Anyone listen to Wolfe Tones??? IF so what is your favorite song(s)???

Yes I see them play often. Joe McDonnell is my favourite, it was written by Brian Warfield 2 hours after Joe died on hunger strike in 1981.

Yeah, they're great. Though I prefer some of the newer bands like Eire Og and Shebeen, etc.

Boys of the old Brigade and Celtic Symphonie

The Rifles of the IRA

Or� S� Do Bheatha Bhaile

Wolfe Tones sang Or� S� Do Bheatha Bhaile?
never knew it, never got it

but this song is cool, have the metal version by Cruachan

Yes I like Or� S� Do Bheatha Bhaile.

However as I'm not a gaelic speaker perhaps someone can tell me what it's about.
My mother told me she used to sing it in national school back in the 40's and 50's but she doesn't know.

Thanks

Well there's two versions, a Jacobite version and a version written by Padraig Pearse. I'm sure the one your mother sang was the Padraig Pearse version. I'm not familiar with the Jacobite version.

Anyway the Padraig Pearse version is a rallying call to all Irishmen fighting with the British Army in Europe to return home and fight for the freedom of Ireland.

Celtic Symphonie, Justice, The Irish Brigade, Blackthorn, Fightin' men from Crossmaglen, Stick'em Up and... Belfast

What a man this Padraig Pearse ! (as I think about it some Irish rebels should be included in the 'hot men' list)


Well back to the point, is there anyone on this forum who doesn't listen to the Wolfe Tones ?

Anyway, personally, I'm fond of Erin go bragh, Rifles of the IRA, Joe Mc Donnell, Come out ye black and tans, and well many others actually...

Slan agat

Having a fight with my brother. Which music is gonnna be the loudest ?
Wolfe Tones VS MC Jean Gab1 (some bad french rap singer)

Slan agat

Hey, leave your brother alone! Jesus, sisters can be such bitches! Let him play his music!!!

He plays it too loud
+ that it's really bad stuff

Charlotte, you just ain't gettin into the groove...

Put on some white runners, baggy tracksuit, baseball cap (curved peak), put it up even louder and "bounce"...

Can you freestyle?!

I still prefer me Wolfe Tones
And can you imagine me with those clothes? Please, I'm a Parisian woman !

Slan

I believe Grace was written by the 'Tones.
That song brings a tear to me eye for sure. Especially as I was in Kilmainham Gaol only 2 weeks ago. What a place !

Imprisoned for the cause eh Chucky? We'll get them bastards who locked you away, they'll have theirs...

charlotte, maybe you should get some gaelic metal

that's louder than those dam rap!!!

Give me a title and for sure I'll download it

Or� S� Do Bheatha Bhaile
Rocky Road to Dublin
Brian Boru
Ride on
the middle Kingdom
Ossian's Return
(all by Cruachan, like that band )

Thanks, I'll have a look !

We were performing with Cruachan in St.Peterbourg 2 years ago.
The guitarist/singer of the band was walkin through the St.Pet streets and had found a musical shop with very cheap russian Distortion amp. And bought it, of course...
Well, the soundcheck starts... A girl is singin Ride On... And at second verse this distortion guy joins singin and playin'...
Shite! Men are like kids - the adore their new toys!
The girl, her keyboard and even drums sounds had disapeared!
Only roaring guitar and the guy growlin "Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide Ooooooon"...

yeah, I like that song

...and swagger like a "muh'fucka"

and dont forget to send us a picture

She is a HOT Parisian, AND she can Sing too!

yes, and because of that I want to see a pitctuer

and an mp3, too. please

at the moment Im watching a chinese opera...

There's a damn pic on Patrick's website
And I give no MP3 (or maybe if u pay for it !) lolllllllll

I would, I would I'm your greatest fan

Im totally drunk

Lol.
I'll sign you an autograph

Charlotte

Preferential treatment! You'd think we'd be safe from that kind of crap in this forum, but no... it seems some people still are more equal than others.

To make up for this you'll have to send photos, autographed, to everyone registered here.

Am I star then???

You can start demanding appearance fees for posting on this forum...

I won't. It wouldn't be fair. I might be a star, I won't ever forget my old friends. (sorry but... who are you?)

aye I listen to them and my favourite song would be Joe mcDonnell too... or else sean south from garyowen.

My fave song from the wolfe tones would be also joe mcdonnell...

I like Rock on Rockall

and lately I am listening to the tunes like The Great Fenian Ram

A lot of them overall

My faves are Rifles of the IRA, Rockall, Row in the town, etc.
Joe McDonnell makes me cry

BTW, what were the hunger strikers thinking, a country that arrests people without crime isnt gonna give a crap about a handfull of people starving to death (not insulting them, just curious)

It's not how you die but for what you die.

If you live life with nothing worth dying for you are not living.

Jeremiah,
in some way their death has done more for the cause than if Thatcher had given in their demands. You cannot but consider how important their death was from a mediatic point of view : suddenly the world was looking at Ireland. Sadly and cynically though it may seem...

My favourite song (ever!) is "Fighting men of Crossmaglen". It really has the power. I like also "Rifles of the IRA".