Favourite Irish song

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 08:00 AM

Don't know that one, LF ~~ how does it go? [If you mean "Wi' a hundred pipers an' a', an' a'", that's Scottish, not Irish!]

~M~

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: DougR
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 02:08 PM

"The Rose of Tralee" sung by the great Irish tenor, Christopher Lynch.

DougR

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 02:18 PM

Indeed ~~ or that other great Irish tenor, Count John McCormack.

Likewise The Mountains Of Mourne.

And many others by the great Percy French.

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: Bert
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:02 PM

Nice one Doug.

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: KHNic
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:13 PM

Have we got this far without mentioning Down by the Glenside, or Glory Oh to our bold Fenian men as some would call it.

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 06:26 PM

Ah ~~ now once we get into rebel songs ~~ Foggy Dew, Johnson's Motor Car, My Name is O'Hanlon ...!!!!!

BTW ~ how about The Ould Triangle, then? The Bown & the Yellow Ale?

~M~

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: Dug
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 06:01 PM

The Foggy Dew

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: DougR
Date: 26 Mar 12 - 04:14 PM

Bert: Are you a fan of Christopher Lynch? I posted something about him several years ago and his son-in-law posted a reply and mentioned that the the family was working on a CD of his songs to be released sometime in the future. As far as I know, it never was and I wonder why. Unfortunately I cannot remember the name of the mudcatter who wrote me.

(Apologies for thread creep)

DougR

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 09:19 AM

Cecilia Costello's The Grey Cock.

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: Robo
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 04:57 PM

Can one actually pick just one? No way. How about . . .

Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor
The Ballad of William Bloat
Green Fields of France and
The Town I loved So Well

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: GUEST,Allan Conn
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 05:13 PM

Green Fields Of France(ie No Man's Land) was written by Eric Bogle a Scottish Borderer who emigrated to Australia in his 20s. Not Irish.

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: Robo
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 06:12 PM

Aye, thanks for the correction. Such a wonderful song . . .

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 09:01 PM

And how is "Sonny's Dream" (Ron Hynes) Irish? Ron Hynes is from Newfoundland, which was in Canada last time I looked! And the video shown is from Gander (also Newfoundland)
(See mg 21.03.12.)
I have a set of 4 song-books called "Songs Sung in the pubs of Ireland" which gets round the fact that there are several Scots, English and other songs in them - but some folk end up believing they are all Irish songs! Or because an Irish band has recorded them, they take on Irish identity.
I've absolutely nothing against the Irish or their many fantastic songs but it does annoy me when songs are wrongly attributed by folk who don't trouble to find out their true origins. (OK I exclude from this ones where there is considerable debate or perhaps several alternative versions - I mean those where there is is a 100% known author).

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: raredance
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 12:10 AM

I love Tommy Makem's "Curlew Song"

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: Bert
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 06:54 AM

Hi DougR, I don't know of Christopher Lynch. Who is he?

Subject: RE: Favourite Irish song
From: framus
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 09:40 PM

Long thread, and maybe I missed it ;-
The West's Asleep (Awake?) - best version, Tommy Makem, with The Clancys.