The History Behind: 'Come Out Ye Black and Tans'
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2023
- The story behind the Irish song 'Come Out Ye Black and Tans'.
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Come out ye black and tans was the first Irish rebel song I ever heard which introduced me to Irish history. I absolutely love Ireland, the history, the people, the culture, everything! also the songs are amazing.
What a great introduction to Irish history! 😁
Same actually, I remember it was Easter 2022 when we were travelling up to Scotland. We made a playlist of Scottish songs, when suddenly this came on and I absolutely loved the accent and lyrics. Thats when I fell in love with rebel music. ❤❤❤🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I’m of Irish descent but live in the US many friends and family members sent money to the IRA. The struggle of Northern Ireland between the British dates back prior to 1916 to almost a millennium since the Anglo-Norman invasion. The IRA even had funding from Gaddafi who was known to support and group resistant to tyrannical British rule. Ireland has a rich history. Ireland has the most geniuses per capita and the Druids were respected by Greco-Roman empire. Ireland was one of the only countries in Europe to not be conquered by Rome
It was mine too, as being 25% Irish, it is one of my favorites! 🇮🇪🇮🇪
davy, It is said the that the title Black and Tans was first used as a nickname for the Scarteen Hounds, a pack in Knocklong in County Limerick
My grandad was a provo that moved the U.S.A, he taught me a lot of Irish songs. This one is one of my favorites
It’s one of the best tunes for sure!
"A Provo that moved to the U.S.A., …" you say, and I say he was NO Provo.
Sethx Did he kneecap kids when he went to the US.
Or blow up any pubs with innocent people in .
Or did he leave that behind him in ireland??
They was trendy Provo lol@@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk
After the war of independence many of those who fought in it were blacklisted. Meaning they could not get employment anywhere in Ireland. A lot of them went to America for work.
Ireland ☘️❤️
I'm not irish but I would be proud to be an Irishman. Great Nation with Huge heart ❤️. My favorite international team ☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪
Thank you my friend 💚
Hallo,
I'm a German student and songs like this made me learn about Irish history. We learned NOTHING about it at school, only a little bit about the UK. I asked my history teacher a week ago. I will teach my class about it hopefully next week.
Thanks for your content🤗 and sorry for my bad English 😅
You used perfect English
Cool and u have great English
Yeah
Yeah
@@gavdev Thanks. I was very bad in English at school. But I spend my free time on it the last months. 😊
I’m a Brit , of Irish ☘️ catholic descent,, I love Ireland 🇮🇪 and everything about it
Heard this song (Colm R. McGuinness cover) for the first time about 2 weeks ago and now I’m hooked on the history of the Anglo-Irish wars. We don’t get taught about any of this in English schools!
Delighted you are enjoying the history! 😁
Black n Tan was a slur in my household, growing up in GB in the 70's. My father used it against anyone who riled him .... Loving the channel!! ☘✊☘
Did he ever mention the Irish Blue Shirts?
You have an amazing channel, absolutely keep it up. Irish history needs to be remembered!
Thanks so much my friend. Loads more coming! 🇮🇪
Anything about da Blue Shirts Davy lad ?
Who knew three chords and some genuine feelings could be that powerful, eh? Thanks for posting,
Thank you 😁
"Come Out Ye Black and Tans" ~Mr. Krabs cover
There are ton of other Irish songs not rebel related that have deep meaning and history behind them that could also be discussed. Good stuff Davy!!
Absolutely Eddie. I’ll be covering everything really! Thanks a million man 😁
I fell in love with Wolfe tones like a decade ago, and never stopped loving them. Such a unique vibe, always lifts my spirit
My grandfather first introduced me to this song and my mother used to sing it around the house. It’s always been one of my favorites for that reason.
Can't wait to see this 👌👍🍀
Thank you Freddy 😁🇮🇪
I'm a Yank. Barely any Irish blood, a lot more Ulster Scots and English. Despite that, I'm glad the Irish people have what independence you do, and I hope that the the other 6 will join you soon enough. Hoping for an Irish republic the likes of old James Connolly would be proud of.
Great explanation!!!
Wow. My father loved this song well. And now I get it.
