Songs about Ireland, sung by Non Irish Singers

[delboy]

'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)??

[Hardy]

It can be both. Dual citizenship is common enough.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

I could have sworn that song was about New York, and last time I checked, it definitely wasn't in Ireland

[delboy]

I could have sworn that song was about New York, and last time I checked, it definitely wasn't in Ireland

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.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

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.

[saffron sam2]

I could have sworn that song was about New York, and last time I checked, it definitely wasn't in Ireland

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.

[delboy]

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.

[J OGorman]

The Shankill Butchers - The Decemberists

[AFS]

The Shankill Butchers - The Decemberists

The Tain - The Decemberists 

[Donnellys Hollow]

Mark Knopfler's version of On Raglan Road:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftcuVQDcNM

[ross4life]

'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?

[muppet]

Out there brothers - Song about my own county

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjFa4HTbH8&feature=related

[The Iceman]

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.

[ballinaman]

Out there brothers - Song about my own county

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...

[Fiodoir Ard Mhacha]

Mná na hÉireann, Kate Bush