...Why should I show any respect to people who worship the bastards that pulled a mother of 10 from her home then tortured and murdered her?...

Learn your history mindballster, you silly bugger, and come back and tell us what a good guy Cromwell was.

I sing Irish rebel songs because my Grandmother sang them to my Father (Long before the IRA were formed I believe, Mick may be able to verify this or correct me)and he sang them to me.

I also sing them because I believe that any country has the right to self rule, a few people here in the USA agree with that too.

Not many of us agree with terrorism, but you really have to look at the way that Catholics were treated in Northern Ireland, over the last 80 years or more, to see what YOU would have done had you been placed in that situation.

Sing a few rebel songs yourself and maybe people will eventually   treat each other with love and respect when they learn how badly people have treated each other in the past.

It wasn't you, it wasn't me and it wasn't Mick, but we should all try to learn from the past in order to make sure such atrocities remain in the past where they belong.