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Songs are an important part of a peoples resistance. In times of despair cheerful songs or war tunes lift our spirits; songs commemorate fallen comrades or retell notable events; songs show that we cannot and will not be defeated. Of course, songs on their own cannot beat the enemy. Or can they?
In the H-Blocks of Long Kesh or the dungeons of Armagh Womens Prison, songs became a weapon in the prisoners meagre arsenal; songs showed their defiance and broke the spirit of their captors. The songs were sung in Irish; sung without accompaniment "sean nos" style; songs echoing along quiet corridors from behind cell doors rising in solidarity. The prisoners sang political songs, old rebel tunes, new songs.
Such are the verses here sung by The Irish Brigade. These are the kind of resistance songs which are heard in Belfast, Derry and Tyrone or in the quiet countrysides of Fermanagh, Down and Armagh. They tell of a struggle which is yet unfinished, and in telling that story they help to ensure that all those whop live and die in Ireland or for Ireland do not die in vain. Listen to them.
This album is dedicated to the memory of the ten men who died on Hunger Strike in 1981. They shall never be forgotten. Their struggle goes on .....
The Hunger Strikers