There’s also a few scenes from the Michael Collins movie, namely the Croke Park Bloody Sunday and scene with the tans being toasted with the petrol bomb.
Heard this first in a pub in Ireland when visiting it in the 70's. Everyone was singing there and that amazed me. Once I learned the meaning of the song I could totally get it.
I was in Ireland in the 1970's when the Wolf Tones were supposed to perform at a local pub. They didn't show. About an hour later, a local band performed - a family - I think they woke the kids up. I remember a small girl with a bandage on her knee. I'm sure the group had a good reason for not showing, but kudos to the small, wee girl who was woken up to take their place. And thanks also to the audience who greeted the substitutes with grace and politeness. So - proudly boast your sentiments, but take a minute out to thank the wee ones who filled in for you.
I am not Irish, but this song just goes straight to my stomach and I cry so hard. It's so beautiful and yet it makes me wanna fight all oppression in the world. Long Live the Irish!!
I'm not even Irish but when I hear this song, I want to roll up my sleeves, buy a one way ticket to Ireland tell my wife to bury me with the Irish flag. Good shit man
@Myth Tree My intuitive sense of melody (when I "sing" spontaneous rhyming verse to myself with no music) is pure folk. I don't bother trying to explain it; I didn't grow up listening to it. Must be proof that I Have Irish forebears.
Sometimes I feel like I'm going to get put on a list when I go deep on a Wolfe Tones binge. Of the commonly available Irish tunes, they're definitely the most subversive and the most recent in the events they sing about.
The film stars mostly Irish actors and was made by British director Ken Loach. It is an international co-production between companies in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, and Switzerland. The title derives from the song of the same name, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", by 19th-century author Robert Dwyer Joyce. The song made the phrase "the wind that shakes the barley".
This song made me cry for the first time in awhile my grandfather was in the ira im an American but was raised in a part of ny that pretty much everyone besides me and my father were 100% irsh makes me sad how ive left the culture and dont think of myself as Irish but rather American
@@daithiodunn2048 great grandfather was a part during the easter rising then grandfather was involved in the 60s not to sure though also I'm in the upstate of New York
I've never been to Ireland. I'm not an Irishman. Nonetheless, when I hear this music, it transports me to 1916, to the 1920s, the 60s even. I AM there clutching my rifle alongside my comrades and waiting for the ambush to begin when that lorry full of the Queens worst comes around the corner. Thank You from my eternal soul for being who you were and for making this music to chronicle it all. You have inspired an old American Rebel to keep on the fight with your tales of better men and women who believed in something real & true and gave everything to gain it. I know it's kind of warm and squishy, but I tear up when I listen to some of these. Easy to believe in past lives when I listen to Rebel tunes.
@@KratomFlavoredAdidas What bloody uprising of 1799 are you on about (Jez where do you guys get this rubbish from) so please tell me all about it as I thought (silly me) it was the 1798 Rebellion of the Great United Irishman (24 May 1798 to 23rd Sept 1798). As for the 1799 uprising in Ireland, I must have been away from school that day when we were taught that one! Off you go then, over to you, to tell me all about the 1799 uprising (although I think it maybe called a rebellion not an uprising). Still, tell me more!
To say that there was a famine in wrong. The British were shipping food out of Ireland. Those people were starved to death to enrich the wealthy of the empire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Food_exports_during_Famine This kind of thing happened all over the British Empire until it dissolved. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bengal_famine_of_1770 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
@David McConville and dont forget Irish americans (many who served in the us military) came back home to fight in the risings. The Irish unlike any other race keep out heritage and our love for the land of our familes i was raised by irish immagrant grand parents and they tought me to keep my heart Irish and never forget thats why i was sent every year to stay with family in Belfast
That was the most waffled comment I have ever read you said we need Northern Ireland back when we already do sadly and the you put ivory coast flags and the put English flags like what!
@@heretible As a Welshman, it pisses me off, that a Welsh born British PM, was behind the division of Ireland, over a hundred years ago. I just hope, in my lifetime, that wrong is finally put to right. A united Ireland, it's time has come.
