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Thread #165776   Message #3982247
Posted By: Jim Carroll
15-Mar-19 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: Irish V Irish V British & the Famine
Subject: RE: BS: Irish V Irish V British & the Famine
"Irish people have demanded to hear songs about killing Englishmen."
Just as our folk clubs have been presenting songs about killing the French, Germans..... and jsut about everybody else going back centuries
on;tr be silly Karen - wars always produce songs
Did you know that that after some of the sorties in Ireland (where British soldiers conspired with sectarian terrorist groups) the soldiers took trophies from the events and made up songs, hung them on the wall of the NAFFIs and made up about their adventures
An archivist friend went to The North to purchase examples of sone of the songs being made - one of the prizes in his collection was a Loyalist cassette enitled 'The Pope's a Darkie'
Grow up please Karen there are no good sides in war - only winners, losers and the dead
Jim