Films

• Angel
  Angel (1982 film)
  Angel is a 1982 film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Stephen Rea. The film was Neil Jordan's directorial debut, and the executive producer was John Boorman.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1982)
• Bloody Sunday (2002)
• Blown Away
  Blown Away (1994 film)
  Blown Away is a 1994 action film starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. It was directed by Stephen Hopkins.-Plot:Ryan Gaerity , an Irish terrorist, escapes from his cell in a castle prison in Northern Ireland....
  
  (1994)
• The Boxer
  The Boxer (film)
  The Boxer is a 1997 film by Irish director Jim Sheridan. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson, the film centers on the life of a boxer and former Provisional IRA Volunteer, Danny Flynn, played by Day-Lewis, who is trying to "go straight" after his release from prison...
  
  (1997)
• Breakfast on Pluto
  Breakfast on Pluto (film)
  Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
  
  (2005)
• Cal
  Cal (film)
  Cal is a 1984 British drama film directed by Pat O'Connor, and starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren. Based on the novella Cal written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script, the film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where Helen Mirren won the award for Best Actress.-Plot:Cal...
  
  (1984)
• Children in the Crossfire (1984)
• The Crying Game
  The Crying Game
  The Crying Game is a 1992 psychological thriller drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish Troubles...
  
  (1992)
• Dear Sarah
  Dear Sarah (film)
  Dear Sarah is a 1990 made-for-television film about Giuseppe Conlon who was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment after being implicated as one of the Maguire Seven during the 1970s. The film was produced by Raidió Teilifís Éireann, directed by Frank Cvitanovich and written by Tom McGurk...
  
  (1990)
• The Devil's Own
  The Devil's Own
  The Devil's Own is a 1997 action thriller movie starring Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Rubén Blades, Natascha McElhone, Julia Stiles and Treat Williams. It was the final film directed by Alan J...
  
  (1997)
• Elephant (Alan Clarke film)
  Elephant (Alan Clarke film)
  "Elephant" is a 1989 British drama film directed by Alan Clarke. The film is set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The film's title comes from Bernard MacLaverty's description of the Troubles as "the elephant in our living room" — a reference to the collective denial of the underlying social...
  
  (1989)
• An Everlasting Piece
  An Everlasting Piece
  An Everlasting Piece is a 2000 American comedy film. The movie was directed by Barry Levinson and written by and starring Barry McEvoy. The plot involves two wig salesmen, one Catholic and one Protestant, who live in war torn Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the mid-'80s...
  
  (2000)
• Fifty Dead Men Walking
  Fifty Dead Men Walking
  Fifty Dead Men Walking is a 2008 English-language crime thriller film written and directed by Kari Skogland. It is a loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name...
  
  (2008)
• Five Minutes of Heaven
  Five Minutes of Heaven
  Five Minutes of Heaven is a British/Irish film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a script by Guy Hibbert. The film was premiered on January 19, 2009 at the 25th Sundance Film Festival...
  
  (2009)
• The General
  The General (1998 film)
  The General is a British-Irish crime film directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s, and attracted the attention of the Gardaí, PIRA, and UVF. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998...
  
  (1998)
• H3
  H3 (film)
  H3 was a film released in 2001 about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, events leading up to it, and subsequent developments in the prisoners' struggle for Prisoner of War status...
  
  (2001)
• Harry's Game
  Harry's Game
  Harry's Game is a British television miniseries made by Yorkshire Television for ITV in 1982. It is based on the novel of the same name by Gerald Seymour, which was published in 1975.The three-part serial starred Ray Lonnen as Capt...
  
  (1982)
• Hidden Agenda
  Hidden Agenda (1990 film)
  Hidden Agenda , directed by Ken Loach, is a political thriller about British terrorism in Northern Ireland that includes the assassination of an American civil rights lawyer.-Plot and historical context:...
  
