I learned this song from about the same age. I just learned on my own and I've sang it for years . I don't know why or where I learned it , I know I am of Irish descent , so maybe something trigger in me . When I think about Kevin he was only 18 yet he was tortured and killed by the British . What a hero and here I am thinking of him 30 years after his death. He did not die on vain ✌️
Joan Boyle-You’ve lost me when you say “you’re thinking of him 30 years after his death,” as he’s been dead for over a century, naturally. I don’t know what you mean by that.
Ive been in mountjoy and played this and the jail stood in SILENCE. What a lad of only 18 years. Never forget folks these were real men and women who fought for our freedom 🇮🇪
Use to play this LP when I was a kid my mam use to say u can’t play that it not allowed, didn’t understand then but I still kept on playing I’m past 60 now and still playing 💚🙏🏼☘️ rest i. Paradise Kevin 💔
I am from Vancouver,Canada and i wanted to say that Kevin Barry was a true Irish Hero. Ireland and Palestine got a lot in common. Both countries were partitioned and both countries are occupied by foreign troops. The fight against Occupation in both countries continues to this day and will continue until Occupation is defeated. Hunger strikes are also common in both countries. Recently people in Ireland linked to Bobby Sands organizations supported the Hunger Striker, Khader Adan who died from a Hunger Strike in a Israeli prison. Ireland and Palestine got lots of Martyrs and they are known worldwide. One for All and All for Ireland's 32! From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!
Love this song dad use to sing it often to us all Dad and Mum God 🙏 I miss you both so much dad 54 years old mum died 5 years later so as a grown up I haven’t had my mum and dad if you listen to this remember you won’t have them on dad so make the most of them NOW. 🙏🙏
They cannot kill an ideal divine. More than a Man was Kevin Barry. . . It was not a sin to see the kingdom of heaven and wishing it to be here and now!
@@Jimthewizard14 she married into an English family and they didn't want anything against the English so everyone really disapproved to the point his name was changed from Kevin Barry to Vincent Barry
My late bro called Kevin Barry if we lived Ireland he fight for cos God rest my big brother Kevin barry mc Greenock Scotland forever 53 love you my Hero
My mom named me after him. I always wondered why, but, sometimes I think she may have wanted me to pick up the traits that he had when fighting for a free Ireland (and also when facing death)
I hope you are ok? Your mum named your after an icon and a man whose bravery resonates to us all. I grew up in Liverpool and trust me I knew a lot of Kevin Barry's. My mother ( 92 yrs old now) would always refer to the sweet smelling annual plant 'Sweet William' as 'Stinking Billy' ( still cracks me up). If she ever saw aforementioned plant in a front garden ..........oh my lord , a humph and then, we would be told ( again and again) about Kevin Barry. Great name you have x
@@mrmrsm7185, I am alright, thank you. I always looked at being named after him as a good thing. I tend to be a little outspoken about injustices (not as much as many, but, more than the average). I think that's because of the example set for me by who I was named after.
@@kevinwhelan5893, I don't know about you (though, I wouldn't be surprised if you feel the same as I do), but, I'm rather proud of being named after him.
sadly not Irish but i love the people and country ,from the shame of the famine roads and ships ,to the years of struggle and hero,s who gave everything a crying shame it had to happen.
My father left lismore down the south. Co Waterford. Moved to southie. Aka south Boston. Grew up there went back and forth to Ireland my whole life. 37 now. I’m very pro American. But damn is my heart always in Ireland. The Irish built the USA. Built many nations. Very pro Irish Catholic
Michael Collins & his band had a failed attempt at breaking Barry from prison.Sources say Collins was never entirely the same after.Both Barry & Collins are with God now.Vale Celtic warriors.
Never knew but when my Dad died I found the original postcard. Uncle Jimmy went from Baltinglass to Dublin at the age of 7 to stand with the women outside the Post Office. Guess they were just not having it anymore ...
R.i.p.kevin Barry.one day northern ireland will be free.england will never own northern ireland with their bands and there parades that's all they know.ireland will never belong to england.just the same as the malvins island that belongs to argentina .one day things will hit england pretty hard but with a good lesson.A price will be paid but not with money.thrt think the own the lands of the world .but it is a country that is full of racism against you need to live here to see it and feel it. They think they own the world but one day a lesson will be taught.sooner or later. Never give up ireland or argentina .vive ireland and argentina always🏭🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇮💕💕🌹🌹🏴🇭🇹💕💕💕
I have a Charlie Taylor record with this song on it, and there is still another verse(which comes between the second and third verses here). It goes like this: “Shoot me like an Irish ☘️ soldier, do not hang me like a (dog? I have never been able to make out this word for sure, due to Taylor’s thick brogue), anyway-“For I fought to free ould Ireland 🇮🇪 on that cold September morn’. All around that little bakery where we fought them hand to hand. Shoot me like an Irish ☘️ soldier, for I fought to free Ireland 🇮🇪!!!” This phonograph record belonged to my grandparents; now it’s mine. Other songs on it include “Black Velvet Band.” Wearing off the Green, Wild Colonial Boy, and of course Danny Boy.
