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Alternative Ulster

Sep 7, 2026 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Lizbot

✽✽ Laborwave Special! ✽✽

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER! with DJ Lizbot

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER: Songs of Irish Rebellion from Fenians to Kneecap - A deep dive into the history of Irish protest songs from the Rapparee and Easter Uprising through The Troubles Trad-Revival and Ulster Punk & Beyond

1:03 PM		The Dubliners The Rocky Road to Dublin (Live) The Dubliners (Live) [Bonus Track Edition] Castle Communications 1964
1:05 PM		The Clancy Brothers Brennan on the Moor The Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem Tradition Records 1961
1:07 PM		Derek Warfield Get Out Ye Black and Tans Derek Warfield Live Alive-Oh Triskel 1980 Taunting song, mocking the Black & Tans (the British soldiers), for their wins with all the backing of the English government
1:10 PM		The Dubliners A Nation Once Again More of the Hard Stuff Major Minor 1967
1:13 PM		The Wolfe Tones Rifles of the I.R.A. Rifles Of The I.R.A. Shanachie 1969
1:17 PM		Pecker Dunne McAlpine's Fusiliers Dominic Behan The Tinkerman Sharpe Music 1987 written by Dominic Behan, brother of famous Irish poet and playwright Brendan Behan!
1:22 PM		The Dubliners Black Velvet Band Black Velvet Band / Maloney Wants A Drink Major Minor 1967 Traditional folk song collected from singers in Ireland describing how a young man is tricked and then sentenced to transportation to Australia, a common punishment in the British Empire during the 19th century. Versions were also published on broadsides.
1:25 PM		Dublin City Ramblers The Bold Fenian Men Dublin City Ramblers Hallmark 1980
1:29 PM		The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem Patriot Game Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem Fairway Records 1977
1:32 PM		Paddy Reilly The Town I Loved So Well Paddy Reilly The Town I Loved so Well Paddy Reilly 1975 Paddy Reilly's The Town I Loved So Well is basically the unofficial Anthem of Derry, especially the embattled Bogside neighborhood, which is where the Battle of the Bogside happened, August 1969, kicking off the era of Irish history we call "The Troubles". When I was in Derry visiting my grandmom's old house in August 2019, I show up at the Bogside and there is a band playing this song loudly on a stage set up right in front of the YOU ARE NOW ENTERING FREE DERRY mural.
1:38 PM		Barleycorn The Men Behind the Wire The Men Behind the Wire / Freedom Walk CRC 1971
1:41 PM		The Dubliners Viva la Quinta Brigada Christy Moore Viva la Quinta Brigada About the 15th International Brigade of Irish volunteers who fought against Fascists in the Spanish Civil War, despite the Vatican coming out in support of Franco's fascist dictatorship
1:47 PM		The Chieftains & Sinéad O'Connor The Foggy Dew The Long Black Veil RCA Victor 1995 About the Easter Uprising 1916 execution of 16 rebels by firing squad early Easter morning following the Easter Rebellion, an armed insurrection in Ireland in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic. The nature of the executions, and subsequent political developments, ultimately contributed to an increase in popular support for Irish independence.
1:50 PM		The Pogues Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six If I Should Fall From Grace With God Stiff Records 1988
1:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:05 PM		Stiff Little Fingers Alternative Ulster Inflammable Material Rough Trade 1979
2:09 PM		The Undertones My Perfect Cousin My Perfect Cousin - EP Union Square Music 1979
2:11 PM		The Undertones Jump Boys The Undertones 1979
2:14 PM		Rudi Big Time 7" Good Vibrations 1978 Punk rock/power pop band from Belfast formed in 1975 whose first single, Big Time, was released on Terri Hooley's famous "Good Vibrations" label, which operated out of the Good Vibrations Record Store on on Great Victoria Street, Belfast, the center of DIY punk culture and resistance in the 70s and 80s
2:18 PM		The Undertones Get Over You Feargal Sharkey Get Over You - EP 1979
2:19 PM		The Outcasts Justa Nother Teenage Rebel Justa Nother Teenage Rebel / Love Is For Sops Good Vibrations Records 1978
2:22 PM		Rudi Overcome By Fumes Battle of the Bands V/A Good Vibrations 1978
2:26 PM		Rudi Crimson Crimson 7" Jamming! Records 1982
2:28 PM		The Undertones Wednesday Week Wednesday Week / Told You So Sire 1980
2:30 PM		Blaze X Rippy Some Hope Fixed Wheel 1979 rish punk band from Tuam, active 1979-1981. Singer-guitarist Davy Carton would later go on to form the Saw Doctors.
2:32 PM		Stiff Little Fingers Tin Soldiers Nobody's Hero / Tin Soldiers Chrysalis 1980
2:37 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:42 PM		Blaze X Some Hope Some Hope Fixed Wheel 1979
2:45 PM		Stiff Little Fingers Suspect Device Inflammable Material Rough Trade 1979
2:48 PM		Roses Are Red Your Love Is Like A Ballistic Missile Can't Understand / Your Love Is Like A Ballistic Missile Sing Sing 1979
2:50 PM		Clive Culbertson Time To Kill Time To Kill / Busy Signal Rip Off Records 1979
2:54 PM		Elvis Costello Oliver's Army Declan Patrick MacManus Armed Forces Radar Records 1979 About Oliver Cromwell, who led a brutal military campaign and conquest in Ireland from 1649 to 1650 to crush Catholic resistance and secure the English Commonwealth, and founded the "modern" English army, who went on to invade and colonize all over the globe. The "Murder Mile" in the song refers to an infamous stretch of violent conflict in Belfast
2:56 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:57 PM		Kneecap Ceasefire Babies Ceasefire Babies Heavenly
2:58 PM		Kneecap Smugglers & Scholars FENIAN Heavenly Recordings 2026