I’m English born from a family with Irish connections; my auntie married an Irish fella from Dublin, and they settled down in London. Whenever we visited them we used to play their records (we didn’t have a record player) and there was one I really loved, which I thought was just traditional music. I would turn it up full blast and my older brother would get all nervous and turn it down. To this day Im not sure of the song titles but one was about a jolly plough boy, and going “off to Dublin in the green,” and another was about tearing a red white and blue handkerchief in half.
I understood that an Irish journalist saw the chaps at a station and drew comparisons between them and the Scarteen hunt who wore a black and tan coat.
Davy you are brilliant. I have been seeing you on reels from tic tok. I am a son of an Irish Family, Mom was from Mayo, Dad from Cork. Our families were scattered to the four corners due to the IRA & their involvement. I have subscribed. Your a fine man.
Kevin, thanks so much. I’m delighted that you’re enjoying your Irish history! Really appreciate you! 🇮🇪
The actual tune Dominic Behan used for the song was called Rosc Catha na Mumhan and was written by Piaras Mac Gearailt from Ballykinealyin east Cork in the 1700's.
Thanks for the info.
Big thanks from the US! I plan on getting over there one of these days.
Ty for this video, just heard the song for the first time and wanted the backstory for it because history is always really interesting. I feel part of why I learn so much about Irish history in particular is because they really did make so many (good and catchy) songs bashing the british, so it has me seek out the events they sing of 😂
Absolutely love this song 💚🤍❤️🇮🇪🏴🥰🍀🍀🍀
Finally someone explained to the ether , aye this was also one of the first rebel songs ive heard that got me into all of this and also into you and your channels tiktok and stuff . it just has something in it that has heart and soul of a good song a man would stand behind it
Thank you 😁
Growing up in the Liberties in Dublin I remember me Da walking home from the Lark singing this often. Love the channel btw Davy some great stuff ;)
Nicely done! The video clears up a few things.
As a weirdo, most of these trivial knowledge I acquired through wikipedia. It's good to see more perspectives on the song
"Where are the sneers and jeers that you loudly let us hear when our leaders of sixteen were executed" - A reference to the Easter Rising if I'm not mistaken.
I was mentioned to an Irishman in Dublin that the Black and Tans were like the early Texas Rangers, both were Protestants, but the Rangers were heavily maned by descendants ofUlstermen and Scots-Irish. They both had had a habit of indiscriminately killin innocent people there Irish Catholics, here Mexican Americans.
Irish are some of the best singers for some odd reason. It's in their blood
True that haha!
@@davyholden Jeff Buckley comes to mind first for me. That's a lot others. Chris Cornell was Irish too.
I agree
26+6=1 🇮🇪
Great info again Davy, teach the world! 💪😎👍
Thank you mate 😁
Your videos are AWESOME!!!
Thank you for the history lesson, I was genuinely curious about this songs meaning
I love u Davy I’m from Donegal and this is a great video 🍀🇮🇪🍀🇮🇪🍀🇮🇪🍀
Great song
Great content! Greetings from Poland!
Love them irish deasent
My great granddad was in the Black and Tans in Ireland. Oddly, he loved Ireland and named his three daughters with Irish names.
Crossey and Cummings gave me thisn,
Wolfetones 1981 when we wad spreading mud up the wall.
Great job lad!
Thank you Michael 😁
Awesome! 💪😎👍
😁🇮🇪
I love Ireland such a brave people 🇨🇮💪 🍺🇷🇸
The Black and Tans remind me a lot of the Freikorps from Weimar Germany. The Freikorps were militias of WWI veterans who were fairly decent fighters from their experiences of the trenches, but without the command structure and discipline of a proper army, they often behaved like gangs of brutal thugs.
Not Irish, but I think any population who has been oppressed by a larger international bully can appreciate and empathize with this song and other Rebel tunes
Come Out Ye Black and Tans!
Come Out and Fight me Like a Man!! 🇮🇪
The song sung by the East-German national people's army is actually one called "Es ziehe die Söhne los" or "The sons set off" in English and it's about a New War coming and a Russian father having to let his son go and being very sad about it.
Timeless banger
That the Black and Tans adorned themselves with the garb of the Nazi SA has not gone unnoticed. (or was it the the other way 'round?)
