Irish Lad Explains 'Óró Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile'

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    This is the history of the famous Irish Rebel Song
    Óró Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile aka An Dord Féinne
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 815

  • @davyholden
    @davyholden  Рік тому +58

    Get My E-Book To Learn More! davyholdenhistory.com/

    • @juangiordano287
      @juangiordano287 11 місяців тому +1

      I like paper.books

    • @tatyanagilyova7428
      @tatyanagilyova7428 10 місяців тому +3

      Erin go bragh! Best wishes from Ukraine, go raibh maith agat!

    • @patwynne8373
      @patwynne8373 9 місяців тому

      Where can I buy one Davy? And your videos are brilliant, God save Ireland.

    • @karlbarry6004
      @karlbarry6004 9 місяців тому

      Davey where can I get 1 off your books

    • @user-lt7tj7kb5l
      @user-lt7tj7kb5l 8 місяців тому

      I'm studing gaeilge by this song❤

  • @Asgard2208
    @Asgard2208 4 місяці тому +9

    Northern Protestant here: love your stuff, Davy. We're all Irishmen in the end. Sad to say, too many of my religious compatriots up here don't realize that England would drop us in a heartbeat if they could. Until Washington orders the next imperial war, of course....

  • @jm7578
    @jm7578 10 місяців тому +39

    Hi from New York, I just like a lot of New Yorkers have more family in Ireland 🇮🇪 than in the USA . My family here recently had a reunion with our relatives in Ireland. This history is precious to us.🏆

    • @huskymom234
      @huskymom234 9 місяців тому +3

      Murphy from. Brooklyn here

    • @shuddupeyaface
      @shuddupeyaface 9 місяців тому

      In your dreams. You wouldn't know Ireland if it bit your ass.
      You're dreaming pal.
      Ireland is not your country. So but out brother !

    • @shuddupeyaface
      @shuddupeyaface 9 місяців тому

      ​@@huskymom234lol

  • @joyb5525
    @joyb5525 9 місяців тому +46

    My mum would be 96 had she lived, but this was her favourite song. Her father Herbert Gregory Phibbs was a Collins man. Mums husband whose own dad was PJ was a first cousin to Dan Breen and also was involved with Collins. What a mess of a country we have now. Politicians who show nothing but contempt for ordinary people.

    • @nunyabiznez6381
      @nunyabiznez6381 5 місяців тому +3

      My great grandfather fled Galway for Boston in 1902 after killing a British soldier who had kidnapped and raped his baby sister. she survived but my great grandfather left the monster's pieces in Galway, Clare and Tipperary. A few months later a 16 year old girl who lived a few doors down also fled Ireland lying about her age and the two married a few months later. My great grand aunt joined a convent near Boston in 1910 or thereabouts. My great grandfather taught me his native tongue from my first word until he died when I was not quite four years old but as there was no one else to speak it with I lost that language and no longer remember a word of it. My great grandfather would sing this song with a tear in his eye every single time anyone would mention my great grandmother in his presence. I do remember in the version he sang that it was all about my great grandmother extoling her many infinite virtues. I know it's a war song today but to him it was a love song. I completely forgot about this one memory I had until I just randomly found Davey Holden's videos and watched his short describing this and then I had flashbacks going back to my childhood 60 years ago and now I'm the one with a tear in my eye. We here in America have nothing left of what made us Irish save our DNA and our names and scant oral history of those our ancestors left behind to deal with the British.

    • @DeirdreCatherineDoyle
      @DeirdreCatherineDoyle 2 місяці тому

      They have a 'go' at me in Eire ... too much Limerick accent! Like I care.

  • @kkeelty64
    @kkeelty64 11 місяців тому +35

    Thinking about the desperate soldiers inside the GPO singing An Dord Feinne as it was surrounded and being shelled gives me chills.

  • @QvodInferivs
    @QvodInferivs 11 місяців тому +125

    In lock down a few years ago i taught myself to play the violin. At least to say irish/scottish fiddle music was my soucre of inspiration to learn. Oro se do bheatha bhaile was one of the few irish tuned i learned to play. Thank you for explaining the history of the song. Bless Ireland 🇮🇪 luv from Australia 🇦🇺

    • @plj2084
      @plj2084 11 місяців тому +4

      💚🇮🇪🤝🇦🇺👍

    • @southernlady5085
      @southernlady5085 9 місяців тому +3

      Have you tried the tin whistle? Great instrument, easy to learn.

  • @cindycchesney5716
    @cindycchesney5716 Рік тому +157

    Seo Linn is my favorite version of this song. Very strong and heart felt! God Bless Ireland Forever!

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +15

      Great version indeed!

    • @TheEvilDrR
      @TheEvilDrR 11 місяців тому +6

      Makes me want to go kill dragons. So powerful.

    • @kajteksroda9033
      @kajteksroda9033 11 місяців тому +3

      @@TheEvilDrR And vampires as well

    • @kajteksroda9033
      @kajteksroda9033 11 місяців тому +5

      Mine is by Sinead. Let spirit be with you. Long live Ireland and freedod loving people!

