Blsck Fitzwillian and Arthur Grey were Tudor Barons or Earls, who occupied the territory known as 'The Pale'/'English Pale'. O'Byrn (Ó Broin) was one of the main rebel clans that resisted English expansion in Ireland, where the term "beyond the pale" comes from. Rory Og O'More was another rebel and was executed by Lord Kildare. Lord Kildare was a title in the English Pale held by the FitzGerald family and was essentially the same as a viceroy or deputy ruler, he was meant to answer to the crown.

@henrydunn2245

Жыл бұрын

Why do we have to live with this Medieval so called English/British disfunctional Royal Family when they are from European descent?

@rosaleencanning7228

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. ...helpful to know what the songs about...gives it a bit of beef..

@simontimoney

Жыл бұрын

Ballbags

@michaelbyrnes7210

9 ай бұрын

Pardon?

When I was a young man I visited my Doctors surgery. She was an irish lady & I asked where in Ireland she was from. She told me Carlow & I burst into song 🤣🤣. She joined in. Lord knows what those in the waiting room thought as I left the surgery with a broad smile across my face

@antonralph6947

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings from carlow.

@anthonywalsh7613

3 жыл бұрын

@@antonralph6947 👋🏼👋🏼

@WizzardJC

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonywalsh7613 sounds like something I would do, but there again you do have my father's family surname so maybe it's genetic

@anthonywalsh7613

2 жыл бұрын

@@WizzardJC 🤣🤣 Maybe. Hey on that subject. I am researching my family history, but my fathers side is sooo tough, whereas my mothers is coming along nicely.

@WizzardJC

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonywalsh7613 I know right is it because of the name Walsh? I've had problems as it's an Irish Catholic family, the family tree literally just explodes out branch wise. My father's mother comes from a family of 16, who came from 14, who came from another 16, so as you can imagine I have hundreds of cousins that is not an exaggeration. I do wish you luck though possibly distant cousin 😃

I lived in Dublin for most of the 70’s. It was the greatest time for Irish music.

i am from Brazil and i love this band

In 74, I taped an hour of Irish music, from a college station in Ohio. Probably by accident. WOW, what music! And this song really got to me!I didn't understand the names or the lyrics well, but I got the meaning. They do this song justice!

This song is literally seething with raw emotion....I love the music, love Christy's angry vocals and the bold Irish brogue on the lyrics. Having just discovered Planxty I feel like I've missed out on a great secret. Watching early footage in smoky Irish pubs has really awakened something, maybe from my ancestors, and hunger for more of it. Thanks for posting this astonishing music and the lyrics as well.

one of the best covers, if not the best cover of this song. christy moore sings wonderfully in this song. i cant explain it but it sounds mysterious or something. honestly, planxty had some great songs as raggle taggle gypsy, but out of all i think this is the best. just so impactful

this is the best version...i think...i have listened to all the rest.

It is an amazing song, it insults everyone including fellow Gaels like the O'More's renowned raiding clan, his own brother MacCahir Og and it names and insults the Tudor butchers and knows what awaits them in England for this failure and humilation. It positively rolls in lyrical gore. What a song.

@annamhaid4047

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasbrennan819 I have read so too. Apparently the O'Moore's were a notorious clan who would not be cowed into submission up there. In some of the references to them they appear to have been really feared!

@gerardodwyer5908

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasbrennan819 Listen lad, the Celts or Keltoi never made it to Ireland. Pure myth planted in fertile soil by the likes of Yeats and Maud Gonne to sell books. Gaelic Ireland identified as Gaels, hence Gaelic League, Gaelic Athletic Association, etc, etc. Try to locate the "Celts" section in the national history museum, and good luck with that. I'll save you a trip. It doesn't exist. The Gaelic section is there and extensive.

@wolfthequarrelsome504

Жыл бұрын

Very well described.

@TuorTheBlessedOfUlmo

Жыл бұрын

"och great is Rory og o'more as he sends the loons to Hades" how is that an insult? Your a typical plastic paddy talking literal shit because You're 1/28th Irish. Gimp

I hope a modern incarnation of what Planxty represents will emerge from the new generations. These songs must never die!

@johnnoonan4775

9 жыл бұрын

Yup!

@feidhelmofoghladha5525

9 жыл бұрын

Ian Zulick nothing dies in Ireland,

@lars526

9 жыл бұрын

As an American of Gaelic descent I shall do my part!

@cathalodiubhain5739

6 жыл бұрын

fear maith

@lillyswift42

4 жыл бұрын

Listen to The High Kings version. It's my personal fav.