Great explanation. I hear talking about the troubles in Ireland is like talking about the national socialists in Germany (People aren’t too fond of talking about it). That’s just what I hear and I haven’t been able to get anyone to confirm if it’s true or not.
I found the video of the National Republican Army of the GDR. So the army of the eastern communist part of germany when we were divided.
I found the song they sung, its "Es ziehen die söhne los" by oktoberklub.
My favourite irish rebel song
I’m an American with some Irish heritage. I honestly just really love this song.
thx
thanks lad
Great channel Davy, just subscribed. Paul (London)
Paul, thanks so much! Really appreciate it buddy 😊
How about the Man from Mullingar? My dad would sing that every St Patrick’s Day?
Very cool🔥
Thank you 😊
Thanks for the information! In the states I worry these lyrics would get mistaken for white nationalist propaganda. So I appreciate the history lesson. Recently I’m getting into folk songs and this one was always catchy and seemed like he had strong history with it.
Hey Davy, the only video I found was a short clip where the East German Military was singing the song, explained in Russian 😅 So funny! 😂 Thank you for pointing that out! 😁💚
Hope you enjoyed it! 😁💚
Well, considering the fact that the Black and Tans are back and are now being called Azov or Tornado or Ajdar...I fully identify with the Irish Rebs and use " Sinn Fein " all the time. Remember Joe Devlin from Columbo? Well, I'm definitely a poetess and a Ukrainian Antifa Reb.
Come out you black and tans and fight me like a man🇨🇮👍
My grandfather wad shot by the Belfast black n tans
Bloody Brit bastards
Superek są te piosenki . Kawał histori Irlandii ,można wiele się dowiedzieć o skomplikowanej sytuacji Dzięki chłopaku. BO też jestem Irlandcxzykiem który woli pośpiewać pobawić niż Niż te gatki szmatki wielu ambon I trybun zbawicieli.
I like the Alan Partridge version
Come out ye black 'n tans by the GDR army is the greatest You Tube video ever. 😂
Unfortunately they don't allow comments.
You’re a rebel Harry
I never knew what happened @ Killashandra, thanks for the info.
Mr krabs sung this so well
It’s killeshandra not killeshanders to anyone who is not from Ireland who may have been singing this song to themselves
thank you davy for teaching us here... im not irish and was brought to your channel via listening to the italian rebel folk song 'bella ciao' and then wanted to hear other countries rebel folk tunes and I'm so feeling this and foggy dew!!!!
Looking forward, Davy!! 👍🏻😍☘️
Is this the pic you decided for your e-book btw? 😉💚
Thank you Tanja! And yes, this is the pic I chose 😁💚
Love it! ❤️
About the German Army video: It is notable that it was the Army of East Germany that performed this song. Maybe the socialists saw a potential ally in Irish rebels if the Cold War had ever escalated in Europe.
supporting ireland since 1916
Ireland forever their war of independence a real David against Goliath type struggle
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Two years ago I discovered the great Pogues and the Dubliners. I learnt about Irish history, fighting for freedom, the famine and read the complete oevre of Brendan Behan in German. I will travel Ireland this summer for the first time! If I had tried this 35 years before (from GDR), I would have been shot by crossing the border by exactly the same guys who were singing this song (by the army of my own country). Crazy!
Harry, Berlin
Are people were pushed out of Ireland, but were all Brothers 💪🏻🇮🇪
Ireland has been fighting the English for centuries and have not fallen and will never Ireland will be free one day 🇮🇪
All right,mate.I've just been looking it up,I mean the "german version" of Come Out Ye Black And Tans.Obviously it was sung by the eastern german army,from the GDR,ye know?As we all know,the GDR doesn't excist anymore.
Very informative!
Would love a deep dive into The Fields Of Athenry - might not be a traditional rebel song, but one with deep connection to the troubles. From the dubliners to Dropkick murphys to fans of the celtics...
I’ll absolutely do that Kieran. I have done it on TikTok but I’ll do a RUclips video on it 😊
So hyped
Thank you 😁
Great song, as a Kenyan because we fought the British, I like the song
Check out the Irish racist Blue Shirts my Kenyan friend.
You forgot to mention that it was Winston Churchill who came up with the idea of recruiting ex-squaddies as police 'Cadets'-that was their literal title!
