Help: Help with Irish folk ballads, please

Subject: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: GUEST,UIBH FHAILI
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 01:26 PM

Greetings to all,

I have a collection of Irish Ballads, and i would be very willing to share my ballads with you all if you like,

What i am looking for is a HISTORY or STORY for each of my BALLADS, TWO or THREE lines for each BALLAD would be appropiate,

I would be very grateful for your help,

'MY LIST OF BALLADS'

800 YEARS
A BOY CALLED WILLIAMS
A BUNCH OF THYME
A FENIAN SONG
A JAR OF PORTER
A NATION ONCE AGAIN
A PAIR OF BROWN EYES
A PLACE IN THE CHOIR
A PRISONERS ANTHEM
A RAINY NIGHT IN SOHO
A REBEL SONG
A SOLDIERS SONG
ADMIRAL WILLIAM BROWN
AFTER AUGHRIM'S GREAT DISASTER

'I will post more songs to the forum in the near future'

Feel free to request any of my ballads

Slainte, uibh fhaili

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 01:32 PM

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Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: MMario
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 01:42 PM

Hi UF - many of these have been discussed in the forum - you can find the previous discussions by putting a few keywords into the "digitrad and Forum search" box on the main froum page.

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: Jimmy C
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 02:21 PM

Hi UF - as Mario , search the Digitad and Forum search as Mario suggests. here is a little clip of what is in there for Admiral William Brown.

MAYOMAN PROFOUNDLY INFLUENCED COURSE OF WORLD HISTORY

Illustrious and amazing career of Admiral Brown

Admiral William Brown, the hero of Garcia, Montevideo and Los Pozos, is acknowledged as 'the father of Argentina's Navy.'

In the Rocoloea Cemetery in Buenos Aires there is a memorial with the inscription: "William Brown was born on 22nd June, 1777, at Foxford, County Mayo."

In passing, it may be of interest to mention that his uncle was Parish Priest of Foxford, and suffered arrest for alleged complicity in the '98 insurrection. Escaping from the barracks where he was detained, he went into hiding from his enemies, sheltering in Glanduff and other places from time to time in evasion of the pursuit that was hot on his tracks.His memory is commemorated in his native place, Foxford, by the Foxford Memorial Hall named after him. So that from TerraDel Fuego to Foxford, the name of Admiral William Brown is honoured and his fame is perpetuated.

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 03:17 PM

There are some where I'm sure you'll not like the answers. The Irish tune "Praises of Limerick" appears in some Irish tune collections as "Rodney's Glory". The text of the latter can be found on the Bodley Ballads website, and there's nothing Irish about it.

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 03:27 PM

We always welcome new material, but please do make sure before posting that the songs aren't already here.  As mentioned above, the Digitrad and Forum Search on the main Forum page is the best way of finding things on the site.  Do bear in mind, too, that many songs have alternate titles and varying spellings!

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 03:38 PM

I've found A Pair Of Brown Eyes listed as copyright 1985 Shane MacGowan.

Jon

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: Noreen
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 07:53 PM

Hi UF, you will find After Aughrim listed and discussed on this thread-- (Click on the name) SEAN O'DUIBHIR A GHLEANNA and also links to other threads discussing the song and its relations.

You'll find similar for the other songs, I'm sure, if you search as described in the posts above. You'll also find amazing amounts of other stuff to keep you absorbed for hours!

Have fun.

Noreen

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: GUEST,Annraoi
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 10:16 PM

a Uíbh Fháilí chóír,
Since when did "A Soldier's Song" - more correctly "Amhrán na bhFiann"- become an "Irish Folk Ballad"?
Judging by your soubriquet, you are a native of the Irish Republic and , therefore, should know better. When was the last time you heard "La Marseillaise", the French National Anthem, described as a "French Folk Ballad"?
Annraoi

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: alison
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 12:11 PM

many of the songs on your list are already in the database... and there have been discussions on some of them.... please do a search before adding any of them, (it saves you a lot of typing)

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 12:18 PM

"A Place In the Choir" is from this side of the pond....written by Bill Staines copyright 1979 On "The Whistle of the Jay", FSI-70

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 06:44 PM

And missing the famous Irish traditional song "The Unicorn" by Shel MacSilvestein.

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: old head
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 01:06 PM

my favourite is,the irish folk ballad by tom lehrer.

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: old head
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 01:06 PM

my favourite is,the irish folk ballad by tom lehrer.

Subject: RE: Help: HELP WITH IRISH FOLK BALLADS, 'PLEASE'
From: plucky
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 01:16 PM

IF YOU HAVENT VISTED www.geocities.com/the tropics/cabana/4880/ireland/htm#music YOU SHOULD YOU`LL GET PLENTY OF INFO THERE