    • @thegreatselkie6009
      @thegreatselkie6009 9 місяців тому +3

      I LOVE their version of the song! 💚☘️🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶

  • @nunyabiznez6381
    @nunyabiznez6381 5 місяців тому +6

    My great grandfather., who was born on the shore of a lake in 1880 in Galway and who came to America in 1902, used to sing this song every time anyone mentioned his late wife. my great grandmother who passed away before I was born. It must have been love because the version he sang would last for hours. I doubt he ever heard the later version of this song. To him it was a love song. But I did not know it's name until watching your videos. I only remembered the tune and that he sang it in Irish, the last in his family to speak the tongue. He taught me when I was a toddler but after he left us I lost the words having no one to share them with.

  • @SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment
    @SpaceDogGlobalEntertainment Рік тому +161

    Very interesting history! And the Irish language has got to be one of the nicest sounding languages to have ever existed, it’s a real pleasure to the ears along with Scottish Gaelic. I love this song and it’s nice to know the history behind it, I didn’t know there was a version about Bonnie Prince Charlie! God bless Ireland, from Scotland! 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +18

      Such a great song. Love it! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪💚

    • @seanfaherty
      @seanfaherty 11 місяців тому +12

      Not when my Dad is swearing at you it isn’t

    • @IosuamacaMhadaidh
      @IosuamacaMhadaidh 10 місяців тому +9

      Slàinte!

    • @danielnln
      @danielnln 10 місяців тому +6

      🇺🇲 🤝 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @Rebellescum
      @Rebellescum 9 місяців тому +5

      As an irish person living in Wales, i can say Welsh is also a beautiful language.

  • @thesilversurfer7136
    @thesilversurfer7136 11 місяців тому +15

    Oi. This is amazing. Very interesting. My Irish Ancestors moved to America during the potato famine. They became farmers in southern America. Dirt poor, went into Bootlegging liquor, ending up in rubber manufacturing. Love this video.

  • @TheMuggis
    @TheMuggis Рік тому +11

    I used to play this song on my violin, with a cassette by the Dubliners in the background. I`m not sure what it would sound like now 32 years later, but some day I might try it again :)

  • @nula654
    @nula654 Рік тому +14

    Seo Linn created a great version of this song. Very beautiful.

  • @helenamcginty4920
    @helenamcginty4920 10 місяців тому +15

    I learnt about Pádraig Pearse doing A level English Literature. W B Yeats poem Easter 1916 was instrumental in putting names to the fighters. Our teacher was an Irish nun so she fleshed out the story.
    My paternal grandfather was from Achill Island (Also connected with Grace O'Malley) and his wife told my mother of visits to the house by men from Ireland who had quiet conversations in Gaelic with grandad. These were never discussed. 😊
    For all anyone knew they were discussing where jobs could be got.

  • @brianmccarthy5557
    @brianmccarthy5557 11 місяців тому +14

    The song was also intended promote overseas Irish in the Diaspora returning to fight the battle. Probably more from Great Britain than North America as travel from there still faced WWI restrictions. The first verse implies this.
    It's a great marching song.

  • @eldruidacosmico
    @eldruidacosmico 11 місяців тому +34

    Hello Davy! I just came across your channel, I'm a 42 y.o. man with a deep connection to Ireland (I was born and raised in Venezuela). You see, my mother's side is half irish and I was sent to boarding school there for a year. I visited most counties and a big chunk of my heart was lost in Co. Wicklow, never to be found again. I was catholic and then irreligious for almost 2 decades, then fell in love with eastern orthodoxy which brought me back to the irish saints like St. Kevin of Glendalough, St Brigid and many others. I now live in Costa Rica and long to set my foot on Ireland again one day. Thanks for your content! God Bless you!

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  11 місяців тому +3

      Thanks so much! Delighted you’re enjoying the channel 😁

    • @lilliankeane5731
      @lilliankeane5731 11 місяців тому +2

      Thanks for sharing your life journey so far. God bless. 🙏.

  • @ATLmodK
    @ATLmodK Рік тому +82

    I am obsessed by Irish History, especially the conflicts to attain Independence and the period of the Troubles. Thank you for giving me new information

    • @AntonGully
      @AntonGully 10 місяців тому

      Aren't you frustrated that independence never happened? Also, by "conflicts to attain independence" do you mean all the maiming and mutilating of other Irish citizens? The IRA killed ten times as many people as the NI police. And we're still British. Fecking incompetents. I heard we might become Irish if we spit on a frog resting a shadow. Truly! Or, I mean about as likely as it happening. America fucked it up for Irish Independence. They don't want it, they'd rather have it as a political chip.

    • @abcschoolofenglish6982
      @abcschoolofenglish6982 10 місяців тому +7

      The question remains: Is Ireland independent today or a country controlled by the WEF and multinational corporations.

    • @galadrielwoods2332
      @galadrielwoods2332 10 місяців тому

      @@abcschoolofenglish6982 What say you?

