I've been raised around these songs and so will my son. They're not an anthem of hate but an anthem of pride for those who risked and gave up their lives so we could walk free ✊

‘Paddy dear, did you hear, the news that’s going round? The shamrock is forbidden to grow on Irish ground.’

These songs were all composed during times of our oppression, so as to act as encouragement and defiance. They are part of our history and achievementsNow our own people are trying to oppress our rights of freedom of expression. The only bans should be to ban the "banners" themselves.. I'll happily sign a petition if there is one. Davy, you're doing a great thing - keep up the good work! My best to all

With all of the controversy in the media right now, here is my take on the whole thing. Long live rebel songs! 🇮🇪

«Let the people sing their stories and their songs And the music of their native land…»

As someone who isn't Irish I love these rebel songs because the idea of rebellion and freedom is something that connects us all. As someone who detests his own political system from all sides these songs are really my jam.

I’m proud to be an Irishman

It’s our history and never forget! Words don’t hurt people! People hurt people! No one can hurt you without your permission! Keep singing and be proud of your history!

Irish rebel songs tell stories of brave men and women who fought with heart and soul for the grand cause they believed in,, and way too many paid the ultimate price .. and died for it .. these songs commemorate their sacrifice .. they should be revered ,, not banned .. they are forever part of Irish history .. they help us to remember .. and never to forget .. these valiant souls .. ⚘☘ Jen999💙

Irish rebel songs are part of Irish History and culture and they will remain so.

The Wolfe Tones sang Unionist songs like The Sash and The Old Orange Flute. The media never mention that.

These songs are about our history, about our struggles, about us as Irish people.. I play them most days. Tal.

LOVE THE REBEL SONG*** PLEASE SING IT OUT LOUD***AND BE PROUD OF IT

Well said. Don't forget the heroes who died or the songs written about them. When I was little my Mam used to sing Kevin Barry to me a very sad but true song.

I've never heard an established rebel song when we're up to our necks in British ( protestant or any other) persons blood. I'm from the Glen's of Antrim and please protect our martyrs and Patriots deeds and proud name 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪

These songs are the songs of my family. Those that left their homes in times of war and famine. Those who fought for our freedom and the love of their country. These songs will never be silenced.

Longe live to Ireland and their rebel songs from a french of Nice

As an Englishman descended of modest northern stock, I whole hearted deplore such a notion.

I’m American. Have you heard the other verses of our National Anthem? 😱 No song should ever be banned. It’s the people’s history.

I'm from rural Yorkshire, basically a farm lad and my brother is in the Army. I don't have a drop of Irish blood in me. Banning these songs makes me want to down some beers and sing them at them top of my voice. You have a responsibility to record your culture and history through song. Good on ya 👍

why would they be banned? That's foolish. Sure maybe in the UK (not saying its justifiable but historically if a nation is trying to control a region like how UK in Ulster, then they oppress/propagandize any rebellion) but again why ban these songs? I've listened to quite a few of them and they're just patriotic which is a virtue to love your country.

In our house in Liverpool, we were brought up on irish rebel songs, Aunties, Uncles and visitors would have a knees up every weekend ( accompanied by a few Guinness). I was born in Liverpool with an Irish Father, also Irish Grandparents both sides, so i know my heritage and am proud of it as most Liverpool Irish are. I have mixed views of Irish rebels and Orange songs, purely from the point of view of their ability to stir "the hate"! There was plenty from both sides years ago, thankfully all but gone!! I have to say there are some beautiful and powerful songs from all Ireland's history, agree that these songs maintain a story and indicate Irelands long and troubled times.

Back in the late 1970s we bought Irish rebel Vinyl records outside the GPO, these records were made in England (Dolphin Records) and they threatened to arrest anyone in possession of such songs. I was in the Irish Army 1978/81 with my James Connelly badge and this was also illegal, so they said. i proudly wore it through the gates at Cahill Brugha Bks Rathmines. every day. !Up The Rebels!"

