One of my sons favorite songs. R.I.P. Bud 1987-2009 I'll love you forever......

@masoodahmed2041

4 жыл бұрын

I am sorry to hear about your son but this is such a magnificent ode to the fallen to remember him by.

@PurpleBeattie

2 жыл бұрын

Your son god rest his soul,had great taste. Immense song

@cloudlymars3627

2 жыл бұрын

May he rest in peace

As an Irishman from Armagh, this hits me hard!

@oreilly67

2 ай бұрын

my family are from Armagh , And this song stirs up a lot of emotions !

My great grandfather was a 17 year old Fenian who fought for Ireland in 1867 God bless Edward Russell.

@cloudlymars3627

2 жыл бұрын

17! What a brave lad he was

@masoodahmed2041

2 жыл бұрын

How old are you now just out of interest.

@fieldagentryan

2 жыл бұрын

may his soul be at the highest seat of the creator of all things beuatiful brave and bold !

@glenvalley4326

Жыл бұрын

A brave lad who fought for a noble and just cause.

@seosmaguire4828

Жыл бұрын

That’s brilliant

Remember the dedication and love of country of the Fenians

God bless Ireland

My great great grandmother would sing this song. She was a flower seller on the Streets of Dun Laoghaire, she would pick the wild flowers and sell them. She had a tough life. This song will always remind me of her. The essence of the Irish people lives in the songs. This is Solemnly beautiful.

@shantellebarrett7570

2 жыл бұрын

I got lucky

@annmarcellus6683

Жыл бұрын

Your comment brought tears to my eyes. Thank you. I love sons of the pioneers since i first saw them on a small black and white tv in rio grande w/JOHN WAYNE! H

My grandmother was watching this with my grandfather who had dementia, and Parkinsons disease...and I've never forgot this song or their faces. Enjoy the ones you have

@jennifer082255

Жыл бұрын

Did he remember the song?

God bless all who stand up against tyranny and bullying.

Glory, Oh, to our heroic patriot dead. Ireland isn’t a geographical expression for an island off the coast of Europe. Ireland is the living soul of its people. Every generation shows its courage and its commitment and its will to Victory. Beidh an lá linn 🇮🇪

@gerryscully9248

3 жыл бұрын

Could not have put it better, The Gael lives here and Eire lives in us. Is mise Eireannach.

@seamusohoulihan666

2 жыл бұрын

Are you from Ohio?

This was the entrance song in my father and brother's funeral.

He could rival the best Irish tenors. And SO handsome!

@jennifer082255

Жыл бұрын

He sure was talented

@nicholasstiso8790

10 ай бұрын

Ken Curtis at his Best ! Sons of the Pioneers.

The greatest gift God gave to the Irish...is to be born there to be Irish to be proud to be warm gentle Fearless when that is called To be the Son She is our Mother For her all deeds . Must be done Glorio Glorio To the Bold Fenian Men

One of the greatest songs ever !!!!!

@abhishekbisht4307

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't expect you to see here

This is a wonderful film. Ken Curtis had a truly superb singing voice. Thanks for sharing. A very happy and peaceful Easter to all.

This is a really well done version of a great Irish patriot song. Ken Curtis sung it beautifully. Technically the song itself though would not be written for a another 37 years after the movie's timeline.

what a voice

Of all the great versions of this song, I think..... I think I've found my favorite. Thank you for this.

When the man cried I felt a sharp stabbing pain. It was truly sad.

We'll never know better!

Just sublime beauty. The nicest bit of singing I have ever heard and the movie Rio Grande is superb

this melody and narrative is so powerful and truthful, that they play it at the annual DUP AGM above in stormont

@michaelcoughlan313

2 жыл бұрын

really? Why? Just curious.....

Festus from Gunsmoke had a gorgeous voice!

@terryhaugen9533

10 жыл бұрын

And don't forget he was in many John Ford directed John Wayne movies. He played the "slow" guy in The Searchers

@BrickPa

9 жыл бұрын

terry haugen You mean Charlie McCory the ranger Sergeant

@GriffonKeeper

9 жыл бұрын

terry haugen I kindly ask you to unhand my fiancy.

@suzysoundz

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, and my homie here in rural Colorado! (Ken Curtis)

Sang this loud and proud in barlinnie 😢

Wow I had no idea That this is the guy who played as Festus Haggin on Gun Smoke just never put it together... lol . That’s incredible.

@marksprague1280

11 ай бұрын

Before that, he was "Monk" in two episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel . When he sang in the second episode, my mother laughed with delight at the stunned expressions on the faces of myself and my brother, because she knew who he was from his time singing with Tommy Dorsey.

“John Ford, John Ford, John Ford.”

Rio Grande (1950), directed by John Ford

what a beautiful singer & song, wonderful memories♥♥♥♥

Beautiful voice.

Great.

Ken Curtis is the singer. What a beautiful voice. He played Festus in Gunsmoke and couldn't have sounded more different. Was also John Ford's son-in-law and appeared in a few of his films eg' the Quiet Man and The Searchers (he sang in both of those too!) Lovely song. There are actually two more verses which are not sung here and, interestingly, it was written in 1910 (I think) even though this film is suppsoed to be taking place in 1873.

@padraigcullen1696

5 жыл бұрын

Jon Ford directing at his best( Rio grande 1950) Ford had a strong sence of nostalgia for Ireland the land of his forefathers The Quiet man partly shot in Ireland being one of his best

@tomjohnson3473

Жыл бұрын

And sadly fit right in with the war to end all wars,1916

Love it Love it,,TIOCFAIDH AR LA.

Ireland's influence in the New World.

Haunting. Ken Curtis, aka Festus on Gunsmoke got his start as one of the Sons of the Pioneers, who are singing this song

@marksprague1280

11 ай бұрын

Before the Sons of the Pioneers, he sang with Tommy Dorsey's band.

The "Regimental Singers" shown here are the Sons of the Pioneers with Ken Curtis singing the lead.

A great Irish song. Well sung. (See McLaglan crying). From Red River, I think.

@marklilley589

7 жыл бұрын

Rio Grande (1950) one the cavalry trilogy, the other two being Fort Apache (1948) and She wore a Yellow Ribbon(1949).

God save Ireland, please!!!

Sometime a pleasant suprise arives - - 'Unexpectly' - - Thanks Ken C. - - Rio Grande - - and all who were part of.

Do people know that this film was banned from being shown in Belfast when first released, absolutley true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yer boy's some chanter. This is lovely :-)

Beautiful voice and he sings it at just the right tempo. One of best versions out there of this moving song.

Sad, sad people and their bitter comments. God bless all Ireland, Catholic, protestant and disenter, North and South.

@irishdc9523

7 жыл бұрын

Sean McGurk Plastic Paddys, free staters and stickies the lot of them.

@SeanMacOirc

7 жыл бұрын

Who's the Plastic Paddies and Stickies?

@irishdc9523

7 жыл бұрын

Sean McGurk Not calling you any of them, I was talking about the sectarian comments under this video.

@SeanMacOirc

7 жыл бұрын

Deaglan Cullen - apologies a chara!

@irishdc9523

7 жыл бұрын

Sean McGurk No worries mate

Rien de mieux qu'un bon western avec John Wayne ...

great stuff

The best movie and best song ever thank you Ford

excellent !

Look at the poignant reactions of all the officers, especially the general, and Maureen O'Hara. Directer John Ford knew what he was doing.

@josephmonahan4262

2 жыл бұрын

Ñòt same passìon fròm your coward of a British loving traitors with more money in their banks churches whilst the Irish live on line of economics and controlled

@josephmonahan4262

2 жыл бұрын

Stand firm Irish get a left wing government in out with the f2f f2f vote Irish Sinn Fein give them the rains

@gerardodwyer5908

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephmonahan4262 Nice to see your lobotomy was a complete success bubba.

thanx mate

Love it

The singers are the famed Western music The Suns of the Pioneers with the lead singer being John Ford'sthen son-in-law Ken Curtis, who would gain fame a decade later as Deputy Festus Hagen in the long-running Western television series "Gunsmoke."

