Smash Internment - Live Recording In Long Kesh - Irish - Rebel
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Smash Internment And Injustice - Live Recording In Long Kesh
1972
R & O Records - ROL 3002
Sleeve - VG - EX Vinyl - VG
Track Listing :
Side One
Thoughts of Solitude
Free The People - The Jolly Tinkermen.
The Patriot Game - John McGeary
O Ro Se Do Bheatha - The Internees
Instrumental Selection - Loughran Sisters
Tones Grave - Philomena Begley
Easters Prophecy - Seamus Bradley
Side Two
Miltown Malbay - Father Barney McAleer
Bright Silvery Light - Father Barney McAleer
Medley - The Lynch Family
Biddy McGra - Conor Patrick
We Shall Overcome - The Internees
The Boys of the Old Brigade - The Internees
This record has been made from tapes, which were recorded and smuggled out of "Long Kesh" Britain's largest interment camp in Northern Ireland.
The Artistes are among the best in Ireland. Not only that but week after week they have given their services free in order to raise funds to help the dependants of those so unjustly imprisoned.
The Concert took place in a corrugated iron hut. The 'captive' audience numbered over one hundred. At the time of the recording they had already been interned for some months but their wonderful spirit—that unconquered and unconquerable spirit of the Irish people— can be heard in their laughter, in their applause and in their magnificent rendering of "The Boys of The Old Brigade"—the Internees Anthem. It is this spirit prevailing through the recording which makes this record unique.
Now lean back, close your eyes, picture in your mind a 'nissen' hut packed with some of Ireland's finest sons—as young as 17—as old as 75. This was the first break in their solitude. The Artistes are welcomed with such fervour. The atmosphere is electric with emotion—for Artistes as well as audience. The concert begins…
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