Its my History and events in ballads and songs and i am pround to sing and listen to Rebel songs. No-one can take our history away from us. Our whole Country like you said Davy is based on the men and women who fought for Irish freedom and i for one will never forget them. They sacrificed everything for us and for that i will be eternally grateful 🙏 🇮🇪💚✊

Songs of love and hope and freedom! 🇮🇪 ☘️ 💚

I'm a Brit and am just learning about Irish history (without a bias twist). As has happened over the past 30 years of my life. Why on earth wouldn't you sing such songs as loud as you can. Its YOUR HISTORY! Glad the Irish team sang it. Long may it be sung. Doesn't mean I'm anti British, pro Irish or whatever. It is history. Interpret it as you will / want. That's free speech.

I just played the fields of Athenry and Skibbereen for my students yesterday as a way to introduce immigration to the USA.

Remember going to the wolfetones years ago and the special branch taking our photos as we queued up to get into the concert happy days great memories 🇮🇪 32

The majority of my Spotify wrapped was Irish rebel songs!

I’m an American with Irish ancestry. I was recently introduced to Irish rebel songs and I absolutely love them! And they provoke me to go look up the history behind the songs and I’ve learned so very much about Irish history by doing that. Thank you for what you’re doing!

As the song says Davy raised on songs and stories, our house was a constant reminder of our family’s history,and many of my friends would join in with my family every Christmas, never a problem and I stilly play my father’s collection on vinyl, makes my heart sing and I will pass this down to my children,and it’s a way of remembering Irish history in song ,god bless

As an American with mainly English ancestry the Irish rebel songs are a big part of History and has made a big impact all over the world no part of History, no matter how horrible should never be tossed to the side. God save Ireland

One of the first songs I learned to play was boys of the old brigade

You have been very balanced in your views. We should always have national pride in our country, our songs and stories, that's what makes our culture.

When in national school (many years ago) we were taught “The Foggy Dew”. There were Catholics and Protestants in our class and no one was offended. These songs are part of our culture and we should not be embarrassed about singing them. Good luck to anyone if they think that they can ban these songs.

Life without rebel songs would be very, very dull. One thing I've noticed about rebel songs, is that they're generally really happy or sad...but not so much angry. Most of them are great fun to sing along with.

Has anyone looked at the lyrics of "Rule Britania" Lyrics When Britain first, at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sang this strain: "Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: "Britons never will be slaves." 2 The nations, not so blest as thee, Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall; While thou shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. "Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: "Britons never will be slaves." 3 Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful, from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies, Serves but to root thy native oak. "Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: "Britons never will be slaves." 4 Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame: All their attempts to bend thee down, Will but arouse thy generous flame; But work their woe, and thy renown. "Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: "Britons never will be slaves." 5 To thee belongs the rural reign; Thy cities shall with commerce shine: All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles thine. "Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: "Britons never will be slaves." 6 The Muses, still with freedom found, Shall to thy happy coast repair; Blest Isle! With matchless beauty crown'd, And manly hearts to guard the fair. "Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: "Britons never will be slaves." So while the Brits are entitled to be never slaves ..We Irish have the same ambitions..

Newstalk called the wole tones terrorists. Feel like I'm in clown world.

The English try to make us feel ashamed of these songs and our freedom fighters, every Irish person should be proud of the rebel songs.

I will sing Irish renal songs with pride in my heart them songs tell the story’s of irelands greatest sons and daughters of Ireland and must always be remembered no matter who disagrees 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

I was in a well known dublin establishment last week when my little armalite came on the sound system, shortly after come out ye black and tans came on 😂

A bit ironic that this fuss started after a game in Scotland. The song is about a Scottish football team. Its not an Irish Rebel song. The writer of the song will tell you that. As for the real rebel songs they are ballads about people and events in Irish history. Other countries have similar songs too. I don't see anyone wanting to ban Flower of Scotland or the Ballad of William Wallace. Those songs are pretty much about challenging the same foe as the Irish songs are. Why pick on the Irish ones only?

