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| Michael O'Connell on Button Accordion |
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All-Ireland Senior Accordion Champion of 1991
Michael O'Connell plays a selection of reels,
commencing with "The Bunch of Keys". Michael
played this music at the West London Branch
of Comhaltas' 50th Anniversary Concert at The
Irish Centre, Hammersmith on 27th April,
2007. Michael's uncle Tom, who hails from
West Limerick, won the title in 1981.
More info and videos at http://comhaltas.ie
Tags : celtic ireland irish button accordion concert reel comhaltas |
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Affichage : 16514
Durée : 194 s |
| Irish Republican Media - O'Connell Street |
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On 25 February 2006, loyalists from Northern
Ireland attempted to march down O'Connell
Street in Dublin.
This group known as FAIR is a bias, bigoted
organisation that attempts to rewrite history
and make claims that those in Northern
Ireland who claim to be british have suffered
at the hands of the Irish for centuries.
They organise marches through Catholic areas
in efforts to spread their hate mongering
much like the KKK did through black areas in
Mississippi back in America during the
1950's.
Their marches include many loyalist bands
singing anti-Catholic/anti-Irish songs,
carrying loyalist paramilitary memorabilia,
and many that participate in these marches
have ties with or were themselves former
loyalist paramilitaries who have killed Irish
men, women, and children merely for being
Irish and Catholic.
This 'love parade' as they labeled it,
involved having pro-british bands march down
O'Connell Street to the GPO while singing
anti-Irish songs and carried pictures of the
loyalist paramilitaries who bombed Dublin
just years ago and killed many relatives of
those who live there today.
Needless to say thousands of Irish men and
women from across the nation came out in a
matter of minutes and filled O'Connell Street
to stop this event.
In the end, due to the overwhelming amount of
people that showed up to protest this blatant
display of racism, the group was forced to
board their buses and go home.
Tags : Irish Ireland Police Gard Brutality Baton Republican Riot Dublin Waxies Orange Order FAIR |
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Affichage : 29096
Durée : 255 s |
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