Edited sentence: --Kulturvultur 07:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC).Compared to most Irish rebel music, "The Orange and the Green" is rather sympathetic to the conflicts between British religious influence and Irish culture and determinism.It does not have the propagandistic pull of such songs as "Up Went Nelson" or other Irish rebel music written in protest of the British occupation of Northern Ireland.It is intended as a humorous satire of everyday life in Northern Ireland.While "The Orange and the Green" does not have the satiric bite of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, it shows the resiliance and wit that those Irish living in an occupied Northern Ireland