This is an anti-partition song written in 1914. It serves as a testament that Irish nationalists were long aware of the dangers of partition and sought to rouse the men of Ireland against it.
The melody for this song appears to come of the line of "Viva La ... ", an anthem of 1798. Later in the 19th century Thomas Davis penned new lyrics to it: "When, on Ramillies' bloody field, The baffled French were forced to yield, The victor Saxon backward reeled Before the charge of Clare's dragoons. The flags we conquered in that fray, Look lone in Ypres' choir, they say, We'll win them company today, Or bravely die like Clare's dragoons." And so on. But the first written record of this air seems to be "Willie Was a Wanton Wag", collected by Daniel Wright in 1727.
The title given to it by the author was 'An Ulster War Song', however, the editor of Irish Freedom changed it and published the song under the title 'No Partition'.
"From the Battle of The Boyne, To the carnage of the Somme, We gave our enemies something to remember. So bejoves before I go, I want ye all to know, That Ulster is the Land of No Surrender!" 🇬🇧 Hail 1690! James and his Jacobites wanted to tyrannise us, and the Williamites taught him a lesson!
If I'm right, the man on the left is High O'Neill. Arguably the strongest chieftain of the Irish clans, and led the war effort with Hugh O'Donnell during the Nine Years War. The man on the right is his nephew, Owen Roe O'Neill. He was in the Spanish Army for a number of years in the early 1600's, as a result of the Flight of the Earls at the end of the Nine Years War. Following the 1641 rebellion he returned to Ireland to fight for the Catholic Confederacy, and won a large battle at Benburb. He was also the only Irish commander to defeat Cromwell, at the siege of Clonmel.
@@lawrencejohnston4215 Ok kiddo. Rein in those tiny plastic horses. He did defeat Cromwell. At the siege of Clonmell. That is not the same as saying that he fought against and defeated him in every battle. This was the only engagement between the two generals. Cromwell had suffered nearly 3000 casualties in his failed sorties against the town, and was more than happy to begin terms with Clonmell's mayor to hand it over. Owen Roe recognising that with the vast majority of the supplies used up to inflict the damage on the Commonwealth soldiers, and taking large numbers of casualties himself, left the town in the dead of night, as was the plan agreed with the mayor, and made it to Waterford with most of the men, although he and his soldiers were denied entry leading them to be broken up and to find safety, probably by moving back to Ulster. Leaving a town after a successful repulse in those situations is not cowardice, and you really need to understand that. He continued fighting the war until his death in 1649, and is believed to be buried at the Franciscan monastery of Cavan Town.
Hey Protestant!!! We Presbyterians **were** fine (not anymore some of us have fallen for unionist propaganda) the English hated us too they treated us like shit we were affected by the penal laws it’s the English church’s fault please just say unionist
@@averagehum4n those Anglo c*nts can’t let anyone live in peace we will not forget who help found the united Irish men all republican Presbyterians will be welcomed when our day will come
The song literally mentions Henry Joy McCracken, William Orr and Henry Munro all United Irishmen, don’t attempt to bastardise the legacy of these men to fit the UDA narrative of an “independent ulster” something that their own members fail to even comprehend.
I agree. Ulster must look to a future as a fully fledged independent nation state, of course we will stay within the union as long as that is tenable but they will try to force a united ireland down our throats sometime, we need to be ready.
Thats actually not true, the cruthin of ireland altho connected to the tribes of Britain by name just retranslated where actually different groups culturely and by language, it was the greek explorer pytheas to name the tribes of these islands as pretani which was retranslated into latin by the romans as brittanic of which the tribes of Britain/England of which they occupied at the time continued using
@@raymondhaskin9449 what historians use to refer to a peaple isnt always what they referred to themselves the cruthin never referred to themselves as such its what their neighbours centurys later called them, asfor the picts their name comes from latin the "picti", very often two neighbouring groups will be givin the same generalised lable in different translations by other societies, historically theres no actual significant connection between the celtic tribes of scotland and ireland around this time or prior atleast not enough to remotely say the original inhabitants of ulster where ancient britons especially when the word ulster comes from irish and the word for Britain comes from a greek explorer pytheas around 330AD, the first people to live in ulster and in ireland as a whole was in 8000bc
@@seanmcloughlin434 What do you mean there’s no connection? The two groups shared the same name. So that is a connection. They also shared the same geography, with Ulster being joined to Pictland by the narrow north channel. In other words, where the Cruthin lived was consistent with how the Irish at the time named and identified them.
@@raymondhaskin9449 they shared the same name translated differently that neither one of them used in reference to themselves and as for geography the province of ulster is not connected to pictland, pictland was on the top of Scotland on a different island, im not saying there wasnt cultural simularities between the celtic tribes between these islands ofcourse there was, what im saying is your original comment in response to the video is quite misleading especially when the first kingdom of ulster was an irish speaking gaelic kingdom
Ulster is Ours 🇮🇪
Yes it is yours
Ulster is Ulster
@@gojimovedchannel1478 stfu your opinion
@Fíonán Murphy don't trust Google
@Fíonán Murphy imagine using cope unironically in October 2022. Must be a redditor
The melody for this song appears to come of the line of "Viva La ... ", an anthem of 1798. Later in the 19th century Thomas Davis penned new lyrics to it:
"When, on Ramillies' bloody field,
The baffled French were forced to yield,
The victor Saxon backward reeled
Before the charge of Clare's dragoons.
The flags we conquered in that fray,
Look lone in Ypres' choir, they say,
We'll win them company today,
Or bravely die like Clare's dragoons."
And so on.
But the first written record of this air seems to be "Willie Was a Wanton Wag", collected by Daniel Wright in 1727.
Clare's dragoons!
Lamh Dearg abu!
God Bless Éireann.☘️🇮🇪🕊
The melody of the song reminds me a lot of the battle of garvagh.
There is some similarity in the notes.
Same tune as Clare’s Dragoon’s too
Same
The lakes of sligo
What's the song called?
The title given to it by the author was 'An Ulster War Song', however, the editor of Irish Freedom changed it and published the song under the title 'No Partition'.
@@brianohiggins9029 Many thanks
we are all irish, ulidiah too
Uladh
Any idea when this was written?
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"From the Battle of The Boyne,
To the carnage of the Somme,
We gave our enemies something to remember.
So bejoves before I go,
I want ye all to know,
That Ulster is the Land of No Surrender!"
🇬🇧
Hail 1690! James and his Jacobites wanted to tyrannise us, and the Williamites taught him a lesson!
Manx but I've not heard so well a tale said...
Brian O'Higgins stars again. 🌟🇦🇺♥️🇮🇪👍
Who are the people in the picture?
If I'm right, the man on the left is High O'Neill. Arguably the strongest chieftain of the Irish clans, and led the war effort with Hugh O'Donnell during the Nine Years War.
The man on the right is his nephew, Owen Roe O'Neill. He was in the Spanish Army for a number of years in the early 1600's, as a result of the Flight of the Earls at the end of the Nine Years War. Following the 1641 rebellion he returned to Ireland to fight for the Catholic Confederacy, and won a large battle at Benburb. He was also the only Irish commander to defeat Cromwell, at the siege of Clonmel.
@@David-lu4gq is this the great Irish hero who actually fled for his life when he herd that Cromwell was hunting him down!!
@@David-lu4gq and he definitely did not defeat Oliver Cromwell!! You really need to check out the history of what really happened!!
@@lawrencejohnston4215 Ok kiddo. Rein in those tiny plastic horses.
He did defeat Cromwell. At the siege of Clonmell. That is not the same as saying that he fought against and defeated him in every battle. This was the only engagement between the two generals. Cromwell had suffered nearly 3000 casualties in his failed sorties against the town, and was more than happy to begin terms with Clonmell's mayor to hand it over. Owen Roe recognising that with the vast majority of the supplies used up to inflict the damage on the Commonwealth soldiers, and taking large numbers of casualties himself, left the town in the dead of night, as was the plan agreed with the mayor, and made it to Waterford with most of the men, although he and his soldiers were denied entry leading them to be broken up and to find safety, probably by moving back to Ulster. Leaving a town after a successful repulse in those situations is not cowardice, and you really need to understand that.
