Long-lasting “Irish Rebel” Bands:

The Wolf Tones- Established in 1963, and continue to perform and tour today.

The Dubliners-Established in 1962, the remaining member(s) perform under the name “The Dublin Legends.”

The Irish Brigade– Established in 1981 and are still active.

Sources:

D. George Boyce. Nationalism in Ireland (United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Group, 1995)

Seán Ó Cadhla. “‘800 Years We Have Been Down’: Rebel Songs and the Retrospective Reach of the Irish Republican Narrative” in Sijis 12 (2022), 195-214.

David Cooper. The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and Its Diaspora: Community and Conflict. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.

Leith Davis. Music, Post-Colonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1724-1874. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.

Rachel C. Fleming. “Resisting Cultural Standardization: Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and the Revitalization of Traditional Music in Ireland” in Journal of Folklore Research 41, 2-3 (2004), 227-257.

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Steven R. Millar. “‘Music is my AK-47’: performing resistance in Belfast’s rebel music scene” in J R Anthropol Inst, 24 (2018): 348-365. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12814

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Cathal Pratt. “Rebel Records or ‘Sweet Songs of Freedom’?: Transatlantic Republicanism in Irish-American Music” in American Journal of Irish Studies 14 (2017): 83–111. http://www.jstor.org/stable/90011908.

Bill Rolston. “‘This is not a Rebel Song’: The Irish Conflict and Popular Music” in Race & Class 42, 3 (2001): 49-67.

George-Denis Zimmerman. Songs of Irish Rebellion: Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs 1780-1900. Hatboro, PA: Forklore Associates Inc., 1967.

Additional references:

Irish Traditional Music Archives, https://itma.ie/

The Troubles (podcast)

Revolutionary Ireland (podcast)

Outreach Ethnomusicology (blog), Foggy Dew