Smash Internment - Live Recording In Long Kesh - Irish Rebel - Republican - 1972
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Smash Internment - Live Recording In Long Kesh - 1972
SIDE 1
01. THOUGHTS OF SOLITUDE 02. FREE THE PEOPLE - THE JOLLY TINKERMEN 03. THE PATRIOT GAME - JOHN MGEARY 04. O RO SE DO BHEATHA - THE INTERNEES 05. INSTRUMENTAL SELECTION - LOUGHRAN SISTERS 06. TONES GRAVE - PHILOMENA BEGLEY 07. EASTERS PROPHECY - SEAMUS BRADLEY
SIDE 2
01. MILTOWN MALBAY - FR. BARNEY MCALEER 02. BRIGHT SILVERY LIGHT - FR. BARNEY MCALEER 03. MEDLEY - THE LYNCH FAMILY 04. BIDDY MCGRA - CONOR PATRICK 05. WE SHALL OVERCOME - THE INTERNEES 06. 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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