My family has history my fathers side is a family of Irish immigrants to the us and Holocaust refugees I don’t know much about the Irish side my grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him and he never spoke much of ireland
Long live our celtic brothers! Use Scots should always work togther to to aid our celtic brothers the Irish are reasonable for Scotlands existence without it our fatherland would be a fully germanic craphole once the english expand into it. LONG LIVE IRISH - SCOTTISH COPERTION LONG LIVE AN UNITED CELTIC SOCALIST REPUBLIC!
Celtic brothers, are you having a laugh! Clearly you don't understand Scotlands bloody involvement in Ireland, 1916 for a start, wasn't that one of your Scottish clansman with a PM who was voted into power by whom?? Yep, the Scottish people. And what about 1922, wasn't that another of your Celtic brothers? Hypocrites!
@@TheScottishBOLSHEVIK well I care for one, the scots were awful in my country as bad as the english if not worse, you really need to learn your irish history lad and come back when you know what you're talking about
All i learn in school about this conflict was= The IRA is bad. Thx to this song i start reading and get better few. And learned the my history teacher really scks.
It’s July 2nd, 2024, 23:00, and this song will blare through my speakers two days + 1 hour from this post, whist I, my immediate family and friends fire our (legal) weapons at effigies of redcoats, filled with Tannerite and red-food-colored dye, as a strict reminder. Come home, fellow Éireannach. Fight the good fight.
Of course much of it's mythical, and much isn't. The behaviour of the Black and Tans was often terrible. WW1 veterans with PTSD. But it was executions after 1916 that really increased support, which was far from widespread before then. Americans who bang on about Ireland might want to contemplate the history of the southern and western United States.
@@Winaska You took the southern and western US from the Mexicans! And the union of Great Britain and Ireland, and the later creation of the six counties, was a damn sight more defensible than Manifest Destiny!
@@craigross341 um the south was colonized by England, and England had bought Florida and the Gulf coast east of new Orleans from Spain. Then we bought Louisiana from France. Mexico never had "The South". now the South West (Texas over to California) yes, that we conquered from the Mexicans. terribly unjust war; and im glad that the Irish volunteers in the american army switched sides and refused to fight against their fellow Catholics.
India, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Egypt, Burma, New Zealand. So many others. All got their independence from the UK. Yet here we are, with a part of Ireland still being occupied by them. I don't care whether Ireland wants the North back or whether the North wants back. Obviously most in North Ireland would want to remain with Britain. It was intended that way by those in Westminster when the 1921 partition occurred by making sure there was an Unionist majority there. This would be like accepting the decision of a Jury that was picked entirely by the government. Of course they see themselves as British. Their great-great-great-grandparents wanted to be. 100 years is plenty of time to ingrain an idea in the population. Northern Ireland is morally and justly part of Ireland and should be recognized as such.
They didn't get their independence form the UK they got it from Britain and many of those countries still have the British Crown as their head of state and still swear an oath of Allegiance to the Crown...So, what Independence are you talking about? hummmm And the six countires recognised by whom as part of Ireland? It is part of the the Island of Ireland already so who are you trying to pursued about what?
i always thought they said "16 pound a gun". 18 pounders is what they used in 1916. maybe they used the 18-pounders everywhere else. strange error all the same
Much love from Finland! Ireland will be free! There will be 32 county Socialist Republic of Ireland. You know how to fight. You will beat the algo-imperialist death squads! And I hope you will teach us Finnish anti-imperialists how to fight and how to organize!
Finland was a Nazi state, gotta question the Irish moral stance when the only countries supporting videos like these are Finland, Argentina, Iraq, Syria... I’ll stick to having non communist or fascist allies
@@captainhindsight8779 Yes, Finnish government was a traitorous Quisling-like pro-nazi gang during the WW2. That's why I'm happy the Finnish government lost the war and was kicked out. When the Finnish government lost, the Finnish people won.
@@thetrueakamaru7 I am aware that the german government send a ship to ireland, to deliver weapons and ammunitions. But the ship never arrived. But if you have information on german submarines making deliveries, I´d be glad to know about it.