  (1990)
• Holy Cross (BBC Documentary)
  Holy Cross dispute
  The Holy Cross dispute occurred in 2001 and 2002 in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and involved an escalating dispute between on the one hand the pupils and parents of Holy Cross R.C. Primary School and on the other the residents of a loyalist area that lay on the route to the front...
  
  (2003)
• Hunger
  Hunger (2008 film)
  Hunger is a 2008 film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and Steve R. McQueen, who also directed. It was made by Blast! Films and commissioned by Channel 4 and Film4. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for...
  
  (2008)
• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• The Informant (1997)
• Johnny Was
  Johnny Was
  Johnny Was is an Irish/British gangster movie directed by Mark Hammond, written by Brendan Foley, and made in 2005 by Ben Katz Productions, Borderline Productions and Nordisk Film...
  
  (2006)
• The Long Good Friday
  The Long Good Friday
  The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film...
  
  (1980)
• Mickybo and Me
  Mickybo and Me
  Mickybo and Me is a 2004 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Terry Loane and based on the stage play Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty...
  
  (2004)
• My Brother's War (1998)
• Nothing Personal (1995)
• Omagh
  Omagh (film)
  Omagh was a film dramatising the events surrounding the Omagh bombing and its aftermath, co-produced by Irish state broadcaster RTÉ and UK network Channel 4, and directed by Pete Travis. It was first shown on television in both countries in June, 2004....
  
  (2004)
• Omagh the Legacy: Claire and Stephen's Story (1999)
• Patriot Games
  Patriot Games (film)
  Patriot Games is a 1992 film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on Tom Clancy's the novel of the same name. It is a sequel to the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October. In the movie, Jack Ryan is played by Harrison Ford, Jack's surgeon-wife, Dr...
  
  (1992)
• Patriots
  Patriots (film)
  - Cast :*Mathias Wieman as Peter Thomann - genannt Pierre*Lída Baarová as Thérèse - genannt Jou-Jou*Bruno Hübner as Jules Martin - Direktor eines Fronttheaters*Hilde Körber as Suzanne*Paul Dahlke as Charles*Nicolas Koline as Nikita*Kurt Seifert as Alphonse...
  
  (1998)
• A Prayer for the Dying
  A Prayer for the Dying
  A Prayer for the Dying is a 1987 thriller film about a former IRA member trying to escape his past. The film was directed by Mike Hodges, and stars Mickey Rourke, Liam Neeson, Bob Hoskins, and Alan Bates...
  
  (1987)
• The Railway Station Man
  The Railway Station Man
  The Railway Station Man is a 1992 British drama film directed by Michael Whyte and starring Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland and John Lynch. It was based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Irish writer Jennifer Johnston...
  
  (1993)
• Resurrection Man (1997)
• Ronin
  Ronin (film)
  Ronin is a 1998 action-thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and written by J.D. Zeik and David Mamet. It stars Robert De Niro and Jean Reno as two of several former special forces and intelligence agents who team up to steal a mysterious, heavily guarded suitcase while navigating a maze of...
  
  (1998)
• Some Mothers Son (1996)
• Sunday (2002)
• Titanic Town
  Titanic Town (film)
  Titanic Town is a 1998 film. Ciarán Hinds and Julie Walters play Aidan and Bernie McPhelimy, a mother and father caught in the Northern Ireland Troubles in Belfast . Bernie's close friend is killed in the crossfire and so she becomes involved in the peace process.-Their children:*Nuala O'Neill ......
  
  (1998)
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce , a Limerick-born poet and professor of English literature. The song is written from the perspective of a doomed young Wexford rebel who is about to sacrifice his relationship with his loved one and plunge into the...
  
  (2006)

Novels

• Joan Lingard
  Joan Lingard
  Joan Lingard is a Scottish novel writer.- Career :Lingard has written novels for both adults and children...
  
  's children's series: The Twelfth Day of July (1970), Across the Barricades (1972), Into Exile (1973), A Proper Place (1975), and Hostage to Fortune (1976)
• Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour
  Gerald Seymour
  Gerald Seymour is a British writer.-Life:The son of two literary figures, he was educated at Kelly College at Tavistock in Devon and took a BA Hons degree in Modern History at University College London...
  
