LONDON CELTIC PUNKS WEB-ZINE

  • “YOU’RE A ENGLISH BASTARD, YOU’RE A IRISH BASTARD”

    “You’re a English Bastard, You’re a Irish Bastard” is funny way to explain the situation of Irish folks born outside of Ireland. Stephen Gara, a friend, musician who plays in Neck, and who currently lives in the Hudson Valley was born in London to Irish parents. He told how the English referred to him as…

  • FILM REVIEW: BLACK ’47

    Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them… This famine may fairly be…

  • AN ARGUMENT THAT THE IRISH FAMINE WAS GENOCIDE

    With the release of Black 47, a movie about the ‘Great Potato Famine’ of Ireland in the 19th century out in the next week, we take a timely but controversial look at how the famine wasn’t a famine at all and the British government stood idly by and let millions of Irish die in what is…

  • RELEASE DATES FOR NEW MOVIE ABOUT THE IRISH HOLOCAUST- BLACK 47

    The land of song was no longer tuneful; or, if a human sound met the traveler’s ear, it was only that of a feeble and despairing wail for the dead. Black 47 Trailer & Clip Directed by: Lance Daly Written by: Lance Daly, P.J. Dillon, Eugene O’Brien and Pierce Ryan Starring: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan,  Moe Dunford, Sarah Greene and Jim Broadbent…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: DECLAN O’ROURKE- ‘Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine’ (2017)

    Declan O’Rourke delivers an amazing album of extraordinary true tales from the most tragic period in the history of Ireland. Fifteen years in the making he takes the best of traditional Irish music and the heart of modern song-writing for something truly special. Sometime around 1570 Spanish soldiers returned from their ‘adventures’ in South America with a tuberous…

  • 2017 LONDON MEMORIAL TO THE GREAT HUNGER

    On Sunday 14th May 2017, it will be 170 years since the beginning of An Gorta Mor (The Great Hunger) in Ireland. This year there will be a memorial event outside TUC Congress House. This location has been chosen because the Parish of St. Giles was the first recorded ‘Little Ireland’ in London. Many Irish people who lived…

  • LONDON MEMORIAL TO THE GREAT IRISH ‘FAMINE’ OF 1845- 1852

    On Sunday 22nd May there will be a memorial event in London to the Irish Famine which many refer to as a genocide! It will take place outside the main entrance of Congress House in Great Russell Street. Speakers invited will be on behalf of the Parvees (Irish Travellers) who owe their roots to this atrocity…

  • HOLOCAUST NOT A FAMINE- MAY 10TH NATIONAL FAMINE MEMORIAL DAY

    “For you stole Trevelyan’s corn So your young might see the morn, Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay” Today Sunday 10th May is National Famine Memorial Day. Pause for one minute on Commemoration Day, May 10, and spare a thought or a prayer for not just those poor souls lost at home…

  • MAY 10TH NATIONAL FAMINE MEMORIAL DAY

    Tomorrow Celtic Football Club take to the field against Dundee United and afterwards will collect the Premier League trophy with the National Famine Memorial Day logo on their shirts. Without a doubt the ‘famine’ transformed Ireland changing the island forever. The impact on the people and the legacy of emigration, loss and decline of the Irish…

Subscribe

Enter your email below to receive updates.