15.000 Mosin Nagant captures from Russian Front. By far the worst bolt action rifle of the war but could make a hell of a damage to them Anglos. And of course, 15 Maxim machineguns, these would have been fun
It would be funny if this Irish rebel song "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans" was sung by an Irish singer on the talent show "Britain's Got Talent". It would be even funnier if this video was shown in the background on the big screen. Although the songs "Go On Home British Soldiers" or "Rifles of the IRA" would be better because the songs are more unambiguous. By the way, an explain for those who don't know the "Black and Tans" which were mentioned in the song! The Black and Tans (Irish na Dúchrónaigh), officially the Royal Irish Constabulary Special Reserve, was one of two paramilitary groups in Ireland from 1920 to 1921. In January 1920 the British government launched a recruiting campaign for "men ready to do a tough and dangerous job" to support the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) in increasingly anti-British Ireland. This government campaign was the idea of Winston Churchill, who was British Secretary of War at the time. As it turned out, there was no shortage of English recruits. Many of the English applicants were WWI veterans. In November 1921, the Black and Tans numbered about 9,500 men. This large number of men quickly led to a shortage of uniforms, so that new recruits were equipped with khaki army uniforms (usually just the pants) and dark green or blue British police uniforms. This mixture of colors led to the nickname "Black and Tans" (literally translated: black and brown), a reference to a well-known pack of hunting dogs from County Limerick. The name persisted even after the group received new uniforms. Officially, the Black and Tans - like the second group, the Auxiliary Division which was just as cruel and brutal - belonged to the Royal Irish Constabulary, but in fact they acted almost independently. Both groups served to suppress and combat Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and practiced pro-British state terrorism. In the summer of 1920 the Black and Tans devastated entire towns and villages in Ireland including: Tuam in County Galway, Trim, Balbriggan, Knockcroghery, Thurles, Templemore, Tralee. The center of Cork was burned down. Because of the crimes and atrocities they committed, many Irish still get emotional when Black and Tans are mentioned today. "Black and Tan" or "Tan" is still a derogatory term for the occupiers of Ireland today. (So for... the British) The Irish War of Independence is therefore often called the "Tan War".
The first thing that appears in the video is probably the burning and destroyed building, the General Post Office. The building has gone down in history as the headquarters of the 1916 Éirí Amach na Cásca (Easter Rising). On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, members of the Irish Volunteers Force and Irish Citizen Army stormed and occupied the Post Office and other official buildings in the city. They proclaim the Republic of Ireland before succumbing to British repression. The Irish Éirí Amach na Cásca of 1916 was an attempt by militant Irish republicans to enforce Ireland's independence from Britain by force. Although it failed militarily, it is considered a turning point in Ireland's history, which ultimately led to Irish independence in 1922.
To explain the "Black and Tans" mentioned in the song! The Black and Tans (Irish na Dúchrónaigh), officially the Royal Irish Constabulary Special Reserve, was one of two paramilitary groups in Ireland from 1920 to 1921. Officially, the Black and Tans - like the second group, the Auxiliary Division - belonged to the Royal Irish Constabulary, but in fact they acted almost independently. Both groups served to suppress and combat Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and practiced pro-British state terrorism. In January 1920 the British government launched a recruiting campaign for "men ready to do a tough and dangerous job" to support the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) in increasingly anti-British Ireland. This government campaign was the idea of Winston Churchill, who was British Secretary of War at the time. As it turned out, there was no shortage of recruits. Many of the applicants were WWI veterans. In November 1921, the Black and Tans numbered about 9,500 men. This large number of men quickly led to a shortage of uniforms, so that new recruits were equipped with khaki army uniforms (usually just the pants) and dark green or blue British police uniforms. This mixture of colors led to the nickname "Black and Tans" (literally translated: black and brown), a reference to a well-known pack of hunting dogs from County Limerick. The name persisted even after the group received new uniforms.
@@Eddie-lm3jf The Irishman would have to pretend to be British! Or the Irish would say they want to sing a different song. Besides, that was supposed to be mockery!
