Johnny Cash (forty shades of green)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0oTDS9ur_U
Paul McCartney (give ireland back to the irish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaO4XeHhwo8
Garth Brooks (ireland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeEfKZnxNuc (crap video but great song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSrev038hlo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSrev038hlo) john lennon luck of the irish
Spandau Ballet - Through The Barricades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLR9yyI9CHg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLR9yyI9CHg)
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYKJuDxYr3I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYKJuDxYr3I)
Technically about a girl from Galway, as opposed to Ireland in general, but...
Steve Earle - Galway Girl
Nanci Griffith -- I Would Bring You Ireland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p-GEkkx8GQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p-GEkkx8GQ)
Nanci Griffith -- It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1B9lPbdHTk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1B9lPbdHTk)
Danny Boy Johnny Cash and Jimmy Rodgers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmFgnuLGG70
QuoteSimon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Huh? Explain please Ziggy as this is news to me!
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on January 18, 2010, 11:01:48 PM
QuoteSimon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Huh? Explain please Ziggy as this is news to me!
I remember hearing about it years ago. However I guess through the passages of time, I could have gotten a little muddled. That or someone lied to me in a childhood.
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on January 18, 2010, 11:01:48 PM
QuoteSimon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Huh? Explain please Ziggy as this is news to me!
Yeah Ziggy sure everyone knows they are Irish:
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00669/TTM092101CC_RGB_ONL_669663a.jpg)
Ireland is Superman,
Ireland is Superman,
Ireland is Superman,
Ireland is Superman...
Song by the Man City fans to himself that's too good for his country
'Fairy tale in new york' sung by an englishman and women.
Quote from: delboy on January 19, 2010, 01:20:38 PM
'Fairy tale in new york' sung by an englishman and women.
I assume you mean '
of'. And quite clearly he's Irish unless you think that parentage and birthplace don't determine nationality.
Quote from: Rav67 on January 19, 2010, 01:34:00 PM
Quote from: delboy on January 19, 2010, 01:20:38 PM
'Fairy tale in new york' sung by an englishman and women.
I assume you mean 'of'. And quite clearly he's Irish unless you think that parentage and birthplace don't determine nationality.
He was actually born in England. However Shane would never consider himself an English man.
Quote from: Rav67 on January 19, 2010, 01:34:00 PM
Quote from: delboy on January 19, 2010, 01:20:38 PM
'Fairy tale in new york' sung by an englishman and women.
I assume you mean 'of'. And quite clearly he's Irish unless you think that parentage and birthplace don't determine nationality.
Im pretty sure he was born in england (tunbridge wells is in Kent last time i checked) as where six of the eight members of the pogues.
Quote from: delboy on January 19, 2010, 01:41:27 PM
Quote from: Rav67 on January 19, 2010, 01:34:00 PM
Quote from: delboy on January 19, 2010, 01:20:38 PM
'Fairy tale in new york' sung by an englishman and women.
I assume you mean 'of'. And quite clearly he's Irish unless you think that parentage and birthplace don't determine nationality.
Im pretty sure he was born in england (tunbridge wells is in Kent last time i checked) as where six of the eight members of the pogues.
And quite clearly he's Irish unless you think that parentage and birthplace don't determine nationality
Quote from: ludermor on January 19, 2010, 01:47:27 PM
Quote from: delboy on January 19, 2010, 01:41:27 PM
Quote from: Rav67 on January 19, 2010, 01:34:00 PM
Quote from: delboy on January 19, 2010, 01:20:38 PM
'Fairy tale in new york' sung by an englishman and women.
I assume you mean 'of'. And quite clearly he's Irish unless you think that parentage and birthplace don't determine nationality.
Im pretty sure he was born in england (tunbridge wells is in Kent last time i checked) as where six of the eight members of the pogues.
And quite clearly he's Irish unless you think that parentage and birthplace don't determine nationality
Well which is it? Birthplace (english) or parentage (Irish)??
It can be both. Dual citizenship is common enough.
I could have sworn that song was about New York, and last time I checked, it definitely wasn't in Ireland :P
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on January 19, 2010, 02:00:34 PM
I could have sworn that song was about New York, and last time I checked, it definitely wasn't in Ireland :P
Its the drunken reminiscing of an irish immagriant about christmases past spent with his irish immagriant lover, with several rather obvious references to ireland in it.
It involves reminiscences about their time in New York, and whether there are references to Ireland in it or not, be they immigrants to the US or not, that's not what the song is about. Example:
They got cars big as bars
They got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It´s no place for the old
When you first took my hand on a cold christmas eve
You promised me broadway was waiting for me
You were handsome you were pretty
Queen of new york city when the band finished playing they yelled out for more
Sinatra was swinging all the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night.
