There was no ‘Up the Ra’ after Sinn Féin’s recent victory. However, rebel music is not the hateful canon of stereotype
Rebel songs can become unacceptable to more people the closer the events they describe are to the present. The same song can be, at different times and to different people, a source of community strength, an anodyne historical curiosity or a live and dangerous incitement to violence.
History is crudely deployed by the liberal-conservative centre of Ireland against Sinn Féin whenever the latter shows particular polling strength. And so rebel music too must be used as a cudgel in the great patriotic culture war against the Shinners. Rebel music is not the archaic, hateful canon so often stereotyped, but a vivid, living document of historical resistance. There are funny ballads, distasteful ones, moving and sorrowful ones too. These songs are a record of times that cannot be wished away by those presenting a bland, ahistorical veneer of unity. The instinct to reflexively condemn is also a refusal to attempt to understand, a refusal of empathy.
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