    • @calador1918
      @calador1918 10 місяців тому

      ​@@abcschoolofenglish6982no it doesn't 🤦🏻

    • @abcschoolofenglish6982
      @abcschoolofenglish6982 10 місяців тому +1

      @@calador1918 The Rose of Tralee festival is back after a two-year break, and there was warm approval yesterday among the 33 competitors for new rules reflecting modern times. Married women will now be able to enter, the maximum age of entrants has been raised to 29 and "transgender women" can also take part. Any more questions?

  • @CatatonicallyYours
    @CatatonicallyYours 22 дні тому +2

    A song of victory. When my son was born, we both almost died. Every day he was intubated, i would sing Oro se do Bheatha Bhaile to him. Let my wee fighter know he would make it home. He just turned one year old a couple weeks ago. ❤

  • @chelseaatherton9813
    @chelseaatherton9813 Рік тому +24

    I've always loved this song when I've heard it, but had no idea what it was about, but it's so moving even though I don't know the language. Thank you for teaching us!

  • @jackwild8019
    @jackwild8019 Рік тому +34

    You never mention " Mise Eire " hauntingly sung by Sibeal Cassidy 🇮🇪💛🇮🇪

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +14

      I will cover that my friend 😊

  • @mikeyates7931
    @mikeyates7931 Рік тому +36

    You're a good young Man ; keep our history alive
    ERIN GO BRAUGH ! ! !
    BONA NA CROIN ! ! ! !

    • @sveerdlov1917
      @sveerdlov1917 Місяць тому +1

      I agree 100% and became active in support for Irish Catholic civil rights in '68 at 12 yrs of age and want you Davy to know how proud old fighters like me are so lifted by your work!

  • @SuperNorajoe
    @SuperNorajoe Рік тому +26

    Thank you for teaching us the history of this song!

  • @johnsalamander-dz1qz
    @johnsalamander-dz1qz 10 місяців тому +6

    Hi from an Irish descendant in South Africa. Thanks for the info. I still support Irish rugby

  • @soulsurfer639
    @soulsurfer639 Рік тому +18

    Even before I learnt how to properly speak Irish, this song always gave me goosebumps. Thank you for explaining :)
    Éirinn go Brách!!! 🇮🇪💚

  • @josephmccarthy370
    @josephmccarthy370 Рік тому +46

    My family came to America due to the famine. Which makes me an Irish Immigrant to America! But my roots go back to the famine. Thank you so much for the meaning and history of this song. Slainte

    • @ellenpendergast6481
      @ellenpendergast6481 Рік тому +4

      Same here. But glad we keep history in our hearts.

    • @PercussusResurgo
      @PercussusResurgo 11 місяців тому +4

      Technically the descendants of Irish Immigrants. Me too.

    • @michealjones9863
      @michealjones9863 11 місяців тому +6

      Your a McCarthy your roots go back a lot longer than the famine. I live in the land of the McCarthy it’s in the county of cork . The wonderful thing about Irish names is they can bring you to the geographical location of where it all began for your family name. Cherish the Mc and the O in your Irish name it’s been handed down by the ancients .

    • @SparkyBobcat-el8hf
      @SparkyBobcat-el8hf 11 місяців тому

      Was ZERO famine...stop pushing the lie.
      It was a FORCED STARVATION GENOCIDE ( REAL HOLOCAUST ) planned & put in force by London & their army & puppet occupiers ~ murderers in Éire.

    • @bufordhighwater9872
      @bufordhighwater9872 11 місяців тому +1

      ​​​@@michealjones9863 No O' or Mac or Mc in that Welsh Jones though, is there? Lol. I'm just teasing. I'm a Jones on my ma's side.

  • @GamerBlock_
    @GamerBlock_ 11 місяців тому +29

    Finn here,
    Irish history is really interesting and yet so fascinating. It’s also really similar to our own. 🇮🇪🇫🇮

  • @teresacrowley4076
    @teresacrowley4076 Рік тому +295

    Up the Rebels!!!🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +40

      🇮🇪💚

    • @patwynne8373
      @patwynne8373 Рік тому +11

      And I totally agree with you.

    • @SkipRoche31
      @SkipRoche31 Рік тому +5

      ❤❤❤❤ I prefer An dord féinnie title better

    • @krusher181
      @krusher181 Рік тому +15

      Come out ye black and tans

    • @emmamcdonald3410
      @emmamcdonald3410 Рік тому

      @@SkipRoche31 ya know what no one cares! shut up!!!!

  • @Kysushanz
    @Kysushanz 10 місяців тому +37

    I'm a Belfast lad, living in the antipodes and I've always been deeply moved by this song - though never understanding the reason why nor the meaning of the verses. Unfortunately I don't speak Gaelic and it is one of my life's regrets. Thank you for explaining this song - next time I spontaneously burst out with the chorus, I will at least have some understanding of what I'm saying! God Bless.

    • @johnnyulster5637
      @johnnyulster5637 9 місяців тому +5

      I'm also from Belfast. Live in the States. Don't give up on the Irish. I've done Duolingo for a while and studied German to my satisfaction. Thinking of switching to Irish. All you need is "a cupla focal", mo chara.

