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I. intro. Hook- Celtic punk rock seems like a straight forward genre of music; irish punks drinking, fighting, and raising hell, but it has done its share of influending around the world. Thesis- celtic punk's working class and rebellious image has made it a good genre for oppressed people in tyrannical societies and has spread irishness all over the world. II. Body A. celtic punk defined as traditional celtic music with punk sounds and mind set. i. traditional irish instruments used with punk sound and irish symbols such as shamrock, green, and gaelic language. ii. these symbols are uniquely irish and no other culture in the world can use these symbols unless making the connection to ireland. iii. bands such as the pogues and dropkick murphys use these symbols to express irishness. iv. CA- even though these bands are emigrant bands with irish heritage they are still the main influences in irish punk, and many punk bands have members who are irish and from irish heritage. B. beginning with the pogues, they combined trad. irish music with the imerging punk scene from london. i. these sounds eventually made it across the Atlantic to America and influenced bands like dropkick murphys ii. they incorporated new American irish symbols particularly from Boston such as the red sox and other american twists. iii. they do covers of traditional irish songs plus original material. This emphasized the history of ireland (i.e overcoming hardship, The Famine, the revolution) iv. they can't be seen as a true cover band because the covers of trad. irish songs are done with a punk sound unigue from old irish music and also the creation of new songs specific to america. D. the genre then made its way to korea with the "expats" or expatriots punk scene. largely influence by US G.I.s i. the band the tear jerks is the primary irish punk band in korea. ii. incorporation of the irish rebelliousness from the events of the 1980s and the sense of irish perseverance from the history of ireland. iii. they closely imitate similar irish punk bands from the US and don't incorporate new sounds into the music. iv. has been influencial in the formation of the punk scene in korea but is not exactly unique to a korean sound. III. Conclusion. A. because of the history of ireland the music was used as a sound of overcoming hardship and rebelion. B. has a superficial feeling of roudiness, but the underlying message is one of freedom.