My brother sent me a message saying he found a song about one of our ancestors and here I am listening

This song was passed onto me from our librarian. A man of God a believer with faith and grace in our Lord and a Presbyterian son of God. God bless you Martin from all us students in the Highlands. May we all meet again one day, till then.

@theoschnitzel5132

2 жыл бұрын

God God God...

@Deperuse

Жыл бұрын

This is Catholic song. He talked about the Irish rock in reference to the famous outdoor mass rocks, being the altar of a Catholic mass, being the altar on which Christ, the Son of God, Our blessed Lord Himself is immolated, and very present in the Holy Eucharist. So that’s why for an Irish, you would absolutely not let anyone disgrace an Irish rock.

@KevinMurphy0403

12 күн бұрын

Please leave religious superstitions out of it. Enjoy the song without dragging fiction into it

This was my grandpa Jim William Byrnes' ancestor great great great grandfather. My mother's dad side. I have the blood and the spirit.

@Tjhybyrne

Ай бұрын

Am a Byrne/Heybyrne too

this is the best irish song u cant deny

Great song, thanks for posting and putting the lyrics up. By the way, at 1:51 it sounds to me more like "White is sick, Grey is fled, now for black Fitzwilliam's head" (rather than "Lane is fled"). Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, led the English force, which did flee. Plus, lyrically you get that nice White, Grey, Black thing going on ...

Wicklow always has a magical atmosphere, lots of great memories there.

@mrmattquinn You're spot on. It's "Grey is fled", and flee he did. Despite being wickedly outnumbered, Fiach managed to lead the English troops through a pass in Wicklow where his archers were high in the woods looking down. I'm from that part of the country.

@jasminederian5780

4 ай бұрын

I'm full blood Armenian. Born in Los Angeles. The Brits chased the Irish around and stole lands. The Ottoman Turks did the very same to us . We are family. Jasmine

Manx. A Manx Nationalist. Respect Planxty

I remember in college (in the '00s), when we were trying to hype ourselves up before football, all the other lads were listening to speed metal and I was listening to this!

this song and music transports me straight to the medieval period

Fantastic group, I saw them in concert in the 1970s when I was a teenager.

This is the dogs of a drinking song. Pure class.

@rebeccaconway7625

2 жыл бұрын

Not a drinking song.

@wolfthequarrelsome504

Жыл бұрын

@@rebeccaconway7625 tryna to remember the words when drinking will prove or disprove that. Maybe a better jig dancing song.

"There flows a stream of Saxon gore" Powerful.

The last track, side one, of that great black album; 'Planxty' it still stand up all these years later.

And me. I was weaned on this stuff but haven't revisited it for years. Great to hear it again.

I've heard a lot of Planxty over the years, but this was a new one to me! Thanks for posting.

The Well Below The Valley is the first Planxty Album I would suggest to purchase.

the lyrics are badass

@paulmarkgood

8 жыл бұрын

+Dae Dalus Thank you!! ^^

@danielmckenzie5659

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul Good did you write them?

@paulmarkgood

8 жыл бұрын

nope !

@ciaranscanlon3555

4 жыл бұрын

17ll3 x214 that’s be cool if the lyrics were that old, but I’m pretty sure the tune is only that old. The lyrics were written within the last 150-200 Years

@beago7873

3 жыл бұрын

Ciaran Scanlon Elizabethan conquest or something so it must of been like 400

County Wicklow's 'anthem ' .Thanks for posting .The song relates a 16th century conflict between the O'Byrne clan and Queen Elizabeth 1 's attempt to subdue them. Wicklow despite being next door to Dublin was the last county in Ireland to be formed /shired. The lyrics are somewhat gory but then so was the history of the time . Enjoy the song anyway whether you're Irish or not and leave the politics to the politicians .

This is Catholic song. He talked about the Irish rock in reference to the famous outdoor mass rocks, being the altar of a Catholic mass, being the altar on which Christ, the Son of God, Our blessed Lord Himself is immolated, and very present in the Holy Eucharist. So that’s why for an Irish, you would absolutely not let anyone disgrace an Irish rock.

@gerardodwyer5908

3 ай бұрын

Amadán. The period covered here is the 15th century. Gaelic Ireland didn't identify as "catholics" but as Christians linked to the Church of Rome. The mass rocks became "a thing" after the introduction of the genocide driven Penal Laws against "practitioners of the Roman faith" in the 17th century. Read a history book or two bubba. DUP?

great band planxty real trad irish music top stuff.

I used to watch a group called Paddywack in Liverpool.They did a great version of this song.

@dafteverton7218

6 жыл бұрын

curleyteeth follow me up to st micks !

Tremendous. Got my soul twitchin for battle.

This was my Late Husbands Party piece Love it..

Planxty was a huge part of my childhood. My loved them. Even had his own band that played their songs. Miss those days.

This is a righteous mix. Thanks.

Perfect version of a great song by a perfect band.

Fantastic,especially with the lyrics. Peace Love All Ways

Beautiful!..........................

Bloody classic. Dad's favourite

Love love love so many ireland memories❤

I'm not a violent man, but whenever i hear this song i just want to grab a pitchfork or other sharp farming tool and march on the Pale! Great song! I like how it can emote the desire to pitchfork English people even in the most pacifist of individuals....

@Philrc

Жыл бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣😂 " _I'm not a violent man..._ " You are, you are!

@claremccarron3058

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Beautiful !

Beyond fantastic

The O'Byrne's of Wicklow, one of the clan, "always there".

@tomotoole7602

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the ,OTooles

@chazza9586

3 жыл бұрын

@@tomotoole7602 💪🏻🇮🇪

Nobody can sing this like Christy.

if ever you want to deal with an injustice done to you or your culture ,play this

@harikali7569

9 жыл бұрын

Paddy Mcgloin Yeah, this has been getting young Irish boys to throw their lives down in front of the British Army for centuries. Probably still is. Few pints of Guinness and a drop of the creature, and he's off, with an auld Armalite, crawling over the badlands of Crossmaglen on his belly, in the dark, just to take potshots at the Royal Marine sentry, who's on point duty. Or at patrolling Landrovers, with hand grenades or whatever, and if he makes it across the border to Ulster, he has an old alarm clock and a couple sticks of blasting gelegnite to make a ticky tocker with, and leave it at Enniskillen Bus Stop, before jumping the last Bus to Armagh. Course, what will most likely happen, is he gets slotted by a British Paratroop Sniper with a nightsight as soon as he sticks his head above the bogs in Crossmaglen. Boom! One more Martyr for pore auld Ireland! Never mind, loads more where they came from me laddos . . . . Follow me up te Carlow!

@richardmulkeen4167

Жыл бұрын

@@harikali7569 ........back to the desert with ye ! No surrender !

Christy Moore. Bless.

Proud to be a decendant of Fiach Machugh O'Byrne

@conroyobroin6473

8 жыл бұрын

Yup

@joebyrneleighlinbridge3244

8 жыл бұрын

+Dinorawr318 sO AM i

@Dinorawr318

8 жыл бұрын

The Clann remains proud of us Byrnes both past and present Im sure

@joebyrneleighlinbridge3244

8 жыл бұрын

We Byrnes are goin to get back OUR O

@patrickmacsweeney9727

8 жыл бұрын

+joe byrne leighlinbridge If you're a grandson of the man whose name was Byrne, you're an O'Byrne.

Great Song!

Beautiful

The marching song for the final battle ... Éire go brách

Up the Great Gaels of Ireland.......

@SeamusMartin1

4 жыл бұрын

Many of the leaders of the 1798 rebellion were not "Gaels" but descended from Presbyterian settlers from Scotland.

@Falscaidh

4 жыл бұрын

@@SeamusMartin1 When Fiach McHugh was fighting them off the Presbyterian "settlers" hadn't yet been planted here.

@SeamusMartin1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Falscaidh Oops! How embarrassing. I always assumed that this song was about the 1798 rebellion. What era does it refer to?

@SeamusMartin1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Falscaidh Aha! The Battle of Glenmalure, during the Second Desmond Rebellion in 1580.

@ninjacell2999

4 жыл бұрын

@donkey face jordan He said descended from the settlers

Brilliant piece of music

One of the best numbers on the Planxty black album. Need anything more be said?

Best song i ever heard

great song

clicked by accident. Bliss!

God damn--what a song!

The Pale was the wall surrounding large towns everywhere. It's not specifically Irish. The term beyond the pale was used widely all over England and Ireland.

@Max_Griswald

2 жыл бұрын

Well, that's why it's an English Pale in the song.

Why is it that I, as a Polish man, feel a fealty to these lyrics and sentiments?

@alastairward2774

4 жыл бұрын

@Sott Media you remember that time the "Brits" came to Poland's aid, right? It's a general desire by any oppressed people to be free again, Poland had it so much worse than Ireland, but it's not a race to the bottom and one oppressed people feels the same as any other oppressed people.

@susanhorton9492

4 жыл бұрын

all nations love and crave freedom thats why

@hughcurtis5178

4 жыл бұрын

@@alastairward2774 The English sent 100,000 Irish swordsmen to Sweden (to get rid of them after the Irish war at the end of 1500s). During the 30 year's war the Irish were set to engage the Poles in a certain conflict. When hearing that the enemy were catholic the Irish, of 50 thousand, switched sides and their distinguished hostaged landsmen (50;000) were put to death by the Swedish forces.

@joebrett3614

4 жыл бұрын

@@hughcurtis5178 Do you have a source on that? I get nothing on Internet searches.

@hughcurtis5178

4 жыл бұрын

@@joebrett3614 I read it in a history by the Irish Cardinal O fee (O Fiach in Irish). Google 'Irish Swordsmen in Sweden' or see here www.researchgate.net/publication/290079994_The_transportation_of_Irish_Swordsmen_to_Sweden_and_Russia_and_plantation_in_Ulster_1609-1613

Love it!!! I've been fascinated with Ireland recently and have loved listening to Irish music for decades. I don't believe any of the standard histories of Ireland, not even about the hunger. Ireland is a place of great spiritual power, period. It has more sacred sites than any other country and many of them have churches built above them. That's how the powers that be weaken our spirituality and manipulate it for their own very dark agendas. I believe that, yes, there was a severe potato blight, but that it was very suspicious and highly unusual for this to have happened. In addition, I am convinced that there were large stores of other food that the English controlled and exported from Ireland for their own gain and kept from the Irish people INTENTIONALLY! The English were and are the personification of the "service to self" mentality that is the basis of all evil. The controllers of the U.S. and Israel fit neatly into the same category, of course.

@starrover1111

9 жыл бұрын

***** Sorry - I never meant to imply that the people of England were responsible for the what their heinous rulers (and those above the rulers who actually gave the orders) did. In fact, being American, I feel the same way about Americans. Young people fight in criminal, meaningless (for them) wars for the benefit of central banks and corporations that control almost every aspect of their lives. Ditto for the Israeli people. The only difference being that now people have no excuse for not looking beyond the lies and omissions in their history textbooks and seeing behind the same being propagated by their governments and major media. I also know how much Americans are despised around the world and especially by those in countries where they have done their dirty work. I live in America but don't consider myself a citizen of the United States Corporation.

@starrover1111

9 жыл бұрын

I know what you meant as soon as I read your comment, so it is cool! Also, I started listening to Pentangle in the early 70s. I love them and saw Jacqui McShee live in NYC in the mid-80s. I also love Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span.

Ch.:[Em] Curse and swear Lord Kildare [G]Feagh will do what Feach will dare [EmNow FitzWilliam, have a care [G]Fallen is your[Am] star, low [Em]Up with halbert out with sword On[G] we'll go for by the lord [Em]Feach MacHugh has given the word, [G]Follow me up to[Am] Carlow.

CHYA.... love it!!!! My student says it all the time. Braithre Thar Gach Ni! TAL

follow me up to carlow..... the drawin beet song!!!!! good aul memories

gret stuff!

proud to be irish

@tomtd

11 ай бұрын

Proud to be English, and we sometimes share Irish heritage, but not the bigotry.

Powerful wonderful song. I love it but don’t forget the words were written in 1899.

@user-ys5yv2nz6w

3 жыл бұрын

Supposedly the air itself goes back to the 1500s though

Ceatharlach abú!

Love this song. Why is it called follow me up to carlow tho? Is it not about a battle in the Wicklow mountains?

I did; thanks! Grey got his clock cleaned!

@daveeol I'm only half Irish, and I love the old Rebel songs. The other half is English, so maybe I had 2 sets of ancestors fighting on different sides at Carlow. Doesn't detract from a good tune though.

Well... I'd never heard this song before. I love it of course, just as a music fan... But I'm guessing there's a lot in there about history/politics/religion, and yes I acknowledge I do not understand it all - all the names and references (I am french after all...). I will search on the internet about it, hoping to make some sense out of it. (By the way, the Irish accent? I just love it.)

@Thrillseeker666

8 жыл бұрын

+Nicolas Méro Check out the Blood Axis cover

@Maggot91ify

7 жыл бұрын

Nicolas Méro the song is about a man named Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne (or his Gaelicisized named Fiach McAoidh Ó'Bróin) who defeated an English army at the battle of Glenmalure in the 16th century

@alanoneill3065

6 жыл бұрын

good luck with that because ... kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGyuqZaThsrZgbA.html

@Falscaidh

4 жыл бұрын

@@Maggot91ify "Gaelicisized"? Fiach Mac Aoidh Ó Broin is the original.