    • @PatrickCaddell-et7uj
      @PatrickCaddell-et7uj 6 місяців тому

      ​@@johnnyulster5637😅 3:41 3:41

    • @totoropeters
      @totoropeters 2 місяці тому

      I also learn Gàidhlig in Duolingo, and is superb. Try to learn Gàidhlig na h-Èireann. Tìoraidh! :)

  • @johnmcdonnell6183
    @johnmcdonnell6183 26 днів тому +2

    Brilliant, my favourite Rebel song ever

  • @Irish_Hearth_1018
    @Irish_Hearth_1018 Рік тому +24

    One of my favourite song🇮🇪🍻

  • @LibraOwl
    @LibraOwl 10 місяців тому +7

    Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge of Irish history. You've done a great job at communicating much information in a concise yet thorough way.
    As one of Scots-Irish ancestry, I would like to point out one detail. Prince Charles Edward Stuart was known as The Bonnie Prince, or "Bonnie Prince Charlie". "Bonnie" in this case just means "good", and shows the level of devotion that many Scots had for their Prince.
    Again, my thanks for a well done presentation. I enjoyed it very much!

  • @karukun0212
    @karukun0212 Рік тому +11

    Wow, did that help. Davy thanks for cluing us in on the evolution and significance of this great song.

  • @kieranmustard9352
    @kieranmustard9352 Рік тому +9

    Love this song and foggy dew

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +1

      2 great songs 💚

    • @kieranmustard9352
      @kieranmustard9352 Рік тому

      @@davyholden the thing is I know the full words to this song so I speak Irish abit

  • @silkehortmeyer8092
    @silkehortmeyer8092 9 місяців тому +8

    Thank you for teaching the history of this Song. I love the voice from Ronny Drew and the Fiddler John Sheahan. Greats from germany.❤😊

  • @Jen999
    @Jen999 10 місяців тому +12

    First time watching this .. Will not be the last .. loved your presentation and explanation ., also like that you show the Gaelic and English spelling together..
    Your lovely channel is original and welcome.. and could listen to you talk all day .. your voice is mesmerizing and beautiful ..
    My family traces its Irish roots to a young lad who was a stow away on a ship bound for America during the Famine .. when discovered, he offered to sing for the captain., such a powerful and sweet tenor voice he had .. the captain was delighted and made the 12 year old his cabin boy .. his name was Michael Powers and my family all descended from him .. my youngest son bears his name .. and also sings ., a sweet bariitone he has ,,.
    So ,, Michael literally sang for his supper :)
    Do love your channel .. please continue.. you are amazing and quite informative .. and your beautiful voice will keep many viewers coming back just to listen .. and I shall be one of them❣
    Jen999💙
    Mi

  • @GaryArmstrongmacgh
    @GaryArmstrongmacgh 11 місяців тому +16

    As an English speaker. I cannot wrap my head around Q-Celtic (Irish and Scottish) pronunciations. P-Celtic (Welsh)? Forget it! Cool posts though! I enjoy the history and the your explanation. Excellent sir! Greetings from America! Bless Ireland who hath sent us so many great people and good music!

    • @test-201
      @test-201 10 місяців тому

      the celtic language in ireland is the same as the celtic from spain but the celtic languages of britain are completely different

  • @pfc4156
    @pfc4156 11 місяців тому +4

    Nice to see his family kept his great grandas clothes for him to wear

  • @dineru2004
    @dineru2004 Рік тому +19

    Thanks for sharing Irish History 💚

  • @rubydawn1
    @rubydawn1 11 місяців тому +7

    love all the information you give us I love when Sinead sings it I love all the Irish singers

  • @mjnaz65
    @mjnaz65 10 місяців тому +2

    Begging everyone's pardon but I saw this video on my scroll and because of a comment in here found the Seo Linn version. What a beautiful song and a beautiful language. Count this American with 18% Irish DNA as a new subscriber

  • @patwynne8373
    @patwynne8373 Рік тому +12

    Many thanks indeed
    Davy, I more than enjoyed it, I absolutely loved it. God bless you my friend , when I come over to Dublin I hope to meet you and some of your friends. Regards, Pat.

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +1

      Thank you Pat. Really glad you enjoyed it. Really looking forward to meeting you someday 😁

  • @frankbolger3969
    @frankbolger3969 9 місяців тому +4

    Love The Dubliners version of this great old song. Pearse, less well known these days, was always my favorite of the rebel leaders. Great job!

  • @joekavanagh8997
    @joekavanagh8997 11 місяців тому +7

    Thanks for the history lesson.
    I am now going to learn all the words.Always thought it had a rousing chorus and great air to it.
    Just subscribed so keep it coming.
    There is a cultural wealth there in the old songs and when the monetary wealth decreases or evaporates completely,(which could happen anytime), we can still survive spiritually with the help of our cultural inheritance.The last few hundred years of Irish history bears telling testimony to this fact.

    • @jsemplefelton5348
      @jsemplefelton5348 11 місяців тому +1

      It would have been nice to have heard it.

    • @joekavanagh8997
      @joekavanagh8997 11 місяців тому +2

      @@jsemplefelton5348 Yes you are right .But it's probably on UA-cam somewhere.