   (1975)
• A Breed of Heroes
  A Breed of Heroes
  A Breed of Heroes is a 1981 novel by Alan Judd. It narrates in third person the experiences of a young British Army officer as he is deployed on his first tour of duty, a four month operation in Armagh and Belfast at the height of The Troubles....
  
  by Alan Judd
  Alan Judd
  Alan Judd aka Alan Petty is a former soldier and diplomat who now works as a security analyst and writer in the United Kingdom. He writes both books and articles, regularly contributing to a number of publications, including The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator...
  
  
• Cal
  Cal (novel)
  Cal is a 1983 novel by Bernard MacLaverty, detailing the experiences of a young Irish Catholic involved with the IRA.-Plot summary:One of the major themes of the novel is the way in which the title character attempts to come to terms with taking part in the murder of a reserve police officer by his...
  
  by Bernard MacLaverty
  Bernard MacLaverty
  Bernard MacLaverty is a writer of fiction. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 14 September 1942, and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children...
  
   (1983)
• Maura's Angel by Lynne Reid Banks (1984)
• Ourselves Alone by Anne Devlin (1985)
• Patriot Games
  Patriot Games
  Patriot Games is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is chronologically the first book focusing on CIA analyst Jack Ryan, the main character in almost all of Clancy's novels. It is the indirect sequel to Without Remorse...
  
  by Tom Clancy
  Tom Clancy
  Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. is an American author, best known for his technically detailed espionage, military science, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, along with video games on which he did not work, but which bear his name for licensing and...
  
   (1987)
• Divorcing Jack
  Divorcing Jack (novel)
  Divorcing Jack is a 1995 novel by Colin Bateman.Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the novel's events follow a turbulent period in the life of married, cynical and usually drunk journalist Dan Starkey. Dan's wife Patricia leaves him after a drunken party in which he kisses student Margaret...
  
  by Colin Bateman
  Colin Bateman
  Colin Bateman is a novelist, screenwriter and former journalist from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.Born in 1962, Bateman attended Bangor Grammar School leaving at 16 to join the County Down Spectator as a "cub" reporter, then columnist and deputy editor...
  
   (1994)
• Cycle of Violence by Colin Bateman
  Colin Bateman
  Colin Bateman is a novelist, screenwriter and former journalist from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.Born in 1962, Bateman attended Bangor Grammar School leaving at 16 to join the County Down Spectator as a "cub" reporter, then columnist and deputy editor...
  
   (1995)
• Belfast Diaries: War as a Way of Life by John Conroy (1995)
• Drink with the Devil by Jack Higgins
  Jack Higgins
  Jack Higgins is the principal pseudonym of UK novelist Harry Patterson. Patterson is the author of more than 60 novels. As Higgins, most have been thrillers of various types and, since his breakthrough novel The Eagle Has Landed in 1975, nearly all have been bestsellers...
  
   (1996)
• Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
  Robert McLiam Wilson
  Robert McLiam Wilson is a Northern Irish novelist. He attended St Malachy's College and studied at University of Cambridge; however, he dropped out and, for a short time, was homeless. This period of his life profoundly affected his later life and influenced his works...
  
   (1996)
• Fifty Dead Men Walking by Martin McGartland
  Martin McGartland
  Martin McGartland is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army informer who joined the organisation in order to pass information to British security forces. When he was exposed as an informer in 1991, he escaped from IRA custody and was resettled in England. His identity became known after a...
  
   (1997)
• Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe (1998)
• The Bombmaker by Stephen Leather
  Stephen Leather
  Stephen Leather is an English thriller author who writes pacy "action packed" novels in a style deliberately based upon the work of Jack Higgins and Gerald Seymour. His novels frequently include themes of crime, imprisonment and military service, and lately terrorism and the War on Terror. Settings...
  
