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Rebel Notes by Stan ErraughtWhy did Come Out Ye Black and Tans, a song written by Dominic Behan in the early 1960s and recorded by The Wolfe Tones in 1972, top the download charts in 2020? And why was another Wolfe Tones song, Celtic Symphony, at the centre of a confected controversy and media frenzy after the Irish womens soccer team were videoed singing the chorus in their dressing room in October 2022? Come Out Ye Black and Tans is the starting point of Stan Erraught powerful

'Their story has never before been told

and Palestine

As a teenager growing up in Derry's Bogside area in the 1960s

It is a fitting testimony to Lumpkin's unique photographic account of the event in derry that shaped Ireland for decades afterwards

It is the work of a man who set himself a mission to unearth Derry's story from the mists of the past to preserve it for generations stretching forward into the 21st century

It was viewed as ‘a safety valve’ for the tempers of loyalist extremism

which could only have been created by a writer who loved his subject

let it be a tale

The book also looks at attempts to counter the popularity of rebel songs through the official adoption of the Cranberries song ‘Zombie’ at some sporting events

Donegal man Paul MccArtney knew more about what was happening in Derry than anyone

the dreads B-men' and the British Army

a refusal to conform

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