    • @jsemplefelton5348
      @jsemplefelton5348 11 місяців тому +1

      @@joekavanagh8997 - thanks.

    • @joekavanagh8997
      @joekavanagh8997 11 місяців тому +2

      @@jsemplefelton5348 I see that you took an interest in Newfoundland too ,which is good.I lived in Canada for 2 years and was taken for a Newfie many times .They are great people and I regret not going down there to meet them .But its not late yet !!
      Keep on doing what you've begun!!

  • @ShowCat1
    @ShowCat1 11 місяців тому +7

    Thank you so much for this explanation! I have wondered about this song for many years.

  • @joeynelson4176
    @joeynelson4176 9 місяців тому +4

    True history is so interesting. And though I don't have an ounce of Irish or Gaelic in me, music from Ireland, Scotland and Wales stirs my soul.

  • @karlbarry6004
    @karlbarry6004 11 місяців тому +5

    We have a history that goes through generations after generation thanks davey for your knowledge of our forefathers and the history off our country

  • @balor7
    @balor7 10 місяців тому +4

    Well done Young man!

  • @johnquick1
    @johnquick1 9 місяців тому +23

    go raibh maith agat a chara¡¡¡
    Tabharfaidh an t-amhrán seo suas fuil na hÉireann. saoirse na hÉireann. Taitníonn leagan Seo Linn go mór liom. My Irish is rusty, so pardon any mistakes.
    Great channel, Davy. God bless ye.
    Erinn go bragh
    🇮🇪 ⚒️ 🇮🇪
    Ó.É

  • @northwall9243
    @northwall9243 Рік тому +16

    Do the Irish call him "Prince Bonnie Charlie" specifically? Sounds mad to me but then i'm used to our Scots way "Bonnie Prince Charlie" which is more common when talking about him historically.

    • @Clodaghbob
      @Clodaghbob Рік тому +8

      No they don’t. The Irish call him Bonnie Prince Charlie. Only Davy Bonnie Holden says it the other way around. Apparently he became aware of the error of his ways after he made the vid. We shouldn’t laugh. It’s not easy to make a vid. On the other hand … schnrffff teehee harhar 🤣😂🤣😂

    • @paulanddee120
      @paulanddee120 9 місяців тому +1

      Nope.

  • @emiexx
    @emiexx 10 місяців тому +13

    I love listening to Sinead O'Connor's live version .

  • @karinwolf3645
    @karinwolf3645 9 місяців тому +6

    I have loved this song for decades!! Never knew what it was saying, but loved it anyway. Thanks for the explanation! Now I love it more! 💋💖💋💖🌵🌵👵🐺🖖🎶🎵😆😆

  • @sandidavis820
    @sandidavis820 Рік тому +25

    Hi, Davy, I love Irish Rebel Music, this 1 song I haven't heard before. I live in Texas USA, but my heart is in Ireland. I listen to the shorts you do and I will keep listening.
    I am at work now but I will check for more on my break and when I get home.
    Thank you
    Sandi

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +1

      Thank you Sandi 😁💚

    • @TheEvilDrR
      @TheEvilDrR 11 місяців тому +3

      A lot of Irish came to Texas. My family, the "O'Rileys" came to American in the early 1700's, and they made their way to Texas and beyond.

  • @Carmen_ban2922
    @Carmen_ban2922 10 місяців тому +4

    I Love this wonderful explaination of a long living song, changing with the times as many of the irish repertoire. Many thanks for your channel and words (& sweet voice). I'll take this video to my blog.

  • @babyji108
    @babyji108 11 місяців тому +24

    Thank you so great to hear the history of how it became such a rebel freedom call. Do you know the Sinead O'Connor version? Having just heard she passed today I am blasting this imagining her coming home.

  • @MCKevin289
    @MCKevin289 Рік тому +34

    I’ve interpreted the part where it says only the Gaels and not the French or Spanish as also a call to arms for the Irish diaspora too. That Grainne Mhaol is going to come home to Ireland with the exiles and that the Irish and only the Irish can liberate Ireland from the foreigners. He’s using the images of the wild geese by invoking a hero of Gaelic Ireland coming home with soldiers as a representative for us “exiles” coming to fight for Ireland

  • @jonc3118
    @jonc3118 Рік тому +43

    Davy, well done! Another great piece of Irish history.

  • @shanegooding4839
    @shanegooding4839 11 місяців тому +3

    Never knew about the older version. Thanks very much!

  • @stoykostanev373
    @stoykostanev373 9 місяців тому +3

    Thank you for sharing this with us! Keep on the good work! Cheers and greetings from Bulgaria!

  • @emilyflotilla931
    @emilyflotilla931 10 місяців тому +6

    Thanks! I'm 50% Irish and come from Murphy, Fitzpatrick, Kerrigan ,Brady Calan, and Burke stock that I'm able to trace. I would so like to know if any of my ancestors were of fighting stock. Irish music is an everyday thing for me, and I appreciate the background on this tune my mom would play. (My 36% Dutch and 14% Finnish and Swedish father too, after his first trip to Ireland. He became Irish by association) Ironically, I've been able to trace his history to the 1500s.