   (1999)
• The Marching Season by Daniel Silva (1999)
• Mohammed Maguire by Colin Bateman
  Colin Bateman
  Colin Bateman is a novelist, screenwriter and former journalist from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.Born in 1962, Bateman attended Bangor Grammar School leaving at 16 to join the County Down Spectator as a "cub" reporter, then columnist and deputy editor...
  
   (2001)
• No Bones by Anna Burns
  Anna Burns
  Anna Burns is an Irish author. She was born in Belfast and moved to London in 1987. Her first novel, No Bones, is an account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles.-Awards:*Winner of the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize...
  
   (2001)
• Rogue Element by Terence Strong (1997).
• Stand by Stand by by Chris Ryan
• Trinity
• Watchman by Ian Rankin
  Ian Rankin
  Ian Rankin, OBE, DL , is a Scottish crime writer. His best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels. He has also written several pieces of literary criticism.-Background:He attended Beath High School, Cowdenbeath...
  
   (1988)
• The Watchman by Chris Ryan (2001)

Instrumental compositions

• "Lest we forget" by Robert Candeloro (2006)
• "The Seeming Insanity of Forgiveness" by Dr Thomas Fitzgerald (composer)
  Thomas Fitzgerald (composer)
  Dr Thomas Fitzgerald is an Australian Composer, Musical Director, Conductor and Musician.Thomas Fitzgerald completed his Doctoral Thesis in Composition at the University of Wollongong in 2005. He also holds a Master of Music and Bachelor of Music from Melbourne University...
  
   (2002)

Songs

• "Armalite Rifle" by Gang of Four
  Gang of Four
  The Gang of Four was the name given to a political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution and were subsequently charged with a series of treasonous crimes...
  
  
• "Alternative Ulster" by Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...
  
  
• "Armagh" by Au Pairs
  Au Pairs (band)
  The Au Pairs were a British post-punk band that formed in Birmingham in 1979. Music historian Gillian G. Gaar noted in her history of women in rock that the band mingled male and female musicians in a revolutionary collaborative way, as part of its outspoken explorations of sexual...
  
  
• "Belfast" by Boney M
  Boney M
  Boney M. is a Eurodisco group created by German record producer Frank Farian. Originally based in Germany, the four original members of the group's official line-up were Jamaicans Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams from Montserrat and Bobby Farrell from Aruba...
  
  
• "Belfast" by Orbital
  Orbital (band)
  Orbital are a British electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, England consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Their career initially ran from 1989 until 2004, but in 2009 they announced that they would be reforming and headlining The Big Chill, in addition to a number of other live shows...
  
  
• "Belfast" by Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
  
• "Belfast Child" by Simple Minds
  Simple Minds
  Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band who achieved worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s and best known for their #1 US, Canada and Netherlands hit single "Don't You ", from the soundtrack of the...
  
  
• "Belfast (Penguins and Cats)" by Katie Melua
  Katie Melua
  Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British-Georgian singer, songwriter and musician. She moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then to England at fourteen. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of composer Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003...
  
  
• "Belfast to Boston (God's Rifle)" by James Taylor
  James Taylor
  James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
  
  
• "Big Decision" by That Petrol Emotion
  That Petrol Emotion
  That Petrol Emotion are a Northern Irish, London-based band with an American vocalist, Steve Mack.-Career:The band originally formed in 1984 from the ashes of the Derry Hitmakers, Bam Bam and the Calling and The Undertones. It was formed by guitarist John O'Neill and second guitarist Raymond Gorman...
  
  
• "Broken Land" by The Adventures
  The Adventures
  The Adventures are a Northern Irish Rock group, formed in Belfast in 1984.The band later moved to London where they signed to Chrysalis Records and released their first single in 1984. Following their debut album release a year later the group moved to Elektra Records and scored their biggest hit,...
  
  
• "Crimson Days" by Silent Running
  Silent Running
  Silent Running is a 1972 environmentally themed science fiction film starring Bruce Dern and directed by Douglas Trumbull, who had previously worked as a special effects supervisor on such science fiction films as 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Andromeda Strain.-Plot summary:Silent Running depicts a...
  
