The Jackets Green - Irish Folk Song

A beautiful Irish folk song from the perspective of a woman whose husband fought in the Royal Irish Army alongside Sir Patrick Sarsfield. The song references the treaty of Limerick and the subsequent 'flight of the wild geese', when Irish soldiers left Ireland to go and fight in the Catholic Imperial powers in Europe, like France, Spain and Austria. Most of these men went to the Kingdom of France along with King James II where they started an Irish brigade in the French royal army which lasted until the French revolution in the 1780/90's.
The song is rather ignorant in the sense that it portrays the Williamite war of a simple Ireland vs England conflict, and as a matter of fact, the Irish soldiers would have actually worn red, not green. This is not a complaint from me, just saying.

[@rhodesianian]

Lovely song you posted there me mukka,reminds me of my gf

[@Hibernica1641]

Thank you, Mr Smith!

[@sethfrisbie3957]

What are your feelings towards the British Empire? I actually like it outside of how it treated you Irish and how it treated the Scottish that chose to speak Scottish Gaelic instead of English. Also good song. Yet I do wonder how the British treated actual Irish Protestants to see if the treatment was better or not.

[@quisutdeusmfl]

I read that there could be no Catholic teachers in Ireland, all should had been Protestants by law, also that Catholics were not allowed into higher education until the 19th Century

[@sethfrisbie3957]

@Cicero1690 good to know.

[@Hibernica1641]

I am pretty pro-British Empire, because I, unlike many other of my compatriots, acknowledge the huge role Ireland and Irish people have played in building and maintaining it.

[@sethfrisbie3957]

@@Hibernica1641 I can see why though.
Had the rebellion of 1798 not happened than perhaps your nation would have been more developed.

[@Liarson]

@@Hibernica1641 why might i ask you are pro empire?