    • @calador1918
      @calador1918 10 місяців тому +2

      That's an impressive amount of surnames you've come up with, how far did you trace back?

    • @withcoffey
      @withcoffey 9 місяців тому +1

      Ireland is a state of mind. Ur dad is very welcome to join. 😊 🇮🇪

    • @emilyflotilla931
      @emilyflotilla931 9 місяців тому

      @@withcoffey Thanks! It definitely is a state of mind. ☘️🇮🇪

    • @Smokemeakipper41
      @Smokemeakipper41 9 місяців тому +2

      Fitspatrick and Burke are anglo Norman surnames so you are decended from invaders

    • @calador1918
      @calador1918 9 місяців тому +1

      @@Smokemeakipper41 Fitzpatrick is not Anglo norman, it's ancient Gaelic. Burke is though

  • @Catherine-ew1ww
    @Catherine-ew1ww Рік тому +44

    Such a pleasure to listen to you. A young Irish man with intelligence and so very articulate and well spoken. Very professional…no…mmmmms……buts…..or ands….Really Well done! And very informative, thank you.

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +4

      Thank you so much Catherine!!

    • @tsmeman63
      @tsmeman63 9 місяців тому

      @Catherine-ew1ww: I only just now read your comment… “a young Irish man with intelligence and so very articulate and well spoken…”
      You sound surprised! 😱
      Do you know that we have schools here too? Even universities! And hospitals! And a government! And a police force! And an airport! We even learned how to pay with euro’s! And we drive cars! And we have the best rugby team in the world!
      Forgive me my sarcasm, but I’m slightly offended.
      Nevertheless, warm greetings from Kildare, Ireland 🇮🇪 ☘️

    • @Catherine-ew1ww
      @Catherine-ew1ww 9 місяців тому

      @@tsmeman63 …you’re welcome to your opinion naturally…but you assume I’m not Irish/ not living in Ireland, but I am, and have lived here all my life. I stand over my comment. This young man is, most unfortunately, the exception, rather than rule, and for that I believe he deserved the compliments I paid him.

  • @King1234-i5g
    @King1234-i5g Рік тому +20

    Irish veins ☘️ Emerald Isle the land of saint and scholars

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +4

      💚

    • @DonBean-ej4ou
      @DonBean-ej4ou 10 місяців тому +3

      don't forget the drunks and losers. inclusion please😂

    • @ddempsey9642
      @ddempsey9642 9 місяців тому

      ​@@DonBean-ej4ouIrish drunks usually self medicating against depression. Lack of sunshine or genes. Who knows. Would account for being 'losers' too.

    • @tomwalsh2244
      @tomwalsh2244 8 місяців тому

      ⁠@@DonBean-ej4ouBet you have depressives and drunks where you come from too! Oh and nasty people like you who just make crass and crap comments are usually trying to hide an inferiority complex. Instead of being a hater maybe just get therapy and be nicer! You might just like it. As you are now I doubt you have many friends.

  • @shirleyashanti3031
    @shirleyashanti3031 10 місяців тому +3

    Beautiful explanation ❤

  • @walterjohnson6357
    @walterjohnson6357 11 місяців тому +4

    Great explanation and history too.

  • @thomasmorrissey8348
    @thomasmorrissey8348 11 місяців тому +11

    I was born in Dublin and lived there until 10 days after my 23rd birthday and came to Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 and now I live in Saskatoon ,Saskatchewan Canada 🇨🇦 and I’ve never forgotten my Irish roots , but Ireland is where I was born and raised but Canada is my new home 🇨🇦❤️🇮🇪💚 I’ve always loved the Irish songs 🎵🎶God keep Ireland Beautiful and free 👍🇮🇪💚🇨🇦❤️

    • @SparkyBobcat-el8hf
      @SparkyBobcat-el8hf 11 місяців тому +1

      Freezing your pink arse off in Saskatchewan lol..
      😊

    • @joekavanagh8997
      @joekavanagh8997 11 місяців тому +1

      I've lived in America for over 30 years and I second wholeheartedly your sentiments.
      I lived in Toronto for a year and a half .Spadina and Bloor to be exact.Used to go to Jimmy McVeighs ,The Duke of York and the Madison Pubs.
      Very safe city then ,I don't know about now.
      Visited Ottawa , Montreal and Vancouver.Always regretted not going to Newfoundland and was mistaken , because of my accent ,for a Newfie many times.
      You made the right move to Saskatchewan. I live in New Jersey and work in New York and NY is coming apart.This whole country is coming apart .
      I will be out of here very shortly.Ireland will be seeing me soon!!
      I've been around the block on both sides of the Atlantic and believe me ,you made all the right moves.
      Slainte ,🇮🇪🇨🇦

  • @ildranor
    @ildranor 11 місяців тому +3

    I m french and this sentence is inscribed on my table in my home.

