My ancestors are mostly from either Southern Ireland or Northern Ireland, and from there they can be traced back to Scotland and Northern England. It is kind of an amusing note but I grew up listening to the Irish songs of Rebellion made famous by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, but then around the time that I was about twenty or so I finally clued that my last name is from Northern Ireland...... and my dad's ancestors mercilessly oppressed my mom's ancestors from Southern Ireland!
Since that time....
I actually have gone quite radically left wing on some topics.... and quite radically centrist on other topics?!
This is the very album that I first heard this song from: