Irish Rebel Music

Irish Rebel Music

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The Irish Rebel Music is a type of music centered around the Irish Nationalism and the Irish Indipendence Movement.It developed in the ‘700s, during the Jacobite Wars, at this time Irishmen wrote songs about the War and sang them in battles, one of those songs, named: Oró sé do beatha abhaile” (Hi, welcome home), is still sang by irish nationalists, even if without the original references to the Jacobite Family. Nowadays the Rebel Songs are mainly from the '900s, but they refer also to previous events.

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The main topics of the Irish Rebel Songs are the Irish Rebellion against the English Government, so they refer to a period of about 500 years, and they propagandize ideas like Left Nationalism and Self-Determination and glorify the figure of the soldiers who dead for Ireland in battle or protested against British Government in other manners, mainly hunger strikes, like Bobby Sands, one of leaders of Irish Indipendence Movement in late '900s

The most famous group of Irish Rebel Music are the Wolfe Tones, a folk band whose songs talked about important irish revolutionaries and battles. They founded their group in Dublin during the ''Troubles'' and they did propaganda for the nationalist cause, for this their songs were banned from the Government, but they still managed to spread between Irish Nationalists and rebel groups like the Provisional IRA

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