    • @karlbarry6004
      @karlbarry6004 11 місяців тому +1

      What sentence is on your table at home

    • @ildranor
      @ildranor 11 місяців тому

      @@karlbarry6004 Oro Sé Do Bheatha Bhaile

    • @karlbarry6004
      @karlbarry6004 11 місяців тому +2

      Nice one mate thanks alot

    • @ildranor
      @ildranor 11 місяців тому +2

      @@karlbarry6004 with my wife we are french with irish hearth. We visit ireland each year and we want to live here.

  • @jackneals5585
    @jackneals5585 10 місяців тому +2

    Just found this channel... ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!

    • @23715
      @23715 19 днів тому

      Where oh where were the fighting Irish during the Second World War?

  • @neosandy
    @neosandy 10 місяців тому +2

    Oh thank you! I LOVE that song!!

  • @canalkis
    @canalkis 10 місяців тому +2

    Davy this is priceless. Thank you.

  • @estocadatx8172
    @estocadatx8172 Рік тому +11

    Davy, loving your channel - congratulations! A couple of wee criticisms, but nothing too serious - GAEL not GAOL etc - but overall I've learned a lot about rebel songs which I didn't get growing up in Belfast! As the latest exercise in my quest to learn Irish, I'm learning the Padraig Pearse lyrics of this song, with musical accompaniment from The Dubliners! Again, congrats on the channel.

    • @seanfaherty
      @seanfaherty 11 місяців тому +3

      Don’t bust his balls too much, I’ve never met an Irishman with the same accent as his neighbour.

  • @corpselight7989
    @corpselight7989 5 місяців тому +1

    Very cool to have a breakdown of a song Ive heard since I was like 2. Thanks for being a boss!

  • @slavickslav5045
    @slavickslav5045 Рік тому +5

    thanks for the perfect wording of my favorite irish song for a non irish person:)

  • @FA-tw7tp
    @FA-tw7tp Рік тому +8

    Great song and explanation. Well done Davy!

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +1

      Thank you! 💚

    • @FA-tw7tp
      @FA-tw7tp Рік тому +1

      @@davyholden If you are interested in the Irish catholics volunteers of the XV Bandera (Irish Brigade) during the Spanish Civil War, just let me know. Eight of them are buried in Cáceres, Spain. Cheers.

  • @user-hf2vt1nh2i
    @user-hf2vt1nh2i 11 місяців тому +3

    A cry to battle!! Fabulous song

  • @moominpic
    @moominpic 11 місяців тому +2

    very interesting, thank you. I winder if a "welcome home" song was also a nod to the diaspora who could return to fight and the "Fenian dead" which were being returned to Ireland for burial.

  • @paddybird1
    @paddybird1 11 місяців тому +2

    Wow! Did not know that! I wouldn't mind but we learned it in school. Thank you. Good luck with this channel, I think yer onto somethin'! 🍀😃

  • @An-Chliste
    @An-Chliste 8 місяців тому +2

    Dia Dhuit Davy! Mo dheartháir!!! For this, and all of your videos...GRMMA!!!!

  • @Rhubarb.and.Crustard
    @Rhubarb.and.Crustard Рік тому +3

    Always liked that recording playing in the background with Ronnie Drew singing, the first time I'd heard any recording of it. Never knew what it was about though, very interesting stuff

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +2

      One of the greatest Irish tunes

  • @boudiccam4417
    @boudiccam4417 9 місяців тому +1

    Gerry Adams came up to myself, my uncle and a group of Irish folk singers in a pub New York City, in 2004. He asked us to play “The Irish Song…” He meant this song, (Pearse’s version.) He scared my uncle and the other musicians, who were singing and playing exclusively Irish music. I knew which song Gerry meant, but I was younger then than you are now and I was invited to join my uncle so I didn’t start singing.
    Just the words, “play ‘The Irish Song’” coming out of Gerry Adams as he tapped my uncle on the shoulder and my uncle and most of the band looked frightened. Then the first song they played wasn’t the one he wanted to hear. So he said, “no play The Irish Sing.” Now, at this point the group has gone from being scared, to absolutely terrified. The Irish Champion Fiddle Player, then broke into a different tune that in the end was acceptable to Gerry. He was content with a Jacobite song, Mo Ghile Mear.
    That man is a bit intense, to put it mildly. He had a pub full of grown male Irish Folk Singers pissing themselves just by requesting “The Irish Song.” I was scared to do anything without a cue from the band, even whisper this song as a suggestion to my uncle.

  • @dragonfilms1959
    @dragonfilms1959 10 місяців тому +1

    I love the history within Irish music. Actually, one of my ancestors created the second (I think) biggest brotherhood organisation: The Fenian Brotherhood. My ancestors was John O’Mahoney, who fought in the American Civil War as a Colonel in the 69th New York Infantry Regiment, which is still active today, he was in many Fenian Raids in Canada, and served in the [Young Irelander] Rebellion Of 1848, and he was a partner with James Stephens. He was born in 1815 in
    Kilbeheny, on the border between County Limerick and County Cork, Ireland, which is also where my clan originated in: O’Mahoney (Also known as: Mahany, Mahoney, etc)

  • @Imnotyourfriendbuddy1
    @Imnotyourfriendbuddy1 10 місяців тому +4

    Love your videos helping me get in touch with my Irish lineage. My family came to America in the mid 1900s and we lost our culture. I’ve been learning the history of my family and the history of Ireland and I’ve been trying to learn gaeilge to get some of that identity back.

