Irish rebel songs

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Irish rebel music is a sub genre of Irish folk music, with much the same instrumentation, but with lyrics about the fight for Irish freedom, people who were involved in liberation movements, Celtic unity, and attacks on the 'British invaders'. It has also being used to record history and historical events in song. This is not confined to Irish history though, but includes the exploits of the Irish Brigades who fought for both France and Spain, and also those who fought during the American civil war. Irish rebel music has occasionally gained international attention. The Wolfe Tones' version of A Nation Once Again was voted the number one song in the world by BBC World Service listeners in 2002.[2] Many of the more popular groups recently such as Eire Og (band), Athenry (band), Shebeen (band), etc. are from Glasgow. The Bog Savages of San Francisco are fronted by an escapee from Belfast's Long Kesh prison who made his break in the September 1983 "Great Escape" by the I.R.A. The parody band Ding Dong Denny O'Reilly and the Hairy Bowsies satirize this musical genre with songs such as The Craic We Had the Day We Died For Ireland. Music of this genre has often courted controversy with some of this music effectively banned from the airwaves in the Republic of Ireland in the 1980's. More recently, Derek Warfield's music was banned from Aer Lingus flights, after the Ulster UNIОNist politician Roy Beggs Jnr. compared their songs to the speeches of Osama bin Laden It's a group for those who love Ireland with its culture and music, or just those whose life is rebellion.;)