A great film. My favourite with JW after The Quiet Man. As an Irishman from Ireland, I must say though that this is not a version of Bold, Fenian Men I've ever heard before. I learned a completely different traditional version in my youth.

@Hoosierhorsesense Anyway, the song says "I'ts fifty long years, since I saw the moon beaming ... " - I suppose that the song sees the Young Irelanders from a 1916 perspective. That's reason why the song adds to the film a sort of time travelling atmosphere ^^

@neonblack6

3 жыл бұрын

I know this is probably 10 years too late but its a ballad from the fenian revolution in the 18th century :)

Hmm I have to really like this one - I'm familiar with several versions of this song - great scene - was unaware of the movie etc. My Mom's father's families and their allies (O'Dwyers with Butlers, FitzGeralds/MacCarthys, McGraths, O'Ryans, O'Kennedys all those rebels in the 1600s in and around Tipperary - they all show up in the ancestral proprietors in Tipperary and surrounding lands in 1640 and transplants into Clare after the rebellion and Cromwell's confiscations (the next generation who was too young to fight in the 1640s were referred to as somewhat "Innocent Papists" and were transplanted to Clare - later they rebelled again)! Also Maguires from further North with O'Neills, O'Donnells, MacDonnells (who were MacDonalds of the Isles), MacAulays of Lewis/likely the Gallowglass family allied to MacDonnells, and Armstrongs and Wallaces from SW Scotland as well as O'Reillys and Nugent from Coolamber). Most of these relationships still show via Mom's/Uncle O'Dwyer's DNA matching in addition to my Mother having a distant connection to French cousins descended from the Breton noble families of Northern Brittany where Irish exiles such as the O'Sullivans Beare (they were from West Cork - Mom/Uncle get a lot of O'Sullivan cousins), O'Dwyers and Maguires settled after 1650 and into the 1700s) as she has more than one of those distant cousins from there and they in fact have Macquer (Maguire) ancestry. The Maguire family when they lost their ancestral lands for the most part and went into exile (with the exception of the Tempo family - same family though anyway genetically their descendants ended up in Cavan and Longford as well - Colonel Hugh Maguire who locked Lady Cathart up in Tullywell - his will was probated at Castle Nugent in Longford (his father I believe - Bryan Maguire - married dau. of James Nugent of Coolamber so they had a connection to that place) in 1766 a mile or so from where my Maguire/Wallaces are found in parish records - these McGuires (spelled both McGuire and Maguire) served in regs of foot with Wallaces - were also in the Dragoon regs - they would have known each other and attended the same parish etc) when they were not fighting in foreign Catholic armies - they were merchants and traders and our Maguires who ended up in Ontario were merchants and custom collectors as well. That was my Grandfather O'Dwyer - his mother was the Maguire - he was an Uber Jacobite ;-)... but never spoke about it. He hated any type of racism... he and his brother fought in the American army in WW2 - Grandfather in Germany and the Pacific and his brother was a War hero - won the Bronze Star at the Siege of Anzio (as a Sgt. he went in as a Pvt. with the 45th Inf Div that invaded Sicily) and the Silver Star defending against Operation North Wind as a 2nd Lt. - he was KIA in that battle in the early part of that operation. Maternal line goes back to Northern Tipperary as well and O'Kennedy, O'Danagher and O'Meara, O'Meagher territory... also Hayes/O'Hea and O'Hanrahan from Cork/Tipperary mixed with rebels (Murrays/O'Mahoneys) who went over to New South Wales - same with the O'Dwyers in 1798... a few Maguires ended up over there as well and they are our distant cousins. Speaking to a distant cousin in East Clare our O'Dwyers (mixed with O'Corrys and O'Gormans in West Clare still speaking Irish) took part in the Clare Brigades in the Easter Rising and War of Independence - makes sense of the DNA matching we all have with Flemings from the Swan in Laois - they share our O'Dwyer ancestry and were among the group under orders from Pearse - Eamonn Fleming from the Swam commanding... to fire the first shots of the 1916 Rising or so the story goes. Also on my father's side (Lutheran Germans and Scots/Irish both early Pioneers to Colonial Pennsylvania) - my 2nd Great Grand Father George Webster Weber/Weaver's (his mother was a Ferguson from a Scottish Jacobite family) brother served the last year and about a half in the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry in our Civil War for the Union forces - went in as a Pvt. and mustered out as a Corporal and later had joined up as a Corporal/Saddler in the US 6th Cavalry and was listed later as 1st. Sgt. of Company M in Tyler, Texas - he served through the whole "Indian" War period - well technically reconstruction into Outlaw Wars, then Red River war and Apache etc depicted in this movie - he was with the US "Fightin' Sixth" from 1865 till his death at Fort Niobrara in 1891. So you can be sure I'll be watching these movies! Thanks for the post!!!