As an Irish-American, I cherish my heritage of brave freedom fighters.

My following post has absolutely nothing to do with pro or anti anything but dealing with both historical accurate facts and the repercussions and consequences of those historical facts today. British people especially will have to realise that the birth of the modern Irish nation went through very difficult labour pains against the British Empire which were revolution and war. For the country even to be called the "Republic of Ireland" was paid in blood just like the title of "The United States of America" was. The Irishmen and women who fought for Irish independence and freedom are looked upon with the same reverence that Americans have for George Washington or Afrikaans(Boers) have for Louis Botha and Jan Smuts. There is monuments,memorials dedicated to those who gave their lives for Irish freedom. There is streets,parks,roads,motorways,housing estates and football clubs named in honour of these men and women. At their core so called "Irish Rebel" songs celebrate the exploits of brave Irishmen and women and there is ballads that lament those who paid the ultimate sacrafice for freedom. Just like there is American folk songs celebrating the American War of Independence and Afrikaan folk songs celebratibg the Boer War. The National Anthem of the Republic of Ireland is more militant than many so called "Irish Rebel" songs. The little knowledge especially among Brirish people of historic events in relation to Ireland is testament to the major chasm of of ignorance in the British education system and the gaps in it's curriculum. The two major political parties in Ireland trace their lineage to men who fought for Irish freedom. Both the Irish Army and state Garda Police Force also trace their lineage to the Revolutionary period and it's aftermath. The father of the current President of the Republic of Ireland fought for Irish independence in Co.Clare during the turbulent period 1919-1921. In Ireland today in a more woke ,snowflake and politically correct environment it is in vogue to criticise "Irish Rebel" songs even by big personalities in the media. Every country that has been involved in wars of Independence,anti colinial struggles,conflicts for liberation and freedom have every right to celebrate their founding fathers. Simple as that.

American here, I find a lot of Irish rebel music to be really interesting the more I read into the history behind them. Even some of the arguably _more_ controversial ones dating to the Troubles have some interesting backstory behind how and why they came to be. As someone else stated, it's also sort of that spirit of rebellion and independence (which founded us as well) that drives my interest as well. ... that, and they all just happen to have really catchy tunes.

You can’t forget your history, you need to cherish and celebrate it

No Irish rebel song should b banned who ever bans these songs are anti Irish and a threat to a free society of Ireland

Ive liked these songs ever since I found an early 1960's album of them at a car boot sale back in the late 90's (Foggy Dew, My Old Fenian Gun, Rody McCorley, Barry's Column, Soldiers Song, etc) and it started me on a lifelong interest in the War of Independance. If we ban these Irish songs, which are really folk songs, should we ban ours like High Germany, and Over the Hills and Far Away? I think there are far too many fragile egos these days just looking for things to get offended over!

I'm a descendant of the Celtic Diaspora, with my strongest connections being to Ireland and Scotland. Learning rebel songs informs my practices as a Celtic Witch following the Old Ways. As a US-born US Citizen living in the US, these songs are my only connection to my history. They are the only foundation of my identity. Without the Irish rebel songs and Scottish Jacobite Rebellion tunes, someone who knows not one word of my ancestral languages is rootless and unmoored. To see them attacked like this.... Well, it is very personal and brings a very ancestral sort of bodily memory to mind. These songs getting all this judging reminds me of all the reasons why I don't speak languages that by every birthright I deserve to know at least a little of. Censorship is very personally threatening to me for good reason. It's why my only fluent language is English, a language I've always stuttered and struggled with-meanwhile I studied German in college and became somewhat fluent rapidly with zero speech production struggles. My heart and my mouth just have a habit of resisting being forced (by linguistic limitations) to speak English.

