland and the UK. So the references to 1916 was when a contract was signed, which signed away the 6 counties to England. And it still goes on today: the war, the deaths, and the injustice.” • Dolores: “It was written on an English tour about a year-and-a-half ago, when there was a big eruption of trouble between Northern Ireland and London, and it was doing my head in. For a while, things were gnawing at me about the whole bombings thing, and I was reading articles about what was going on in Bosnia and the way women and, more painfully, kids were being treated. At that time there was the bomb in Warrington, and those boys were killed. I remember seeing one of the mothers on television, just devastated. I felt so sad for her, that she’d carried him for nine months, been through all the morning sickness, the whole thing, and some…prick, some airhead who thought he was making a point, did that.” • Fergal: “We had been doing about two years of touring and had learned not to become afraid of distortion. In the early days, the association was distortion - heavy metal. But by the time the second album came around we had done some stuff with Suede and The The and spent basically two years touring and gained a bit of confidence from that. It was heavy without being heavy metal. Just expressing the anger of that song, you need a ballsy sound. I remember when they were reviewing it on Sky News on the entertainment section at five o’clock, they had some guy on from a local band in London and he was like, ‘Oh yeah, record company ploy, the Peace Process and all that’, but we had planned to release it, they thought it was too aggressive, but we put our foot down and eventually turned them arround.” • Dolores is against the IRA saying that their acts are for the good of Ireland: “The IRA are not me. I’m not the IRA. The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not. When it says in the song,”It’s not me, it’s not my family”, that’s what I’m saying. It’s not Ireland, it’s some idiots living in the past, living for a dream. OK, I know that they have their problems up there, but there was no reason why that child should have been taken, why that woman should have gone through that.” • “What’s in your head, zombie?” she demands. “I really don’t give a shit-excuse the vulgarity- but don’t care whether it’s Protestant or Catholic, I don’t care whether it’s England or Ireland. At the end of the day I care about the fact that innocent people are being harmed. That’s what provoked me to write the song, it was nothing to do with writing a song about it because I’m Irish. You know, I never thought I’d write something like this in a million years. I used to think I’d get into trouble.” • The video was cut by a famous director, Samuel Bayer. Note that in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the video was made by an American clipmaker with British crew. :) There were real soldiers to take participation, Bayer told them he was making a documentary movie. :) The Cranberries themselves didn’t go to Belfast: the black-and-white clips were made in Dublin, the coloured ones - in Los-Angeles, USA. Dolores wanted the image of a golden statue to represent a living icon, entering this world to save the children. The idea to paint the children in gold was the director’s, he decided it would look cool. :) The video was being cut for 6 days.
It wasn’t about the London bombings - it was the Warrington bombings where a 3 year old died at the scene and a 12 year old died a few days later when his life support was turned off due to his injuries being too severe.
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1994 my parents fled a month later to the us dais they couldn’t take care of 3 kids one being a newborn with all violence and death around. I have family members that were Ira members I have family members that were killed for being born in the north they didn’t have anything to do with the fighting.
Napper Tandy, Wolfe Tone and many other prothestant republicans are sad that you fell in the brit desinformation about Irish struggle as a religius struggle.
Guys this reminds me of our home land the disputed territory thanks to the British divide and rule policy... Love from Kashmir We fight last man last breath ..
A struggle of almost 600 years the Brites considering Irish people less than anything. Unfair. My old man was German and I'm born in Mexico (1847), so I've been taught to love Erie.
It's funny that many people say over 600 years we Irish have been fighting, if you count the era of the ancient Celtic peoples fight with the English. That's about 3,000 years of pure Irish freedom fighting. May the souls of our brothers be honored in the name of freedom🇮🇪
isnt it kind of disrespectful to play this song on a pro IRA video? The song was about the bombing that killed 2 boys carried out by the IRA so its fucked up you use the song in this manner
@@joncullen5382I’ve always seen that line as from the mother’s perspective - like “it’s not me you’re thinking about, or care about, it’s just this delusion that people are still fighting you” etc etc. It was based on the Warrington bombings where two young lads were killed, which is why I always saw it that way, especially given the god-awful statement given by the IRA afterwards about “we warned you”
I think That you don’t understand the meaning of the song . ITS CONDEMNING THOSE TERRORIST GROUPS SUCH AS THE IRA NOT PRAISING THEM , ITS CONDEMNING ALL THOSE WHO MURDERED INNOCENT PEOPLE .
I understand where your coming from i love the song but its not the song its the video showing everyone how bad the troubles truly was like in the troubles i was in the most bombed town in ireland everytime we seen a bomb or hear a bomb it was normal to us we didn't even react the worst thing that i hated is that i lived right next to a forest that forest was flooded with British soldiers that didn't like me or anyone that lived near by but i really do understand what your meaning of this song is GOD BLESS 🙏🇮🇪
I do not have to appolatise of my Real IRA involment in 2009 in Belafast, becouse of shamefull note that i have resive from UK Government in 2010 that send me directly into a War Zone ! I do not want to explode in war, I don not willing to clame asylum in UK that will couse only paine, I preffer exploding in MI6 bulding withouth all this "pallada"
. I guess most of you dont know the origin of this song .Dolores wrote the song in an angry response to IRA car bombs which exploded in Warrington killing two innocent children . She ( god rest her soul ) would not want this song dedicated to the IRA !
Bin bombs, not car bombs, but yes - a 3 year old and a 12 year old, the latter of who made it to hospital but had his life support turned off as his injuries were so severe. 56 or so injured as well, including more children.
Then you learn that this song was written because the IRA bombed a town centre killing a 3 year old and a 12 year old. The bombs were intentionally placed in steel bins to create shrapnel to cause more damage. BOTH sides were awful.
patrickwantstodie - Overall it’s an anti-war song but it was inspired by the 1993 Warrington bombings where two children were killed by the IRA, in the lyrics the whole “it’s in you’re head (...) same story since 1916” is saying that the IRA (and in effect the UVF/UDA) believe they are still fighting in the independence war and is saying that it ended ages ago and need to stop the needless violence, calling them zombies as they are all indoctrinated into the same violent mindset.
good video, a sad story altogether and although I don't take sides in the conflict as I believe both sides have caused unnecessary suffering, I must say that the choice of music to the video is quite ironic.
Im probably being daft now but i believe both fighting forces were supposed to be seen as zombies (in your head that is), as both have appeared to be fighting for the same thing since the 1916 rising
On ne peut pas comparer ces problèmes de l'Irlande du Nord à ce qui se passe en France en 2019. Bordel de merde, lis un livre. Ceci n'est pas négociable et le sera toujours. Traité de paix ? Ne sous-estimez pas l'IRA
it's about the IRA attacking an innocent person ending up killing a child during the trouble era not the IRA themsleves. most irish people were opposed to the violence not the goal of indepence
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Funny how the brittish doesn't want yous now when we get freedom by violence or the brittish decides one day we don't want the North of Ireland anymore you'll have join the full ireland because you'll never be rich enough because the Catholics won't work with you and we will fight you
What the hell are you on about lad? The song was supposed to make people realise that BOTH fighting forces were killing innocent Irish Families through negligence... no matter the end result lives where lost that didnt need to be