a good one now to all

Does anyone know where I can get the full song? His voice is awesome .

It is quite incredible how many heroes you can actually find amongst the men of WW1/2. Hail to them and their memory, And this is a most beautiful song too.

@gerryadams2212

6 жыл бұрын

PanzerKrigs this has nothing to do with the world wars but the fenian irish rebels

as a mancunian irish born in the same cityasthe 3 mancheser marters beautiful song fenianmeans warrior arentwe all ancestors of celtic warriors tal3281

what did one snowman say to the other snowman "can you smell carrots?"

God bless the irish!

Such a sad Irish song.

so buitful ....

@1968dove Rio Grande (1950), directed by John Ford

Piękne

ndian wars jackets and cavalry cross sabers? What movie s this?

the SONS of Pioneers, of course...their most famous song was probably Ghost Riders in the Sky.

Indian wars jackets and cavalry cross sabers? What movie s this?

@cruelintone it also kinda links 1798 to the 1840's and 50's and the famine etc or so my dad tells me lol

my family were Fenians

Fantastic song and a rightly dedicated to the Bold Fenian men . There is however a sad side to the service of many Irish and other Europeans who served with the US army during the Indian wars. The massacre of so many Indians must have left those who inflicted it with much regret in later life.

what film was this please

A beautiful song here I also prefer Liam Clancy version.

What movie is this?

O I am a loyal Protestant. From Eirens Iyel I came. To see my Glasgo Bretharen in Honorr and in fame. for I think apon my fore fatheirs. In golden days of yore. its on the 12th day of July I where the Sash my Fatheir wore. o it is old but it is buetifull and its coloure it is fine. it was worn at Derry Ocaran Inerskilin and the Boin.

@marklilley589

8 жыл бұрын

+Sean Doherty Splendid!

@zXCFXz

7 жыл бұрын

Why are you so salty Suas an Ra

@neilmccann99

7 жыл бұрын

Derry Ocaran Inerskilin and the Boin. lmao

@SeanMacOirc

6 жыл бұрын

Looks like you need a good spelling lesson! Boyne, Enniskillen!!!!!

@WarderLan

6 жыл бұрын

Ill take you seriously when you learn how to spell. Orc

What film is this from?

@Hnnhjoy88

5 жыл бұрын

Rio Grande- John Wayne

is this a movie and if so whats it called

@gregoralani

7 жыл бұрын

Real Money Online Rio Grande (1950) amazing movie :) you're welcome

Protestantism: the cause of all evil. I feel bad for those traders. The philosophy of men gets you nowhere. Glory O, Glory O, to the bold Fenian men!

@Zombehnation1001

8 жыл бұрын

roughly half of Irish Republican leaders are rolling in their graves.

@bluesnail5042

8 жыл бұрын

I too feel bad for those traders, let us not forget the Shopkeeper Battle of 1931.