This is the version we learned at school. But there is another song about Kevin Barry; sung by Bjorn Ulvaeus in 1964. Yes Bjorn from ABBA. Still prefer Tommy Byrne and the Tones.
Charlie Kerins sung this and 'Kelly the Boy from Killane' to the warders before he was hung on the 1st Dec 1944, Dublin. It's against nationalist tradition to mourn such deaths, as it implys that the sacrifice was not worth while.
Just a lad of 18 summers, let us never forget Kevin Barry. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Tiochfaid ar la 💚💚💚🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Here here -without men and women like him we wouldn't exist
My Dad is Irish and he learned me this Irish songs when I was 8, now I'm 66 and still remember, thanks Daddy !
I learned this song from about the same age. I just learned on my own and I've sang it for years . I don't know why or where I learned it , I know I am of Irish descent , so maybe something trigger in me . When I think about Kevin he was only 18 yet he was tortured and killed by the British . What a hero and here I am thinking of him 30 years after his death. He did not die on vain ✌️
Great song eh!🇮🇪☺️
🧢
Joan Boyle-You’ve lost me when you say “you’re thinking of him 30 years after his death,” as he’s been dead for over a century, naturally. I don’t know what you mean by that.
Am named after him
Such a powerful song in recognition of the powerful impact Kevin Barry made on this Nation 🇮🇪
God Save Ireland 💪🇮🇪
Ive been in mountjoy and played this and the jail stood in SILENCE. What a lad of only 18 years. Never forget folks these were real men and women who fought for our freedom 🇮🇪
My mam brought us upp with this song
Wdym by "the jail"?
@@Ramzi1944 prison
@@ordinarydecentcriminal5449 You played this song in jail?
@@Ramzi1944 yes in Mountjoy while doing a 6 year sentence
100 years ago today. RIP
Disgusting thing to do this to a beautiful young man, so brutal
My name is maureen not megan, disgusting what they did to him.
What a tune what a song. My God we could with men like Kevin Barry now
Use to play this LP when I was a kid my mam use to say u can’t play that it not allowed, didn’t understand then but I still kept on playing I’m past 60 now and still playing 💚🙏🏼☘️ rest i. Paradise Kevin 💔
Wait, why didn't she let you listen to it?
Hardly more than a boy, and yet he showed more fortitude than most "men" nowadays. God bless him.
I am from Vancouver,Canada and i wanted to say that Kevin Barry was a true Irish Hero. Ireland and Palestine got a lot in common.
Both countries were partitioned and both countries are occupied by foreign troops. The fight against Occupation in both countries
continues to this day and will continue until Occupation is defeated. Hunger strikes are also common in both countries. Recently
people in Ireland linked to Bobby Sands organizations supported the Hunger Striker, Khader Adan who died from a Hunger Strike
in a Israeli prison. Ireland and Palestine got lots of Martyrs and they are known worldwide. One for All and All for Ireland's 32!
From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!
100th Anniversary Go maire tú suaimhneas. We remember you today Kevin Barry you stood by your comrades. 💙💙
Ok
love and respect from INDIA 🇮🇳
Young tiger kevin u r the symbol of liberty and patriotism...
What a beautiful song my grandfather sang this many a time when he had a wee dram love it ❤❤❤❤❤❤
First traditional Irish song I listen to in its entirety. Eye opening. Thank you Wolfe Tones!😊
Thanks to you Kevin, I am am free. Thank you.
Greetings from Argentina
Love this song dad use to sing it often to us all Dad and Mum God 🙏 I miss you both so much dad 54 years old mum died 5 years later so as a grown up I haven’t had my mum and dad if you listen to this remember you won’t have them on dad so make the most of them NOW. 🙏🙏
One of our many brave men who stood for our freedom.
Are there Protestants in the IRA?
love and respect from INDIA 🇮🇳
Young tiger kevin u r the symbol of liberty and patriotism...
@Caroline Thanks from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪🇪🇺
Free Kashmir!
Thank you!
You had your troubles with the British too
@@aheat3036
Free BALOCHISTAN
Free PAKHTUNISTAN
Used to listen to this 50 odd years ago with my grandad in Scotland- hope I’m as brave as him I used to think🤔
may he always be remebered in history
There is no doubt that he will be remembered. He was a brave man just at 18 years. We are always proud of lads like him.
