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For All Their Wars are Merry: An Examination of Irish Rebel Songs

For All Their Wars are Merry: An Examination of Irish Rebel Songs

Konecsni, John
Finn, Declan

Paperback

Irish History

ISBN10: 153713129X
ISBN13: 9781537131290
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 18 2016
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
For all Their Wars Are Merry is an examination of the uses and implications of songs in Irish terrorist organizations such as the IRA and all of their various and sundry splinter factions. Basically, it will examine why the Irish have these songs as such a widespread phenomenon, and what the songs tell us about these Irish terrorists.

From songs like My Little Armalite to Come out Ye Black and Tans, one gets the feeling that the IRA doesn't quite take their British opponents as seriously as one would think, given the amount of bombs and firepower the IRA and all of its mutations has thrown at them in their fight to have Northern Ireland united with the Republic of Ireland, or at least independent of the United Kingdom.

Along the way, it will cover why the Irish terrorists have such songs, why they apologize for their atrocities, how Catholic they thing they are. It will trace these traditions going back back to the days of the Druidic Bards-Irish poets-of the early Celts some three thousand years ago, up to and including the poet Patrick Pearse in the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin.

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