@@antonimohedanolopez169 In real life, The British Empire came in gun ready to shoot at the audience (There was no armored car) and the event was called "Bloody Sunday" there's other Bloody Sundays in Ireland like the civil Rights March in Northern Ireland during *_The Troubles_*
It genuinely upsets me how much these songs get co-opted by far-right types. You can’t sing songs of liberation from oppressors while you simultaneously hold ideologies that oppress swathes of people. That said, I’m also American so it’s not like I’m surrounded by the most politically sound types of people most of the time. The same folks who idolize the year 1776 here were just defending the royal family about a week and a half ago just to give perspective 🙄
@Lando Lastname: Ah, ignore my first reply then. I mean, yes, we’re allies. That doesn’t really touch on what I’m trying to highlight here though. If, in the case of US right-wingers, you’re going to reference how “anti-tyranny” you think you are (and especially with callbacks to 1776), but then turn around and defend the royal family, a lingering reminder of British imperialism, you’re kinda showing how big a hypocrite you are. “Anti-tyranny”, but will simp for the Royals in the same breath they’re yelling about the Revolutionary War See what I’m saying?
@@KlutchRedefined you know, monarchy does not necessarily equal tyranny. and republicanism and democracy don't necessarily equal freedom all the time. Remember that in 1745 thousands of Scots fought for liberty from the tyranny of King George II but it was because of loyalty to the ousted House of Stuart. And during the French Revolution there were plenty of rank and file french who detested the revolutionaries and remained loyal to the monarchy and even fought for its restoration (ex, the Vendee region rebellion), because, well, the revolutionaries weren't exactly spreading liberty... And this song is about Irish nationalism, so it is by definition a song about holding on to one's homeland and not letting it be taken over by outsiders. so it is not surprising that it would appeal to the alt-right. or just regular old patriotic people.
@@Winaska it’s not just any old “outsiders” as your comment would imply. It’s a literal armed, colonizing force working at the behest of their government and that distinction absolutely matters. This song, like other Irish rebel songs, references nationalist ideas in the face of imperial British rule, not ridding a country of your average immigrant as the far-right generally wields its nationalism. It’s a song specifically aimed at a tyrannical, imperialist army subjugating a whole country, not some “great replacement” nonsense. The context matters if you’re gonna try to defend the use of these songs by people whose world views and politics are being directly opposed by the lyrics. Without the context, both the song and the philosophy behind it mean nothing
@@KlutchRedefined you may want to read up on how Texas became a US state if you honestly think "replacement through immigration" has never happened or can't happen. And yes your distinctions make sense.
@@DapaChrons yeah, just pointing out how they chose the worst possible clip for those words. Cause them Zulus don't look frightened to the marrow, guvn'r
I mean the entire song is kind of sarcastic in tone "oh yeah, you were real badasses there, TOTALLY scared the zulu" is supposed to be the intended message there; these are the same people who won't come out to fight the singer like a man, either.
@@drewgehringer7813 I wouldn't call it a fight with the zulus it was slaughter and its said if it had went on a little longer the Zulas would have won but spears against heavy guns isn't a fight but the Words frightened to the marrow shows what the Zulus were up against but attacked nonetheless plus we were not there..
Bastards fired shots at my grandmother and her sister going to school in Clare and proceeded up to their mother's house looking for the men and ransacked the place and made her cook all her food at gunpoint and ate everything. My grandfather was in the Tipp 2nd brigade and watch Templemore sacked in 1920. These were my fathers parents who's a Congo Veteran and is still alive at 80. This was fairly raw for him to hear the government was going to commemorate the RIC. God help next blueshirt that comes to my door.
Same here i have family members still alive that lost brothers and cousins, Luceys of west Cork my uncle Christy shot in the back walking across the road, my great grandfather dr con was in the ambush shown in this clip gives me great pride to know they took no prisoners
loved your post, but not sure about the Congo Vet bit.... You hate the B&T which is great, but then, in the same paragraph, you say that your grandpappy was involved in his own colonial activities? what a fucked up world.
@@systlin2596 so he was a slave then? no free will - like the NAZI concentration camp guards right? you know, i'm pretty sure there was something written about that not being in an accuse.... anyway.
Why? lol, the song has nothing to do with the WOI or the Civil war as for using Michael Collins in the video are you completely devoid of any knowledge of Irish History?
Phantom Aviator because if they gave up Ireland it would give a green light to all the other separatists and socialists, the British government likes its power so they won’t do it
@@nestormakhno9266 i know but, *you're not a superpower anymore England, if it wasnt for America, France, Germany, Canada, and your other allies you'd be nonexistent by now*
Us English don't give a shit, you guys can be united for all we care It's the nutjobs waving the Union Jacks in Ulster stopping it, we'd be glad to be shot off them