Chat is archived.

Greetings!

LIZ IS…here!

++ Alternative Ulster!

Wow, I’ll be sipping soon

This folklorist loves this!

Hi Number 6!

My peoples

Hi dan Cochrane!

Lizbot on a Monday! What a holiday

Hi DJ Esoterica!

Hi Zach!

My dad was a teachers union leader/folksinger in the 60s and knew all these old protest songs.

Hi yourself, all others, er…I smell Irish Spring. Sorry

@dan Cochrane - Oh I can tell, a Cochrane!

@DJ Esoterica - SAME! haha, my dad was teachers union and deeply into irish protest songs. Took me to a lot of concerts!

I love the "YARRRs" in Brennan on the Moor!

This close to snotty punk rockers

Same same! That’d would have been cool if they’d met each other!

@Dan Cochrane - For real! And definitely informed The Pogues' sensabilities!

@DJ Esoterica - Yes! I grew up with all those "Sing Out" magazines, the whole Shanachie catalog, knew all these lyrics!

I love the band in “Local Hero” film! Half the reason to rewatch it.

Lizbot!! This is a perfect set for my final packing prep to my transatlantic voyage to the Gaeltacht! Dia Duit!!!!

wow tuning in to a record number of lizbot shows in recent days

This is wonderful. Thank you Lizbot

@Dan Cochrane - OMG, I literally JUST rewatched Local Hero 3 nights ago!! LOVE that film! Love the Ceilidh scene! the music was great!

Hi DJ Readie!

Hi Stephen Bluhm!

HI Brian D! Thanks!

hi liz https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GhUxoyhdeG4/maxresdefault.jpg

Hi Ossy!

@DJ Readie - NICE! I cant wait to hear about ye trip!

They always look like an Irish version of The Feelies to me.

@DJ Readie - Say hello to The Old Sod and Biddy Biddy N'og from me!

and hi readie rainbow/ dr sammi

@Stephen Bluhm - haha, YES! I've been busy!

Happy Labor Day, all!

Hi Steve Volaric! Happy Labor Day!

