Keith

The one interesting point in this thread so far:

"What percentage of rebel songs were written pre-1920?"

Probably higher than you might think. Quite a few were were written around the centenary of the 1798 rebellion, and there was a strong movement towards patriotic poetry and song in the early part of the 20th. C. Earlier, of course, Thomas Davis's The Nation newspaper and associated books had helped popularise many nationalist songs - of which some survive.

Regards

p.s. As to the thread's mainline: Whatever about GIVING offence, we Irish, in all our scattered components, are champion at TAKING it!