Retro Video of the Week: "Zombie" by The Cranberries

With this Monday's untimely death of Dolores O'Riordan at age 46, a Cranberries song seems like the only thing appropriate for this week's Retro Video of the Week.  I am going with my favorite song by the group, "Zombie."  O'Riordan wrote the song in response to an IRA bombing in Warrington, England in March 1993 that left two children dead (and prompted retaliatory attacks on Catholics by the UDA).  It was a protest song of sorts.  O'Riordan was raised in a large Catholic family in Limerick, Ireland, and grew up in the midst of The Troubles (albeit a couple hundred miles from Northern Ireland).  The song has a harder edge and is certainly more grungey than most of The Cranberries' other work.  Then again, it's an angry song, referencing the violence of the Ireland/Northern Ireland conflict, going back the Easter Rising in 1916.  The video features kids pretending to play "war," along with British infantrymen on patrol in Belfast.  RIP, Dolores.