LONG story, but my granddad wound up working hard labor for McAlpine! They used Irish to build the highways in England and sent them back without pay!

Perhaps Derek Warfield & the Young Wolfe Tones will play Mt Holly St Pats again-they've been past few yrs.

ar ndóigh, Lizbot!

☘️🇮🇪❤️🚢

Hey Ossy!

Literally blood on the tracks

Hi Amy Lee!

@Lizbot -THAT is a story that deserves to be heard.

@AMy Lee - Oh wow, I'd see that! Didn't realize they came to Mt Holly! A show my dad would've seen were he still with us!

@Amy Lee - How long ago??

To the land of me ancestors I go! This is getting me so psyched!!!

@dan Cochrane - For real. They WOULD "throw you back behind the big mixer" rather than pay you, but these guys were banned from working in the shipyards, so they had very few choices, hence they became "long-distance men," shipped to England for hard labor

@DJ Readie - YAY! Hattie always sings this song with me!

Awesome, Lizbot!!! Passing on the legacy!!! 💚💚💚

@Ossy - Cute Bulbasaur /Tara photo!

@DJ Readie - Hattie & I sang a bunch of these songs at my dad's wake and it was restorative to us

interesting the place like mt holly annually has some irish festival every september season. also heard of some medieval irish party event via 6abc philly news, i think somewhere in fairmount or something

This show is banging Lizbot! I feel like I should be listening to this in an Irish pub like Fergie's or Plough and Stars. Please revisit something like this again next March.

Hi iConJohn!

My grandpa Jack Cochrane was a brick layer, he’d smoke his cigar down to a nub, then stick that in his pipe. 🤦‍♂️

So beautiful! Music- the healing force! All blessings to your Da, Lizbot!

liz - tara is ubiquitous all around pokemon, looking at her quirky white teeth smile lol

@Lizbot. They've played at least the past three years.

@iConJohn - THanks! FOr sure, I have in the past, but not in recent St. Pat's. IN the past i've done more instrumental trad on St. Pat's, like Bothy Band instros and Chieftains, Planxty etc. Fergus Carey of Fergie's was my neighbor in Center CIty back in the early 2000s! I used to attend his block parties,. The beer was FLOWING

@dan Cochrane - haha, I can still smell my uncle's cigar smoke! that is a potent fragrance that never leaves me!

@Amy Lee - Oh wow! Good to know! My mom still lives very close to there, I'll have to go with her!

The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem appeared on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest public television show, from the mid-60s, which used to re-air on PBS when I was a kid

I usu find out about events after the fact-this'll help: https://sjceltic.org/events.php

Radio ON!

Hi Jon Solomon!

@Amy Lee - Thanks!

Paddy Reilly's The Town I Loved So Well is basically the unofficial Anthem of Derry, especially the embattled Bogside neighborhood, which is where the Battle of the Bogside happened, August 1969, kicking off the era of Irish history we call "The Troubles"

When I was in Derry visiting my grandmom's old house in August 2019, I show up at the Bogside and there is a band playing this song loudly on a stage set up right in front of the YOU ARE NOW ENTERING FREE DERRY mural. Chills!

💚

The Vatican officially supported Franco's fascist dictatorship during the Spanish Civil War, insanely, largely because Franco was a devout Catholic. The 15th Brigade were Irish freedom fighter volunteers who defied The Pope and traveled to Spain to fight with the Spanish resistance

Sounding fantastic, LizBot! I'm feeling all the feelings as I listened to The Town I Loved So Well. ☘️ And your stories and reminisces are priceless.

Hi Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊!

@Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊 - oh, i know. That song kills me. My dad played that album a lot. Took us to see Christy Moore sing it live

Viva la Quinta Brigada! Great Christy Moore song

Hi Readie the Most Righteous 🌈 📚, Jon Solomon, Amy Lee, Ossy, Dan, Steve, Brian D & all

& Number 6, Zach, & Esoterica!

