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Loyalist band filmed playing sectarian songs outside Catholic church in Belfast

Shankill YCVA video has been posted on YouTube showing a Shankill band stopping to play loyalist tunes outside a Catholic church in Belfast during yesterday’s Twelfth demonstratons.

The footage, which was filmed at St Patrick’s Church on Donegall Street, shows the band – wearing Shankill YCV uniforms – walking around in circles outside the chapel.

The BBC has reported that at the end of one of the videos, the person recording it is confronted and threatened by members of another band.

At one point the band was playing the music of “the famine song“, an anti-Catholic song which originated in Glasgow.

The famine song is played to the music of the Beach Boys’ Sloop John B, but replaces the chorus “I feel so broke up, I wanna go home” with “The famine is over, why don’t you go home?”.

A man who filmed one of the videos – and who did not want to be named – said it happened shortly after the main Belfast Orange Order parade left Carlisle Circus.

He said there was a delay in the parade and the band moved from where they were standing to play outside the church.

He said they played for 15 to 20 minutes and at one point were dancing outside it while drums were being played.

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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