The People's Own MP
The People's Own MP is an Irish rebel song about Bobby Sands, one of the Irish hunger strikers.
The song was written by Bruce Scott and recorded by Christy Moore on the latter's 1984 EP Back Home in Derry and his 1986 album, The Spirit of Freedom. It has been described as an example of the "hero-martyr" genre of rebel music in which the "intellectual, artistic and moral qualities" of the subject are eulogised beyond courage.[1]
References
- ^ Boyle, Mark. Edifying the Rebellious Gael, in Celtic Geographies: Old Culture, New Times (David Harvey, ed). Routledge, 2002. p 190. ISBN 0-415-22396-2
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Irish rebel songs
- The Wind that Shakes the Barley
- The Rising of the Moon
- Kelly from Killanne
- Boolavogue
- The Wearing of the Green
- The Croppy Boy
- The Boys of Wexford
- Come All You Warriors
- Tone's Grave
- Amhrán na bhFiann
- Come Out, Ye Black and Tans
- The Foggy Dew
- Down by the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men)
- The Boys of the Old Brigade
- The Valley of Knockanure
- Tri-Colored Ribbon
- The Broad Black Brimmer
- Rifles of the IRA
- Who Is Ireland's Enemy?
- Man from the Daily Mail
- Grand Old Dame Britannia
- Erin Go Bragh
- Kevin Barry
- Johnston's Motor Car
- Pat of Mullingar
- Banna Strand
- Dying Rebel
- Take It Down from the Mast
- The Patriot Game
- Sean South from Garryowen
- The Men Behind the Wire
- The Ballad of Joe McDonnell
- Only Our Rivers Run Free
- The People's Own MP
- Little Armalite
- Roll of Honour
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