True
I always wonder about one thing: in irish pubs in germany, you can order a drink called "The black and tans", its a mix of stout and ale...because i read Dan Breens Bio, i was pretty shocked about it. Do you know why they serve something like that?
It's the colour of it, that's all.
Don't call it a Black and Tan in Ireland, it's a Half and Half
@@Seamus322 mate, id never touched that stuff. I was just wondering. Its like calling a german drink "The SS". Only idiots eould otder that.
One Rebel song that I always liked was The man from the daily mail, I always wondered if there was a story behind that.
Love it! I'll cover it soon😁
@@davyholdenAWESOME!
I heard that it makes fun of an exaggerated newspaper article in the Daily Mail that saw rebels and sedition on every corner. It'll be great to hear Davy's you tube explanation. His other work is very good indeed.
I discovered this song soon after the queen's death (since I fell quite alot of contempt around her death, plus I'm french so I have quite alot of reasons to hate the british).
With good reason
Funny after hearig a singer called
Colm McGuinness
Your video appears
Of the same name of thw song you are talking about
😅
All the best
I have a question, will there be a video talking about the exact contrast song nicknamed "Bring back the Black and Tans"?
Good man. The jumpers. 😂
The Irish jumpers will always be a round.
@@jimmccormack7507 always 😂 I love them 😂
I have a photo of my family members in uniform…I can’t tell which side they fought on though
I think you should do an episode on The Patriot Game by Dominic Behan.
Absolutely!
Do "Hey, Johnny Cope"
Thank you! At last someone with some bloody common sense who actually understands what the song is really all about. It is of course a semi autobiographical song about Dominic's father Stephen (or Frank as he was known by his family or Rosie by his old IRA comrades) and his family living at 14 Russell Street (Next to the despicable and cruel slum landlady Granny Christine English at number 13 who was Stephens real life mother and the boys grandmother) in the late 1920's to the mid 1930's. The term Black and Tans was of course only used as a form of insult to some of the neighbours as Frank (or Stephen a staunch anti treaty republican) comes out drunk from Jimmy Gills pub and is nothing whatsoever to do with the real Black and Tans during the WOI.
Thank you so much for the info 😁
Granny English does have a bad reputation but she didn't charge them rent.
@@danieljoseph369 Thats an interesting statement, so Christine English who was a slum landlady, never charged her tenants any rent? Where are you getting that information from please?
@@skippership7 my Great Nan Behan admitted on live TV my Great Great Nan English held the purse strings and I've heard it banded about.
@@danieljoseph369 Well that contradicts all the other written evidence from the Behan's like TofT etc. I don't think there is any way a slum lady would lets all her tenants live FOC in her houses? That is just ridiculous. Find me some written evidence of this please as I am very interested in life in Russell Street up until 1936.
I'm an English construction worker and the Irish lads would call me a tan bastard ya!. Love the Irish.
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It's ridiculous that I have to split my posting into three parts. I'm trying to post this since 1 week...
Here's the "German version". It's sung by the so called Oktober Klub. Oktober Klub was a more or less governmental singing club in the GDR for propaganda songs. Its members were selected very well because the should have been role models for the rest of rest of the 16 million inhabitants of the GDR. Nobody I know was listening unsolicited to their songs.
ruclips.net/video/Ra84rIqzGFw/видео.html
My grandparents came to the US in the early 20th Century. Do I celebrate St Patrick's Day? No. When I was younger would I go to a "English Pub" and start shit on Bloody Sunday? Yep. I went right past being my father to being my grandparents. :) Tiocfaidh ár lá.
In your IG reel you cited a RUclips documentary video on the terrible Black and Tans. I tried searching but couldn't find the exact vid you referenced. Please let me know where I could find it. Thanks and cheers, mate, from the Philippines!
The video is called ‘the Irish war of independence the road to freedom’ by the channel ‘warographics’. It’s a great video!
If you like this song id encourage you to listen to up the provos by David rovicks it's about the life of France's Hugh's one of my heroes and a great song
David Rovics is a great rebel folk singer and songwriter.
His songs about Palestine really blow me away.
3 the way it was meant to be from the start
Can you break down th song Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep, Mairead Farrell
I will surely look into it 😁
What is the meaning behind the execution on the leaders on 16?