Presents:
THE BLOODY SUNDAY COMMEMORATION SHOW
In tribute to those who lost their lives on that fateful day January 30th, 1972, in Derry, and all who gave their lives for the cause of a free and United Ireland!
In the powerful sound of Irish rebellion expressed in this brilliant Irish Rebel music, the strong spirit of the Irish people and that of the exile community lives and breathes -
Speaking the undaunted voice of Mother Ireland :
That She will shake off her chains and reclaim her sovereignty and freedom -
Because the Irish people - and this includes the sons and daughters of the Irish Diaspora - will fight on until they win true unmitigated Freedom:
In the words of Florrie O' Donoghue, speaking of the people of Cork and the aftermath of the British onslaught of the Black and Tans:
"The calm undaunted fate of those people looking at the ruins of their own homes. I am not referring to my own people merely. I saw and spoke to them all, and I am convinced that there was something supernatural in the unshakable courage and olden Gaelic simplicity of these people. Truly the hills of Ireland could be levelled to the ground and all her children driven out upon seas of the world before England can conquer us while we have such faith and courage."
Wise words and true -
Such faith and courage is to be heard in the powerful musical fire of Irish Rebel music - the poetry of Pearse, the resilience of the Irish farmer - surviving through drought, famine, and bleak winters with barely enough to feed his own children, much less his livestock - and the inner strength of Bobby Sands, Mickey Devine, Francis Hughes, Patsy O' Hara, Raymond Mc Creesh, Thomas McElwee, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, and Joe McDonnell ---
To summon the combined will and courage of Cuchulainn and Finn Mac Cuhal --
In the knowledge that through great sacrifice comes Victory -
In the immortal words of Padraig Pearse :
You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for Freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed....."
Radio Rebel Gael, the unrepentant Bronx Voice of Irish Musical Rebellion & Psycho-Ceilidh Resurgence !
At Easter time, nineteen-sixteen
When flowers bloomed and leaves were green
There dawned a day when freedom's cry
Called out brave men to fight and die
They were the men with a vision, the men with a cause
The men who defied their oppressor's laws
The men who traded their chains for guns
Born into slav'ry, they were Freedom's Sons
In Dublin town, they fought and died
With Pearse, McDermott and McBride
"Ourselves alone!" their battle cry
And freedom sang to the Easter sky
A poet's dream had sparked a flame
A raging fire, it soon became
And from that fire of destiny
There rose a nation proud and free
Six counties are in bondage still
They died brave men, was this their will?
When they are free and oppressions cease
Only then brave men can rest in peace
Mise Eire - I am Ireland:
I am older than the Old Woman of Beare.
Great my glory
I that bore Cuchulainn the valiant.
Great my shame:
My own children that sold their mother.
I am Ireland: I am lonelier than the Old Woman of Beare.
Padraig Pearse
Victory to the Resistance !
Rory Dubhdara, Radio Rebel Gael