@Danitt27

4 жыл бұрын

If you like Irish music check out Celtic Woman

Metal af

Thanxs

A Nation Once Again: 16 Irish Rebel Songs featured a fast, aggressive version of this brilliant song.

@Theanchoritegarlic

8 жыл бұрын

+Colin Webb Volume Two, still investigating the band's name ...

@TheKittu

8 жыл бұрын

+Colin Webb It's probably The Wolfe Tones.

@geraldinemccarthy7084

5 жыл бұрын

sometimes I'm in the mood for a more rousing version, but I like the quieter menace in this one too.

Boss. Go ed lads. Scouse/Eire

The Reelin' Rogues do an excellent version of this song at Renaissance festivals.

I love the arrogant cockiness in the song, go on have a dig at your Irish clan neighbours (The O'Mores), kick your Brother when he is down Cahir Og, and rant gory insults on the English commanders, they all trip off the tongue like one big melodic rant. It must have been the most ridiculous place to march an army into!! A great song. BTW the author also wrote the equally rousing Kelly the Boy from Killanne another great blood curdling rebel song.

1.5x for true Irish badassery. Fiach MacHugh approves.

@spencerhawkins9107

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely. It's too slow

RAWR

Its about my ancestors fight with Queen Lizzie the first! And at Kinsale!

@matthewmcgonigle4667

4 жыл бұрын

I am descendent of O'Byrne to or the clan I am not sure that side of the family is all passed

@moorek1967

3 жыл бұрын

I descend from Rory Og O'More

@moorek1967

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewmcgonigle4667 I descend from Rory Og O'More

@deirdregreene5042

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewmcgonigle4667 I'm a proud decendent of Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne aswell

@trevordwyer7930

2 жыл бұрын

@@deirdregreene5042 I'm descended from Michael Dwyer I believe

very good song

Queen's dead laaaaads

O’ Byrne ❤

Greynsilver: isn't there a HD setting for video uploads? By the way, thanks for posting this classic song.

Why would anyone dislike this????? Geailge aon duine?

I always thought Liam looked vaguely pissed in that portrait with the band-he's the only one of them that bothered to shave, shower, or put on fresh clothes for the photograph and the others look like a pack of ruffians...and Liam's expression shows it!

@davogrynne

9 жыл бұрын

Your reading too much into it....Liam always looked like that back in the day,as did the scruffs.....

@bhoyardee

6 жыл бұрын

RIP Liam O'Flynn.

Chya!

The lyrics say "Lane has fled", but the correct is "Grey has fled", the English commander defeated by Fiach

@johncraig9794

9 жыл бұрын

Liam Gallagher All to true you. Now you have the Sudanese and Somalian refugees to deal with. How will you deal with them?

@liamgallagher6336

9 жыл бұрын

We also have an influx of Haitians. But that’s Brazil, arms open to the world.

@liamgallagher6336

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info Ian, yes, the Normans definitely left their mark on our history. the problem with the Irish back then was that on many occasions the clans fought each other or sided with the English when they thought there was some gain in it for them.

@joebyrneleighlinbridge3244

8 жыл бұрын

+ian scott When the re-formation came to England, and Catholics were discriminated against. This left the Norman/old english/Catholic Aristocracy with no choice but to side with the native Catholics. In Ireland they became Irish We then got a totally NEW ARISTOCRACY OF anyone who was not Roman Catholic Fitzgerald,fitzsimons,Burke,Wolfe, fitzhugh, Roche, all the old english/norman families simply became Irish.

@cannavaun

8 жыл бұрын

+joe byrne leighlinbridge "More Irish than the Irish themselves" is the phrase I remember from school history.

My music teacher played this

Raw power!!

@pascalomathghamhna4883

3 жыл бұрын

We are Irish. We will never bend the knee!!

La fheile Padraig sona dhuit.

Guild of Dungeoneering!

This should be Ireland's national anthem.

You are very welcome. ^^

This is the Guild of Dungeoneering.... :)

@ahz1998

7 жыл бұрын

Escobedo on our quest were never veering

🍷

"Now for black Fitzwilliams Head, We'll send it over drippin' red to Queen Liza and her ladies"...Slayer would be proud of those lyrics!

Listen to the "Fine Crowd" version. A festival band that almost made it , a fast version.