  
• "Don't forget about us" by Paul J Miles (2008)
• "Drunken Lullabies" by Flogging Molly
  Flogging Molly
  Flogging Molly is a seven-piece Irish-descendant band from Los Angeles, California, that is currently signed to their own record label, Borstal Beat Records.-Early years:...
  
  
• "Each Dollar a Bullet" by Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...
  
  
• "Ether" by Gang Of Four
  Gang of Four (band)
  Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill...
  
  
• "Fly the Flag" by Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...
  
  
• "Forgotten Sons" by Marillion
  Marillion
  Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, England in 1979. Their recorded studio output comprises sixteen albums generally regarded in two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988, and the subsequent arrival of replacement Steve...
  
  
• "Give Ireland Back to the Irish
  Give Ireland Back to the Irish
  "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is a Paul and Linda McCartney song written in response to the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland on 30 January 1972...
  
  " by Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
  
  
• "Go on Home British Soldiers by Tommy Skelly
• "God Kicks", "Potato Junkie" and "Church of Noise" by Therapy?
  Therapy?
  Therapy? is an alternative metal band from Northern Ireland. The band was formed in 1989 by guitarist–vocalist Andy Cairns from Ballyclare and drummer-vocalist Fyfe Ewing from Larne, Northern Ireland. The band initially recorded their first demo with Cairns filling in on bass guitar...
  
  
• "Hang the IRA" by Skullhead
  Skullhead
  Skullhead was a 1980s English Rock Against Communism band from the Newcastle area. Along with Brutal Attack, Skrewdriver and No Remorse, they are one of the most notable bands of that genre. Led by Kevin Turner, they started out as an Oi!-style band and then adopted elements from heavy metal...
  
  
• "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
  Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
  "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" is the opening track of heavy metal band Megadeth's 1990 album Rust in Peace.The song has an unusual structure, shifting at 2:26 after an acoustic bridge by Marty Friedman to a different, slower and heavier section called "The Punishment Due", before speeding up...
  
  " by Megadeth
  Megadeth
  Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
  
  
• "The House of Orange
  The House of Orange (song)
  The House of Orange is a Stan Rogers song about The Troubles, in particular about fundraising for the Irish Republican extremists in Canada. The overall sentiment of the song is the IRA is terrorizing not just the British, but also Catholics in Northern Ireland...
  
  " by Stan Rogers
  Stan Rogers
  Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his finely crafted, traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and the daily lives of working people, especially those from the fishing...
  
   on From Fresh Water
  From Fresh Water
  From Fresh Water is a 1984 album by Stan Rogers. It was one of a series of concept albums Rogers intended to do about the regions of Canada...
  
  
• "Invisible Sun
  Invisible Sun
  "Invisible Sun" is a hit single by rock group The Police, released in September 1981. The song's lyrics stem from songwriter Sting's pondering how people living in war-torn and/or impoverished countries find the will to go on living, and despite the dark music and often morbid lyrical statements,...
  
  " by The Police
  The Police
  The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For the vast majority of their history, the band consisted of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland...
  
  
• "It's Going To Happen" by The Undertones
  The Undertones
  The Undertones are a punk rock/new wave band formed in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1975.The original line-up of the Undertones released thirteen singles and four studio albums — The Undertones , Hypnotised , Positive Touch and The Sin of Pride — before disbanding in July 1983.Music guide Allmusic...
  
  
• "It's Only Tuesday" by Eric Bogle
  Eric Bogle
  Eric Bogle is a folk singer-songwriter. He emigrated to Australia in 1969 and currently resides near Adelaide, South Australia.-Career:...
  
  
• "Last Night Another Soldier", "Brighton Bomb" and "Soldier" by The Angelic Upstarts
• "Letter from Louise" by The Saw Doctors
  The Saw Doctors
  The Saw Doctors are an Irish rock band. Formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway, they have achieved eighteen Top 30 singles in Ireland, including three number ones. Their first number one, "I Useta Lover," topped the Irish charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1990, and still holds the record for the...
  
