Bubblyrat, Jim Lad and Ruth, Do you know what it is like to live for years as a second class citizen, to be despised because of your nationality and your politics, and to leave school with no chance of any work, with your only hope emigration, to leave your family members behind.
Tommy Makem like a lot of other Irish nationalists from the occupied six counties lived through this misery, the amazing thing is that for 50 years we did very little about it, living in a police stste you had little choice.
Has anyone written sings about the children murdered by the RUC and the Britsh Army, would it move you to hear a song about the 14 unarmed men gunned down in Derry, the IRA for all of their faults always gave warnings.
When the Unionist leaders declared " a Protestant parliament for a Protestant people" those songs of resistance are written from the heart, would you have taken this crap thrown in your face for years and stood idly by?.