I wrote this song to raise funds for our local prisoners’ support group. Basically, it tells the story of the huge and courageous part that was played by ‘the felons of our land’ in the struggle for Irish freedom, not just in our time either, and the certainty that the 800 years of a British campaign to colonise us would ultimately fail in the face of our heroic resistance.

Label written by Francie Brolly from Republic Museum, Dungiven.