  
• "My Little ArmaLite
  Little Armalite
  "Little Armalite", "My Little Armalite" or "Me Little Armalite" is an Irish Republican song that praises the Armalite rifle which was used by republican paramilitaries against the British security forces in Northern Ireland....
  
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• "Northern Industrial Town" by Billy Bragg
  Billy Bragg
  Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
  
  
• "Oliver's Army
  Oliver's Army
  "Oliver's Army" is a song written by Elvis Costello, originally performed by Elvis Costello and the Attractions and appearing on the album Armed Forces in 1979. It remains his most successful single, spending four weeks at Nº2 in the UK singles chart....
  
  " by Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
  
  
• "Pie Jesu" by Andrew Lloyd Webber
  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
  
  
• "What's Left of the Flag" by Flogging Molly
  Flogging Molly
  Flogging Molly is a seven-piece Irish-descendant band from Los Angeles, California, that is currently signed to their own record label, Borstal Beat Records.-Early years:...
  
  
• "Sean O'Farrell" by The Celibate Rifles
  The Celibate Rifles
  The Celibate Rifles are a punk rock band from Sydney, Australia.The band was formed in 1979 and released their first album Sideroxylon in April 1983 on the Hot Records label...
  
  
• "Shankill Butchers" by The Decemberists
  The Decemberists
  The Decemberists are an indie folk rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy. The other members of the band are Chris Funk , Jenny Conlee , Nate Query , and John Moen .The band's...
  
  
• "Smash the IRA" by Skrewdriver
  Skrewdriver
  Skrewdriver was an English punk rock band formed by Ian Stuart Donaldson in Poulton-le-Fylde in 1976. They later evolved into one of the first neo-Nazi rock bands, playing a leading role in the Rock Against Communism movement and becoming known as the most prominent white power skinhead...
  
  
• "Soldier" by Harvey Andrews
  Harvey Andrews
  Harvey John Andrews is an English singer, songwriter, and poet.-Career:From 1964, Andrews supported his nascent career as a singer/songwriter by working as a schoolteacher, before becoming a full-time professional musician in 1966.Harvey Andrews has produced 17 successful albums singing his own...
  
  
• "Some Time in New York City
  Some Time in New York City
  Some Time in New York City was released in 1972 and is John Lennon's third post-Beatles album, fifth with Yoko Ono, and third with producer Phil Spector...
  
  " and The Luck of the Irish by John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
   and Yoko Ono
  Yoko Ono
  is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
  
  
• "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
  Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six
  "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" is a political song by the Irish folk punk band The Pogues, written by Terry Woods and Shane MacGowan and included on the band's 1988 album If I Should Fall from Grace with God....
  
  " by The Pogues
  The Pogues
  The Pogues are a Celtic punk band, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before...
  
  
• "Sunday Bloody Sunday
  Sunday Bloody Sunday (song)
  "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is the opening track from U2's 1983 album, War. The song was released as the album's third single on 11 March 1983 in Germany and the Netherlands. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is noted for its militaristic drumbeat, harsh guitar, and melodic harmonies...
  
  ", "Please
  Please (U2 song)
  "Please" is the eleventh song from U2's 1997 album, Pop. It was released as the album's fourth single on 20 October 1997.As with "Sunday Bloody Sunday", the song is about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The single cover for this song features the pictures of four Northern Irish politicians —...
  
  ", "Peace on Earth
  Peace on Earth (U2 song)
  "Peace on Earth" is a song by rock band U2 and the eighth track on their 2000 album All That You Can't Leave Behind. Its lyrics were inspired by the Real IRA Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland on 15 August 1998....
  
  " and "North and South of The River" by U2
  U2
  U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
  
  
• "Sunrise
  Sunrise
  Sunrise is the instant at which the upper edge of the Sun appears above the horizon in the east. Sunrise should not be confused with dawn, which is the point at which the sky begins to lighten, some time before the sun itself appears, ending twilight...
  