Christine! ☘️🌈❣️

Hi Christine!

Hey hey!

@Brian D - Yes! I still can sing all of his Lisdoonvarna! Meet Willy Daly the matchmaker the songs sings about in Lisdoonvarna in 2019. This hand-written matchmaking book goes back nearly 300 years! Passed down through his family

2 greats from a great Pogues lp.

@Brian D - YES!

Pogues !!☘️

Heard mom's cassette with Christy's Lisdoonvarna just about every weekend in the 80s. Love his lilt and rhythm. Soothing voice Christy. He is a treasure.

Thanks for adding Sinéad‘s name to the Chiefrains track!!!

Sinéad 💚💚💚

hi christine!

Punk time oh yeah

Hi TAndy!

@Brian D - haha, same. My dad adored Christy Moore, thus I knew what a "mickey-dodger" was from an early age, and other colorful names for nuns!

Hey Liz! Happy Laborwave everyone

@DJ Readie - Sinead's version is so achingly beautiful. RIP queen. She always got dragged through the mud

@TAndy - Glad you're enjoying it!

So true, Liz! The Queen. I’m learning her spirited version of Oro Se do bheatha bhaila in Gailge to celebrate her, the call to action.

My dad was a teacher, involved in the NJEA union back in the day although we lived in PA he taught Spanish in Jerz for 2-3 decades. He also had many run-ins with the nuns in the 1930s - 1940s. Then he had enough of that and he and mom did not really get into any kind of religion. Dad's ancestors way back were from County Carlow (a big hall or house or commons ...not quite a castle has our surname on it there). Mom did not have Irish ancestors but LOVES the music and dancing from Ireland.

If anyone wants more info or just a very entertaining movie about Northern Irish punk origins, watch the 2013 movie Good Vibrations, a biopic pf Terri Hooley, the founder of Good Vibrations label and record store, who put out all these early punk singles and was the heart of the punk scene there

Read Green Suede Shoes the autobio of Larry Kirwan, leader of the band Black 47. Nice guy, met him once when a band I was in opened up for them at John & Peter's back 25 yrs ago or so. Never got into them but that night was a special one. He and band delivered. His stories in his book great as well. He was & maybe still doing tours of Ireland. Would love to have him as a host/tourguide.

Cool, Brian! I’ll keep Larry K. on my radar when I’m over there

@DJ Readie - Nice! Did you see that excellent biopic about her from a few years back? Very worthwhile

@Brian D - Both my parents were NJ public school teacher NJEA union members!

@Brian D - My whole family except my brother and I went through Catholic schools. My dad was scarred by it and did not want that for us. THose nuns meant business! Some were great, others wielded rulers on kids as young as 5

Yes! And, for later, here’s the Gailge version of Oro- with ref. To Grace O’Malley, the Pirate Queen, who famously stood up to Queen Elizabeth I as her equal! https://youtu.be/4Sje2VYw99A?is=Op8TiJpibEiMg_bN

@Brian D - Will check that Kirwan book out!

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Thanks Lizbot! Great show!

Thanks for the St. Paddy's Day show in September, BCNU!

Fantastic show 💯 Thanks, LizBot!

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awesome laborwave smells today liz!

Wow, late to the party! Fucking nailed it!

Thanks Ossy!

Thanks Number 6!

Looks like a good one too

Thanks Christine 𓅓𓅥 𓅊!

Thanks Rofflelectic!

Thanks Brian D!

go raibh maith agat, Lizbot! 💚

Be well on you pilgrimage Readie!

Hi and bye Lizbot and everyone. Late to the party am I

@DJ Readie- Safe Travels! I can't wait to hear all about it!

Hi Rob from Maryland 🦀!

Thx Roff!

Thx Liz!

Thanks for listening, everyone! I wish could've hopped into the chat more, was distracted entering playlist!

HAPPY LABORWAVE! Stay Tuned! And I'll be back on Thursday for another edition of DOUBLEPLUSGOOD!