Draft:The Irish Brigade (band)

• Comment: The title of this draft either has been disambiguated or will need to be disambiguated for acceptance.
  If the title of this draft has been disambiguated, submitters and reviewers are asked to check the disambiguated title to see if it is the most useful disambiguation, and, if necessary, rename the draft.
  If this draft is accepted, the disambiguation page will need to be edited. Either an entry will need to be added, or an entry will need to be revised. Please do not edit the disambiguation unless you are accepting this draft.
  The disambiguation page for the primary name is Irish Brigade (disambiguation). Robert McClenon (talk) 05:23, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Doesn't meet WP:NBAND. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 04:43, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

---

The Irish Brigade are an Irish rebel band from Northern Ireland. Founded in the 1980s, they wrote many of the Troubles-era Irish rebel songs. Throughout their 40+ year career, they have been influential on the greater Irish Republican movement as a whole. As of 2024, the band continues to play concerts throughout Ireland and occasionally abroad. Their songs are widely covered by other artists, including The Sam Song, which is frequently used to conclude a rebel concert. Their influence has been compared to The Wolfe Tones, with millions of plays across multiple platforms.

Famous Original Works

• The Roll of Honour
• The Sam Song
• Kinky Boots
• Farewell to Bellaghy/Pardon Me for Smiling
• A Father's Blessing
• My Old Man's a Provo
• The Tunnel Song

1994 Widow Scallans Bombing

On 21 May 1994 an event was organised by Sinn Féin's Prisoner of War Department featuring the rebel band The Irish Brigade to raise funds for the families of IRA prisoners at the Widow Scallans pub in Dublin's Pearse Street.

Around 11PM, the doorman Martin Doherty noticed two suspicious men attempting to enter the pub carrying a bag. After challenging the men, he was shot three times and later died. Another doorman was seriously injured after being shot in the throat. The gunmen left the scene in a car driven by a third man, leaving behind the holdall which contained an 18-pound (8.2 kg) bomb. The bomb's detonator exploded as people attended to Doherty and the other injured doorman, but the main explosives failed to ignite. The Gardaí stated a massacre had been avoided due to the bomb failing to explode properly.

The attempted bombing was the first in Dublin since the 1970s, and Doherty was the first person killed in the Republic of Ireland by the UVF since November 1975. The UVF issued a statement claiming responsibility for the shootings and attempted bombing, saying they had "struck at the very heart of the republican movement in its own back yard" and that "the UVF would warn the IRA and the Dublin government that the Ulster people will neither be coerced nor persuaded and will remain masters of their own destiny.