Quote from: delboy on January 19, 2010, 02:14:56 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on January 19, 2010, 02:00:34 PM
I could have sworn that song was about New York, and last time I checked, it definitely wasn't in Ireland :P
Its the drunken reminiscing of an irish immagriant about christmases past spent with his irish immagriant lover, with several rather obvious references to ireland in it.
One fears the Irish emigrant in the song is not the only person drunk.
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on January 19, 2010, 02:27:42 PM
It involves reminiscences about their time in New York, and whether there are references to Ireland in it or not, be they immigrants to the US or not, that's not what the song is about. Example:
They got cars big as bars
They got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It´s no place for the old
When you first took my hand on a cold christmas eve
You promised me broadway was waiting for me
You were handsome you were pretty
Queen of new york city when the band finished playing they yelled out for more
Sinatra was swinging all the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night.
Its a far cop sticking to the critera of the thread title even though the two protagonists of the song are irish and irish references crop up it isn't a song about ireland.
The Shankill Butchers - The Decemberists
Quote from: J OGorman on January 19, 2010, 03:32:55 PM
The Shankill Butchers - The Decemberists
The Tain - The Decemberists :)
Mark Knopfler's version of On Raglan Road:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftcuVQDcNM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftcuVQDcNM)
Quote from: delboy on January 19, 2010, 01:20:38 PM
'Fairy tale in new york' sung by an englishman and women.
well i knew Shane MacGowan would be included somewhere, but couldn't we fill the thread with his songs as most are about Ireland?
Out there brothers - Song about my own county
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjFa4HTbH8&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjFa4HTbH8&feature=related)
I remember coming home from Nicaragua after 7 weeks away and 18 of us singing Garth Brooks' Ireland on the plane before we touched down in Dublin. Great buzz. Was my first time flying (at the ripe age of 20) and the longest I'd ever been away from home.
Quote from: muppet on January 19, 2010, 04:07:25 PM
Out there brothers - Song about my own county
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjFa4HTbH8&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjFa4HTbH8&feature=related)
Excellent...I remember some Clare lad started singing that at the Mayo/Laois drawn quarter in 06 on the hill, Clare/Kilkenny semi on after, was hilarious...
Mná na hÉireann, Kate Bush
Fiddler on the spoof.
Luck of the Irish John Lennon;
Give Ireland back to the Irish McCartney
Galway Girl by Texas Steve Earle
Little known song about ireland from The late great Warren Zevon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIk-GQbwaBM
Invisible Sun, The Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZziWz4StM2g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZziWz4StM2g)
Quote from: passedit on January 19, 2010, 07:07:09 PM
Invisible Sun, The Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZziWz4StM2g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZziWz4StM2g)
i'm acually in that video, duffle coat and HAIR!!!! STILL WAITING ON MY MONEY, STING
Boney M. Belfast.
Dick Gaughan -- A Song for Ireland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PInNrFZQEwk)
Does this count??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0asWhyP1Fso
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on January 19, 2010, 08:11:32 PM
Dick Gaughan -- A Song for Ireland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PInNrFZQEwk)
Gaughans family would have a strong connection with north mayo and would be a regular visiitor to the place.
Quote from: ludermor on January 19, 2010, 11:28:31 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on January 19, 2010, 08:11:32 PM
Dick Gaughan -- A Song for Ireland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PInNrFZQEwk)
Gaughans family would have a strong connection with north mayo and would be a regular visiitor to the place.
Undeniably, but he's very much a Scotsman ("a proud Leither") -- his grandfather was a native Irish speaker from Mayo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Ca_lwxi9o
SKrewdriver
Judy Collins -- The Patriot Game
Emmylou Harris - Another Pot O' Tea
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on January 19, 2010, 11:41:49 PM
Quote from: ludermor on January 19, 2010, 11:28:31 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on January 19, 2010, 08:11:32 PM
Dick Gaughan -- A Song for Ireland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PInNrFZQEwk)
Gaughans family would have a strong connection with north mayo and would be a regular visiitor to the place.
Undeniably, but he's very much a Scotsman ("a proud Leither") -- his grandfather was a native Irish speaker from Mayo.
Not questioning that at all, his grandfather came from the same village as myself and another few gaaboarders.
Has Simple Minds "Belfast Child" been mentioned??
And I think the guy who wrote "Song For Ireland" was English??
Quote from: A Quinn Martin Production on January 20, 2010, 11:15:11 AM
And I think the guy who wrote "Song For Ireland" was English??
Scottish born: Phil Colclough.
Tom Jones sang a song called 'The Green Green Grass of Home'. We used to sing it after Ireland rugby games in America and it fairly got the crowd going.
Don McLean's version of Mountains of Mourne - although I think he thinks it's a single mountain as he sings "in the place where the dark Mourne sweeps down to the sea".