Years ago i had a tape (yeah a tape 😆 🤣 😂) it was called "songs from the irish revolution" wish i could find it again 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 ❤❤❤

I always love the Irish Rebel Songs for the fact that they make the Irish proud of their country and its culture, heritage, history, music and traditions, and for the fact that these are also the songs that ingrain meaning and spirit into the Irish national identity and character and have thus made the Irish into the brave, resilient people (To quote the Wolfe Tones’ “Hibernia”) of today. Happy St. Patrick’s Month to all of you! ☘️🇮🇪🍀💪💚🤍🧡💪🍀🇮🇪☘️

Wonderful point! Great video!

history should never be canceled doesn't matter what is was.

Im an American and I love rebel songs 🇺🇲❤🇮🇪

I think I've got a problem... I'm a very proud Brit but I'm addicted to Irish rebel songs.

I think people need to draw a distinction between the original IRA and the Provos. The original IRA would take on Crown Forces but not leave a car bomb with a shite warning in Belfast or Derry or Larne with no risk to the operatives. I'm a Republican and I'd vote for a united Ireland in a heartbeat. Maybe the Provos got their aim but they disappeared enough people in the north, but it was not the square go way of the original IRA. I'm old enough to remember mammies getting disappeared in the seventies or lads from Dublin or Derry or Belfast who joined the British Army with limited choices in life getting murdered and their bodies dumped or never recovered. Civil wars are ugly things. The Provos campaign from the seventies on was ugly and indiscriminate. I don't know what the answer is to Bloody Sunday or the Bogside Massacre but a car bomb in Derry or Belfast seems like shite answer to me. Blowing up wee girls in a dance hall or killing young lads who took the Queen's Shilling doesn't seem a good response to me but there aren't so many songs celebrating the Provos. There is a historic inevitability to a united Ireland but it's so sad so many people died or were mutilated on the way. I'm a lot older than you, but I remember the days of Provos and loyalists doing their mad shite and I'll not be singing songs for any of them.

I have learned so much of Irish history from these songs. I would hear a phrase I didn't have a reference for and I would research it. Doing this repeatedly gave me such a Rich understanding of the history.

It's a part of our history

Keep singing guy's 👏🇮🇪🇬🇧

And if this were to happen then Rebel songs will be sang all the more.Always the case

Kevin Barry is one of my favourites. Up the rebels!!

Why were the Irish freedom fighters called rebels, and French freedom fighters called the resistance?

MUSIC IS MUSIC! LET US SING!

They are rebel songs that represent a free and independent Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

Songs keep our history alive they could never ban those songs.

Would make more sense if they sang it after playing England but Scotland is kinda in the same boat as Ireland used to be. In any case people should be able to sing what ever they want...

I am an amateur musician and play guitar and tenor banjo and 5 string banjo and mandolin, my father who recently passed away was my biggest influence on Irish music, he taught me everything from the meaning of songs and who wrote and played them etc, He explained to me the difference between playing rebel songs and songs that cause division and separatness and playing rebel music that has hate as the emotional backdrop to playing music that has simply good musicianship and songs that have historical significance but without the condemnation of people who have not a bad bone in their body but maybe are just British (my father was a 100% patriotic nationalist)and since that day I have stopped being playing rebel music as much as I did before

In 1920 my great great grandfather was summarily executed for singing a rebel song. He was nearly 80 years old at the time. He was was simply overheard singing it to himself. One relative said it was an auxie and another said it was one of the notorious Black and Tans. We're not sure who. But they simply turned around and told him to stop singing and he stood his ground and sang another verse. That's when he was promptly shot dead. At that point others in that local immediately continued the song where he left off and more shots were fired and then they ran out of ammo and a few dozen who were in the village at the time began pelting them with rocks. I don't know who else died besides my great, great grandfather but I have the letter my great great grandmother wrote my great grandfather telling him of his father's passing and the circumstances. It is hard for me to read her handwriting and she spells some words differently and she uses a lot of Irish words as well as English ones and we don't have a lot of people here in the US who can do a proper job translating but I get the idea. I am not one to tell others how to live their lives in other countries and we have been too far disconnected, we descendants of the diaspora but in my humble opinion, banning such songs would change the nature of my great great grandfather's death. I would take it personally and I would consider it a crying shame and I would feel a sick pit in my stomach that would not ever heal.

