Fortunate Son

The Hurricane

Scullabogue

Bloody Sunday

Topic

Song

Link

Early Christian Ireland

Salve Regina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSct3kcVMck

Ancient Rome

The Evil Emperors song - Horrible Histories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWwAC9dOTCE

Life and Death in Medieval Times

William the Conqueror 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfmjiZ_isso

The Renaissance 

Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI712ZGflAQ

Age of Explorations

How deep is the ocean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9yMDRdXj3E

The Reformation

Martin Luther Rap Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4piapxaT0k

The Plantations

The land of no surrender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uS2WGXkKYg

American Revolution

The battle of Trenton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM0ui-88SQU

French Revolution

Look down from musical Les Miserables

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyqURSNx-KY

1798 Rebellion

Boolavogue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjbI2y7j6NU

Parliamentary Tradition

Daniel O’Connell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q_O9kmXObo

The Great Famine

The Great Hunger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF0vPDxt8hI

The struggle for Independence 1916-1923

The wind that shakes the barley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6wqbrPX-lA

The Troubles in Northern Ireland

Sunday Bloody Sunday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM4vblG6BVQ

World War One 

It's a long way to Tipperary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVM-tFAdADg

Life in Communist Russia

Russian national anthem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOAtz8xWM0w

Life in Fascist Germany

Hitlerleute

https://altcensored.com/watch?v=-d4buOk_o2Q

Genocide

Dachau song

https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/collections-highlights/music-of-the-holocaust-highlights-from-the-collection/music-of-the-holocaust/dachau-song

World War Two

Waltzing Matilda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kfmlB5LiFc

Nearly 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the legacy of the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland shows no sign of abating.

Over three nights in April 1922 thirteen men were murdered in west Cork, because, according the late Canadian historian Peter Hart, they were Protestants.

A documentary about a number of Northern Irish photographers who witnessed the Troubles and unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns.

Explore our interactive map and watch and listen to personal accounts from men and women who lived through Easter 1916.

In October 1967 the Irish language brought people out of their homes and on to the streets of Dublin city. At the General Post Office a pro Irish language meeting of predominantly young people expressed their commitment to the language. At the same time the Language Freedom Movement held a public meeting at the Mansion House in an effort to educate people about the organisation and its objectives.

2. What line or lyric in the song did you enjoy the most and why?

3. What was the target audience for this song?

4.  What attitude toward the war is being expressed? Do you think the songwriter is expressing their personal feelings, or the general attitudes of their society? 

5.  Can you guess where and when this event took place?

A film about a British soldier that gets separated from his comrades during a patrol in Belfast. Looks at the relationship between elements of British security forces and paramilitary groups. Further looks at how British army objections didn't necessarily align with those of other groupings within the British security apparatus. Offers students an insight into life in Belfast during the Troubles.

Spoken word poem about the suffering of African Americans.

Black slaves are present too, showing the hypocrisy of the freedom being fought for during the Revolutionary War.

A tough watch but a sense of the human cost of the Holocaust. No actual death shown as it is a real shower but the fear/panic of the people entering the camp is clear.

This is the story of the first world war, known as the Great War, from 1914 -1918 told through the diaries of the people, politicians and soldiers who lived through those years.