My great grand uncle. Love you Kevin.
We are all very grateful to your Great Grand Uncle THANKYOU for YOUR BRAVERY AND COURAGEOUS SOULS 🙏❣🫂🫂🫂🫂❣☘
They cannot kill an ideal divine. More than a Man was Kevin Barry. . . It was not a sin to see the kingdom of heaven and wishing it to be here and now!
My Nana got in a lot of trouble for naming one of her sons after him. I can definitely understand why she did it
What kind of trouble?
In new Zealand we have a Kevin Barry was.heavyweight champ.
Fought holyfield at 84 Olympics
@@Jimthewizard14 she married into an English family and they didn't want anything against the English so everyone really disapproved to the point his name was changed from Kevin Barry to Vincent Barry
Great song great singers to the great kevin Barry. Powerful.
Amazing man were not long ago... Thank you, irish people, for great example and clear bravery, and inspiration (so needed in these days specially)!
This photo brings every thing into context for me. WOW... I cry for thgis young man so many years ago. Thanks for the history lesson. C
Thank you across the pond!
Playing this today for my brothers first heave nly bday Kevin Barry mc fae greenock Scotland
Y n w a miss you big
brother x
Hope he's happy in Heaven, from another Greenock man 🇮🇪
@@brianreilly4647 tnx pal godbless 🙏
Kevin you were a true Irishman and a courageous Republican. Happy Anniversary, may you R.I.P. AMEN. NR. IRELAND.
True Irish hero.God bless you.
I've grown upp with kevin barry song
Remembering my mam, r.i.p
Heartbreakingly powerful
@@dianefallahi7133🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🏴🇮🇪🏴🇮🇪
I've alway's believed in an independent Ireland. Love this song dedicated to a brave young man , who stood up against evil.🇮🇪
Rest In Peace brave son of Erin gone but never forgotten 🇮🇪✊
I'm Scottish now look at this young man's face only 18 This is so sad😢
R.I.P. Kevin.
Prayers For Ireland.
My late bro called Kevin Barry if we lived Ireland he fight for cos
God rest my big brother Kevin barry mc
Greenock Scotland forever 53 love you my
Hero
What a true Irish man
My mom named me after him. I always wondered why, but, sometimes I think she may have wanted me to pick up the traits that he had when fighting for a free Ireland (and also when facing death)
I hope you are ok? Your mum named your after an icon and a man whose bravery resonates to us all. I grew up in Liverpool and trust me I knew a lot of Kevin Barry's. My mother ( 92 yrs old now) would always refer to the sweet smelling annual plant 'Sweet William' as 'Stinking Billy' ( still cracks me up). If she ever saw aforementioned plant in a front garden ..........oh my lord , a humph and then, we would be told ( again and again) about Kevin Barry. Great name you have x
@@mrmrsm7185, I am alright, thank you. I always looked at being named after him as a good thing. I tend to be a little outspoken about injustices (not as much as many, but, more than the average).
I think that's because of the example set for me by who I was named after.
@@mrmrsm7185, it just occurred to me that Kevin Barry was born 20 January. My son (John) was born 98 years and 1 day later on 21 January
I'm a proud and loyal Canadian subject of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth BUT I proudly support the Republican Irish in a united 32 county Ireland
@@kevinwhelan5893, I don't know about you (though, I wouldn't be surprised if you feel the same as I do), but, I'm rather proud of being named after him.
Always and for ever Kevin barry . What a proud an strong Man U was. Forever and always in my thought. ❤
We will never forget you Kevin Barry 🇮🇪 ❤🙏
Our love to you all. You all are in our thought s. To a free Ireland and a free Scotland. Love from Scotland
sadly not Irish but i love the people and country ,from the shame of the famine roads and ships ,to the years of struggle and hero,s who gave everything a crying shame it had to happen.
My father left lismore down the south. Co Waterford. Moved to southie. Aka south Boston. Grew up there went back and forth to Ireland my whole life. 37 now. I’m very pro American. But damn is my heart always in Ireland. The Irish built the USA. Built many nations. Very pro Irish Catholic
I listen to these songs what a hero (god bless Ireland)🇮🇪❤️☘️
I will always remember Kevin Barry ... May he RIP
I was named after him my dad always played it then I player Danny boy at is funers rip dad I'll never forget miss u dad wise man my dad
😢😢💯🙏❣️ Very emotional song thank you for sharing this brings back memories of times long ago ❤️
Breaks my heart.
