Contact:
Dr. Helena Sheehan
School of Communications
Dublin City University
Dublin 9 Ireland
Tel: 00-353-1-704-5568
Fax: 00-353-1-704-5447
present:
The CD was released on 1 December 1998.
The songs, recorded in Dublin City University School of Communications, are sung and accompanied by activists in the trade union movement.
Tracks on the CD and audio cassette are:
THE RED FLAG: written by Jim Connell in 1889 and for decades an anthem of the international labour movement. We have made a number of recordings of both the Tannebaum and White Cockade versions of the song. The first recordings we made are on the website as sound files. The final recordings of both versions are on the CD. The Tannenbaum version is sung by Jimmy Kelly. Musical accompaniment is by Mick Lacey on banjo, Mick Hand on flute. The White Cockade version is sung by Des Geraghty with Martin Whelan. Musical accompaniment is by Noel Pocock on pipes, Mick Lacey on banjo and Nora Geraghty on guitar.
The
Red Flag
the
song the
man the
monument
We have also included the final chorus
sung by the crowd in Crossakiel Co. Meath
on 26 April 1998 on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument to Jim
Connell as a track on the CD.
LABOUR'S CALL:
written by Peadar Kearney in 1918 and also sung to the air of Tannebaum.
It has sometimes been sung as additional verses to The Red Flag.
It is sung here by Martin Whelan accompanied by Mick Lacey on the banjo.
A REBEL SONG:
written by James Connolly and sung by Jimmy Kelly with Johnny Flood and
Martin Whelan in the chorus and Mick Lacey on banjo.
THE WATCHWORD OF
LABOUR: written by James Connolly and sung by Joe Deasy.
Music by Colin Patterson. It has long been an anthem of the Labour
Party as well as of the ITGWU, now SIPTU.
DUBLIN CITY 1913:
written
by Donagh MacDonagh and sung by Jimmy Kelly. It recalls the lockout
of 1913 and rising of 1916. It celebrates the role of Larkin and
then of Connolly in the life of the Dublin working class.
BREAD AND ROSES:
written and sung by Martin Whelan is a song inspired
by Sean O'Casey's characterisation of James Larkin as "a man who would
put a flower in a vase on a table as well as a loaf on the plate".
Music: Martin Whelan on guitar and Mick Lacey on banjo.
TALK TO ME OF FREEDOM: another original song of Martin Whelan, expressing the dismal reality of unemployment, which he wrote when he was unemployed.
Bread
& Roses and Talk to me of freedom
written and sung by Martin Whelan
text / photos / lyrics / sound files .
DAUGHTERS AND SONS:
written by Tommy Sands
and sung by Johnny Flood. The chorus is sung by Colin Patterson and
Cliodna ni Mhurchu. Music: Colin Patterson on guitar and keyboard.
TEN YOUNG WOMEN AND
ONE YOUNG MAN: written by Ewan
MacColl and sung by Cliodhna ni Mhurchu. It recalls the
Dunnes Store strike in Dublin when young workers put their jobs on the
line in support of the union anti-apartheid ban on South African merchardise.
TRIBUTE TO
ROBERT
TRESSELL: written by Martin Whelan and sung by Fergus Whelan.
It celebrates the life of Robert Noonan, author of the book "The Ragged
Trousered Philanthropists".
Click here
to hear the song.
Producer: Dr.
Helena Sheehan
Sound engineering: Colin
Patterson, Eoin Sweeney
To hear the Morning Ireland
report by RTE journalist Ray Colgan on the launch of the CD, click on
RTÉ:
News: Morning Ireland: 02 December 1998
Helena Sheehan.
Some related websites by HS:
Has
the red flag fallen ?
European
socialism: a blind alley or a long and winding road ?
Grand
narratives then and now :
150
years after the Communist Manifesto
The
fate of marxism
Marxism
and the philosophy of science: a critical history
World
views
E-mail: helena.sheehan@dcu.ie
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