  • @galinabeltcheva1098
    @galinabeltcheva1098 9 місяців тому +5

    E xcellent boy my husband was proud irish man aforchently he pass way. The love of my life. Great musician. He seng this song.God bless you

  • @bartonseagrave9605
    @bartonseagrave9605 Рік тому +2

    I've read all that myself but to get it all together like that was good to listen to.

  • @andrewoshea5944
    @andrewoshea5944 11 місяців тому +1

    Love the song and your history lesson about it. Thank you.

  • @christinagavin4517
    @christinagavin4517 10 місяців тому +1

    That was lovely, thank you!

  • @diogenesofgermany8299
    @diogenesofgermany8299 9 місяців тому

    Really appreciate your content.

  • @amandadiamond7147
    @amandadiamond7147 11 місяців тому

    This is one of my favorite songs. Thanks for teaching me more about it!

  • @lillybell6024
    @lillybell6024 10 місяців тому +1

    My favorite song. Love several version. Thank you for sharing ❤

  • @richardmorgan4356
    @richardmorgan4356 Рік тому +102

    Love the channel Davy, more British people need to aware of the history of Ireland and the British occupation and oppression 👍🏼

    • @davyholden
      @davyholden  Рік тому +4

      Thank you Richard!

    • @DavidLee-yu7yz
      @DavidLee-yu7yz 11 місяців тому +3

      I agree Richard.

    • @nektekket852
      @nektekket852 11 місяців тому

      Absolutely mate, sadly most Brits are too dense to see that they're oppressed by the very same people...

    • @lm1275
      @lm1275 11 місяців тому +3

      It's always the British...

    • @dickdastardly5534
      @dickdastardly5534 11 місяців тому +1

      Will that include the IRA’s indiscriminate bombings and summary executions of ordinary people too?

  • @paulduffy4585
    @paulduffy4585 11 місяців тому +18

    I read somewhere that the British soldiers put the words of "What should we do with the Drunken Sailor" to the air of this song, after hearing it in the streets of Dublin in 1916. If this is true it's highly ironic that in our music class in primary school, in the colonized and downtrodden North of the 1980s, Drunken Sailor was one of the songs we were made to sing.

    • @RoleKeeper
      @RoleKeeper 10 місяців тому

      Thanks I was thinking why this song sounds so familiar?

    • @johnroche7541
      @johnroche7541 5 місяців тому

      People dont realise this but how can I put this delicately but the lyrics to "What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor" actually originally refers to a condition known as "Brewers Droop" which effects males who have consumed so much alcohol and it restricts them physically in terms of not going to "full mast" if we stick with a nautical theme. In short the alcohol restricts males from getting and maintaining an erection. Apologies if people think I have lowered the tone but in my defence I am giving accurate facts in relation to that well known Sea Shanty.

  • @jimblount9691
    @jimblount9691 4 місяці тому +1

    Well done Davey! Keep the stories coming. Every time I hear a new story it reminds me of the histories I was being taught at school in central Scotland in the early sixties. Later as an adult and after much reading and better understanding I realised that institutionally we were often misled! Inaccuracies would probably be being a bit polite.
    If only more accurate and honesty from the institutions that taught us, same schools for all children then perhaps there would be less division among working class people. Perhaps the establishments of my era in Scotland were very happy to keep us all devided.
    Education and truthful histories help us to properly understand our existence and also our future. ☘️

  • @ironnerd8336
    @ironnerd8336 9 місяців тому

    Great history lesson. Thank you!

  • @patrickfoley1018
    @patrickfoley1018 10 місяців тому

    Great production there and so informative...keep up the good work

  • @davyholden
    @davyholden  Рік тому +13

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    • @popad6373
      @popad6373 Рік тому

      Yes

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Рік тому

      ORO SE DO BHEITH ABHAILE IS ACTUALLY CORRRECT ... ORO means noone of import ...as in orotund pompous do bheith abahile ... no one is he who is abahile 9at home/inside and the spring coming ...

  • @user-xc8ne6cr4t
    @user-xc8ne6cr4t Місяць тому

    Your videos are OUTSTANDING!!!!

  • @kaboulscabal4816
    @kaboulscabal4816 11 місяців тому +1

    I learned a lot ... you absolutely deserved that like!

  • @stargoko7144
    @stargoko7144 11 місяців тому +3

    Can you please make a vid when the Turks helped the Irish during the potato famine, not many people talk or know about it. Thank you, love your channel :)

  • @rafangirl1
    @rafangirl1 8 місяців тому

    I adore this song. Thank you for the insights!

  • @xelabae
    @xelabae 10 місяців тому

    I love this song. Thank you for the explanation, it was fascinating to learn about it more.

  • @gunna68
    @gunna68 Рік тому +1

    Love your Videos ! Thanks

  • @dorothyadair1658
    @dorothyadair1658 11 місяців тому

    I was waiting to hear the song !

  • @kfossi1986
    @kfossi1986 Рік тому

    Love your videos!