@irishdc9523

7 жыл бұрын

Traditional Catholicism Yet you praise people who demanded a separation of church and state

@hangsamich3098

4 жыл бұрын

@@Zombehnation1001 as each day passes this becomes truer

@paulne5695

2 жыл бұрын

You know the Catholic church opposed fenianism right? They banned their followers from following them. Fenianism calls for the separation of church and state.

GIP

what film is this?

@thoor81

8 жыл бұрын

Rio Grande (1950), directed by John Ford

@kingjohnson1991

7 жыл бұрын

yeah isnt john wayne in this film?

Das Lied wurde zwar erst 1916 von Peadar Kearney geschrieben (siehe Wikipedia)...Aber geschichtslose Amerikaner singen es schon 1865🤣🤣🤣

@marksprague1280

11 ай бұрын

And clueless commentators are pushing the targeted date of a film back 15 years.

@Hoosierhorsesense There was no Fenian uprising in Canada. They came from the States to invade Canada. Poorly organized and were thrown back by Canadian militia. The U.S.A. took a dim view of their actions not wanting an international incident.

@denisrogers4543

5 жыл бұрын

The Fenian raids into Canada, in the years after the American Civil War, were only a footnote to the Fenian movement. The Fenians , who derived their name from a mythical Celtic warrior band called the " Fianna", were dedicated to a united Ireland. Relatively few in numbers they fought against the might of an empire. Their predecessors were "The Wild Geese," their successors, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Republican Army.

Pretty sure this song was called Down By The Glen Side and Bold Fenian Men was not a ballad. More a battle anthem.

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@damienholden2132

5 ай бұрын

Orange

at least read a history book before posting inane comments

Great song, but it makes little historical sense within the context of the film. The song is about the "Bold Fenian Men" (volunteers of the Irish Republican Brotherhood), nationalist volunteers who fought against the British occupation of Ireland. It was composed by Peadar Kearney, an Irish Republican, shortly after the failed 'Easter Rising' in 1916. The problem is, the movie is set in 1879 -- 38 years before the song was written! It's possible that director John Ford thought that the song applied to the various Fenian raids that were staged out of the United States into Canada in 1866, 1870, and 1871. During these raids perhaps a thousand Irish-Catholic emigres living in the United States (many of them Union Army veterans of the American Civil War) attempted to "invade" Canada (which was then still part of the British Empire) with the rather absurd notion that they'd somehow be able to occupy the country and "hold Canada hostage" in order to force Britain to withdraw from Ireland. None of the raids were even remotely successful, with the largest effort being defeated at the Battle of Trout River (fought near Huntingdon, Quebec) when perhaps 500 British regulars, supported by Canadian militia, routed the disorganized and poorly led (and mostly drunken) Fenian force after a brief engagement. If it's these "Fenian" raids that Ford meant the soldiers singing the song in the film to be recalling, he was stretching the truth a great deal. The entire enterprise of the Fenian raids against Canada was viewed by both the Irish emigre population in the US, and the Irish people back at home, as being an ill-considered an largely embarrassing affair. It's rather doubtful that any soldiers in the US Army serving in the southwest would have even heard of the raids, let along be wanting to memorialize it in song.

@Dandyhurl

4 жыл бұрын

The uprising of the "Bold Fenian Men", whose official name was the "United Irishmen" took place in 1798. Many troopers in the US army on the frontier would have been descendents of the exiled and deported Fenian men. The rebels were both Catholic and Protestant (dissenters) and this was the origin of the tricolour flag of the Irish Republic.

@Dandyhurl

4 жыл бұрын

The relevance of the song in the context of the film is another question, but John Ford just felt like slipping it in there. Personally, I'm glad he did. It's a wonderful version of a great song!

Why are soldiers in the 1870s singing a song from 1916? Proof of time travel in this film

@gercastle01

10 ай бұрын

Its about the Fenian uprising of 1867

Wee don't need john Wayne ....UP THE RA

Not the song.

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Thomas remove the p from your name and add a b . Oh and put an s at the end . Its what you talk a load of