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[edit]

^ 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

v t e Irish rebel songs
Gaelic Ireland	Óró sé do bheatha abhaile Follow Me up to Carlow O'Donnell Abú
United Irishmen	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
Famine & Young Ireland	The Fields of Athenry Skibbereen Back Home in Derry God Save Ireland A Nation Once Again Join the British Army The Peeler and the Goat The Black Velvet Band
1916 & War of Independence	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
Civil War & Anti-Treaty	Take It Down from the Mast The Patriot Game Sean South from Garryowen
The Troubles	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
Writers	Patrick Joseph McCall Timothy Daniel Sullivan Peadar Kearney Patrick Pearse Seán O'Casey Brian O'Higgins Bryan MacMahon Paddy McGuigan Dominic Behan Pete St. John Derek Warfield Mickey MacConnell

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