Love Irish rebel songs 🇮🇪 keep on singing ladies and gents from a Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The songs are songs of freedom and victory. It’s all about culture.

Rebel songs are an important part of our Irish heritage. Sing them proud and sing them loud! And before someone mentions it, don't let my surname fool ya... I've Irish ancestors from all over the island, from Donegal down to Cork and Kerry, with stops in Armagh, Dublin, and Wicklow. I'm very much in tune (pun intended) with my Irish side and Irish culture.

Love Irish rebel songs ! Play them every day and I’m English ! Great songs about brave men and women who fought and died for their country!!!

So will the Orange Walks also be band ! You can't ban one and not the other.. Maybe the song "There'll Always Be An England" is offensive to the people off Wales, Scotland, Kenya, India and a number of other countries.

I love thies rebel songs. Me and my grandson listen to them all the time. All love to you Davy ❤

Highland paddy would’ve been very ironic for that locker room

I have downloaded some Irish and Scottish rebel song's on my phone after listening to them on KZfaq as they're very catchy and want to sing along with it, even though I'm from the UK my favourite Irish rebel song is go on home British soldiers as it's a very catchy song to sing along to. I also like listening to both Irish and Scottish Gaelic music as well.

Amen, sing and sing loudly, bless them all.

Sorry for barging in, dutch anthem is also a rebel song The guys who fought against spain sang it on the march

I’m half black and mom’s side traces back to Mayo county.. I learned a great deal of Irish history through rebel songs. I hope Irish folk play these with lots of pride, and please sing them at the football matches.

I'll keep singing them from across the pond

You are so articulate. 👏👏

Good on you son.all the songs are part of our hi and resistance over hundreds of years. They will never stop us being who we are.

Wouldn't it be grand if there was a game where the Irish sing their anthem and the Scots sang theirs (Flower of Scotland). I would be so proud! We still sing our "rebel" songs here in the US. Rebellion against colonial influence & brutality keep the dream alive...

Irish rebel song's in many cases are very beautiful! I knew a moderate unionist in Derry who liked many of them , like who couldn't love song's as lovely as the song grace , or Shanagolden no matter what background they are! 😀🤔☺️

Irish and Scots both have strong histories of rebel songs. The Brits just haven't got songs to match. Sing on, my friends, sing on.

As a Croat from Croatia I consider Irish Rebel songs part of my heritage!

I love this channel I followed you on tiktok but I got banned from my brother 😂😂

Tal loud and proud 🇮🇪 ✊🌟

With the English government preparing to tear up the Good Friday Agreement, I'd say that these songs are just as relevant nowadays as they were during the Troubles

Born and bred in Glasgow to Irish immigrants, I learned rebel songs from a very early age. TAL.

Great point. I love rebel music but also love the song soilder. Why? It's catchy

Long may the rebel songs be played.So proud of them,from irish Boland.

Irish rebel music honors Irish Independence and the deplorable way England split Ulster. Ulster as the North Orange Order likes to call itself consists of 9 counties not 6. The song Let the People Sing says it all

the time for singing rebel songs IS NOW!!xxxxTALxx

As an English socialist Corbynite who vehemently opposes capitalism and imperialism and as a small r Republican (though it’s not up to me what happens in ‘Northern Ireland/the North of Ireland’ of course, it would require a border poll) I love protest songs, very much including Irish Republican ones - along with pro-union songs and some Jamaican songs like ‘The System’ (by Vybz Kartel). Freedom of speech should be absolute, pretty much, and these songs should NOT be banned!

Absolutely right!

A Song i have on an old Waltons label 45rpm by Patricia Blake ,My Only Son was Shot in Dublin. I will try and upload it .

What there is violonce in rap music and death because of gang rap and yet it gets created Irish rebel songs is there history there great songs and music

I completely agree. Remember your history through song ...or we will be doomed to repeat it.....

Let the people sing!