My dad played this song every weekend with other rebel songs I'll never forget hero's one and all ❤
Michael Collins & his band had a failed attempt at breaking Barry from prison.Sources say Collins was never entirely the same after.Both Barry & Collins are with God now.Vale Celtic warriors.
R.I.P KEVIN BARRY 🙏 MAY YOU BE AT REST MY BROTHER AND BE WATCHING OVER ALL OF US GOD BLESS YOU A BLESSING TO US ALL YOU ARE 🙏❤️💪 TIOCFAIDH AR LA
We will never forget you God bless you
Luv this song luv Irish rebel songs👍
Makes me so proud 2 be Irish. These young lads gave their lifes for us. Can't imagine how young & brave they where 😢☘
Proud to say this is my family lineage ❤🇮🇪
101 years today
God bless you Kevin Barry ❤😂
May the lad of 18 summers rest in peace
Yes our real Irish hero's never for goten never bless all the hero's spirets😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Love this song ☘️☘️☘️
My uncle gave me this song when I was only seven. April -2. Then he got killed in a car crash on 13 yh April, he only 21 ❤❤❤
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God bless Kevin a hero🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🍀
Never knew but when my Dad died I found the original postcard. Uncle Jimmy went from Baltinglass to Dublin at the age of 7 to stand with the women outside the Post Office. Guess they were just not having it anymore ...
God rest his poor soul may he rest in peace in Glasnevin.xx
his name is enshrined in history.....yet his executors have been dumped into historys bin..like wallace in scotland he has the high moral ground
A was privileged to play in the Kevin Barry republican flute band great band for great irishman🇮🇪32
What a brave young Irish man , all I feel in shamed of the so called Irish men these days . Such a cowardly in the main
Just a young man ,that wanted to make a differance,
R.i.p.kevin Barry.one day northern ireland will be free.england will never own northern ireland with their bands and there parades that's all they know.ireland will never belong to england.just the same as the malvins island that belongs to argentina .one day things will hit england pretty hard but with a good lesson.A price will be paid but not with money.thrt think the own the lands of the world .but it is a country that is full of racism against you need to live here to see it and feel it. They think they own the world but one day a lesson will be taught.sooner or later. Never give up ireland or argentina .vive ireland and argentina always🏭🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇮💕💕🌹🌹🏴🇭🇹💕💕💕
Poor Kevin, fought valiantly for his nation's freedom and was killed for it.
A true irish man ❤️
Makes me sad
Blessed
I am bavarian, but should i be anything else i would be irish.
So sad.
Came here because of Angela's Ashes
may he RIP .
Dads name was Terrance Michael Joseph Kevin john Patrick D I think he was Irish ☘️
I have a Charlie Taylor record with this song on it, and there is still another verse(which comes between the second and third verses here). It goes like this: “Shoot me like an Irish ☘️ soldier, do not hang me like a (dog? I have never been able to make out this word for sure, due to Taylor’s thick brogue), anyway-“For I fought to free ould Ireland 🇮🇪 on that cold September morn’. All around that little bakery where we fought them hand to hand. Shoot me like an Irish ☘️ soldier, for I fought to free Ireland 🇮🇪!!!” This phonograph record belonged to my grandparents; now it’s mine. Other songs on it include “Black Velvet Band.” Wearing off the Green, Wild Colonial Boy, and of course Danny Boy.
My mother always sang this song and I remember that missing verse you mentioned. I wonder why they leave it out now.
My uncle was named after him .he just died few days ago.funeral was today
This is the version we learned at school. But there is another song about Kevin Barry; sung by Bjorn Ulvaeus in 1964. Yes Bjorn from ABBA.
Still prefer Tommy Byrne and the Tones.
I have been to O’Connell street a few times recently, it was like the Middle East - what happened to my beautiful country?
Unreal.
He learned me. If he was English or a Scot, he would have TAUGHT me the song
We need lads like Barry now to fight the covid shite
🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I’m a loyalist but I do think that this song is very good.
A hero
Tom Williams was 18 and Hung in Crumlin road Jail Belfast also in the early forties. I Drink to the death of her Manhood
kevin barry brolly is my name am proud
irish ND PROUD
😢😢☘️🍀🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Charlie Kerins sung this and 'Kelly the Boy from Killane' to the warders before he was hung on the 1st Dec 1944, Dublin.
It's against nationalist tradition to mourn such deaths, as it implys that the sacrifice was not worth while.
Only a child n the dirty bstrds tortured him God forgive them cos we wont
Erin Gobragh
Nothing from the government is free.
Come on you hoops Celtic are magic
A true republican
And for wat! Ireland isnt Ireland no more 😢
Up cork!
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