He continued fighting the war until his death in 1649, and is believed to be buried at the Franciscan monastery of Cavan Town.
@@David-lu4gq sure there all heros!! 👏
Superb.......Cheers
Ulster is Irish and always will be 🇮🇪
Agreed. And Ireland will forever be in the Union.
@@ProfLars which union?
@@bobbills2953 The Union of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
@@ProfLars but they aren’t in that union anymore? Atleast most of the island isn’t?
@@bobbills2953 Politically at the moment? No they're not completely in the Union but culturally? Most definitely.
Song
O'Neill!
UNITED IRELAND
under the crown
Ireland is ours 🇮🇪
Lámh Dearg Abú
hehe
Jb
Hey you won protestant of the year heres your new car🚙🇬🇧💥💣BOOM PROD
Lol based TAL
Hey Protestant!!! We Presbyterians **were** fine (not anymore some of us have fallen for unionist propaganda) the English hated us too they treated us like shit we were affected by the penal laws it’s the English church’s fault please just say unionist
@@averagehum4n those Anglo c*nts can’t let anyone live in peace we will not forget who help found the united Irish men all republican Presbyterians will be welcomed when our day will come
@@averagehum4n i know you were are comrades in the 1798 rrbellion with wolfetone and catholics
@@averagehum4n yes you were but sadlyireland could not get its independence at that time
This is really bad
Hold i just relistned to the song its pro ra so its a sound song
Bad? Have you cleaned your ears?
Sinn Fein …!!!!
This song really gives me a sense of not ulster loyalism or irish nationalism, but Ulster Nationalism
The song literally mentions Henry Joy McCracken, William Orr and Henry Munro all United Irishmen, don’t attempt to bastardise the legacy of these men to fit the UDA narrative of an “independent ulster” something that their own members fail to even comprehend.
Oh shut it
I agree. Ulster must look to a future as a fully fledged independent nation state, of course we will stay within the union as long as that is tenable but they will try to force a united ireland down our throats sometime, we need to be ready.
@@asanulsterman1025 LARP ideology
‘The land that bore our own red Hugh,… shall never be of Saxon shire.’ Ulster will forever be Irish 🇮🇪
For Ulster and the UVF
No place in Ireland for the bastardly, damned loyalists. Tiocfaidh ár lá 🇮🇪
Saor Éireann agus Saor Alba
For The Glorious Fenian Warriors. ☘️🇮🇪🕊
The original inhabitants of Ulster were the Cruthin. (The ancient Britons).
Thats actually not true, the cruthin of ireland altho connected to the tribes of Britain by name just retranslated where actually different groups culturely and by language, it was the greek explorer pytheas to name the tribes of these islands as pretani which was retranslated into latin by the romans as brittanic of which the tribes of Britain/England of which they occupied at the time continued using
@@seanmcloughlin434
Cruthin was the gaelic name for the Picts.
@@raymondhaskin9449 what historians use to refer to a peaple isnt always what they referred to themselves the cruthin never referred to themselves as such its what their neighbours centurys later called them, asfor the picts their name comes from latin the "picti", very often two neighbouring groups will be givin the same generalised lable in different translations by other societies, historically theres no actual significant connection between the celtic tribes of scotland and ireland around this time or prior atleast not enough to remotely say the original inhabitants of ulster where ancient britons especially when the word ulster comes from irish and the word for Britain comes from a greek explorer pytheas around 330AD, the first people to live in ulster and in ireland as a whole was in 8000bc
@@seanmcloughlin434
What do you mean there’s no connection? The two groups shared the same name. So that is a connection.
They also shared the same geography, with Ulster being joined to Pictland by the narrow north channel.
In other words, where the Cruthin lived was consistent with how the Irish at the time named and identified them.
@@raymondhaskin9449 they shared the same name translated differently that neither one of them used in reference to themselves and as for geography the province of ulster is not connected to pictland, pictland was on the top of Scotland on a different island, im not saying there wasnt cultural simularities between the celtic tribes between these islands ofcourse there was, what im saying is your original comment in response to the video is quite misleading especially when the first kingdom of ulster was an irish speaking gaelic kingdom
1690
ooh shiver me timbers
1998
1641
@@debhin ?
@debhin Hibernica Alt