  " by The Divine Comedy
  The Divine Comedy
  The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature...
  
  
• "Ten Men Dead" by Blaggers ITA
• "That's Just the Way It Is
  That's Just the Way It Is
  "That's Just the Way It Is" is a single performed by Phil Collins and David Crosby that was released in 1990 from the album ...But Seriously. The song was only released as a single in Europe, while "Do You Remember?" was instead released in the United States...
  
  " by Phil Collins
  Phil Collins
  Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
  
  
• "The Greening of Belfast" by Michael Card
  Michael Card
  Michael Card is an American Christian singer-songwriter, musician, author, and radio host from Franklin, Tennessee. He is best known for his contributions in Contemporary Christian Music, which couple folk-style melodies and instrumentation with lyrics that stem from intensive study of the Bible...
  
  
• "The Island" by Paul Brady
  Paul Brady
  Paul Joseph Brady is an Irish singer-songwriter, whose work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age...
  
  
• "The Men Behind the Wire" by Barleycorn
• "The More I See (The Less I Believe)" by Fun Boy Three
  Fun Boy Three
  Fun Boy Three were a short-lived but successful English New Wave Pop band which ran from 1981 to 1983 and was formed by singers Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding after they left The Specials.-History:...
  
  
• "There Were Roses" by Tommy Sands
  Tommy Sands (Irish folk singer)
  Tommy Sands , Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, is a folk singer, song writer, radio broadcaster, and political activist. He performs with his 3 siblings as The Sands Family; solo as Tommy Sands; and with his son and daughter as Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands...
  
  
• "The Town I Loved So Well" by Phil Coulter
  Phil Coulter
  Phil Coulter is an artist with an international reputation as a successful songwriter, pianist, music producer, arranger and director. His success has spanned four decades and he is one of the biggest record sellers in Ireland...
  
  
• "The Troubles" by The Roches
  The Roches
  The Roches are a female vocal group of three songwriting Irish-American sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey, known for their "unusual" and "rich" harmonies, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances.The Roches have been active as performers and recording artists since the mid-1970s,...
  
  
• "The Troubles" by XTC
  XTC
  XTC were a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. The band enjoyed some chart success, including the UK and Canadian hits "Making Plans for Nigel" and "Senses Working Overtime" , but are perhaps even better known for their long-standing critical success.- Early years:...
  
  
• "Theme from Harry's Game
  Theme from Harry's Game
  "Theme from Harry's Game" or just "Harry's Game" is a BAFTA-nominated hit song by Irish group Clannad, written by Pól Brennan. It was released in 1982 and served as the main track from their album Magical Ring...
  
  " by Clannad
  Clannad
  Clannad are an Irish musical group, from Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal. Their music has been variously described as bordering on folk and folk rock, Irish, Celtic and New Age, often incorporating elements of an even broader spectrum of smooth jazz and Gregorian chant...
  
  
• "This Is a Rebel Song" by Sinéad O'Connor
  Sinéad O'Connor
  Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....
  
  
• "Through the barricades" by Spandau Ballet
  Spandau Ballet
  Spandau Ballet are a British band formed in London in the late 1970s. Initially inspired by, and an integral part of, the New Romantic fashion, their music has featured a mixture of funk, jazz, soul and synthpop. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s, achieving ten Top Ten singles...
  
  
• "Ulster" by Sham 69
  Sham 69
  Sham 69 is an English punk band that formed in Hersham in 1976.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres. The band allegedly derived...
  
  
• "White Noise" by Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...
  
  
• "Zombie
  Zombie (song)
  "Zombie" is a protest song by the Irish band The Cranberries from the 1994 album No Need to Argue. The song, which laments The Troubles in Northern Ireland and in particular the killing of two children in an IRA bombing in Warrington, England, was written by Dolores O'Riordan, singer of the band...
  
  " by The Cranberries
  The Cranberries
  The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989 under the name The Cranberry Saw Us, later changed by vocalist Dolores O'Riordan. The band currently consists of O'Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler...
  
  

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