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If you could bring one Irish musician back to life...

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    #32
    RobYourBuilder
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    Mic Christopher.


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    #33
    rebelbmx
    Registered Users Posts: 268 ✭✭rebelbmx


    rebelbmx wrote: »
    Jim Morrison

    Sorry, just saw musician missed the Irish part. So I choose Rory Gallagher


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    #34
    rmchmufc
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭rmchmufc


    Phil Lynott


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    #35
    smokie72
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    Phil Lynott


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    #36
    barney 20v
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    Luke Kelly- he'd do some singing about the issues we're facing today !
    A proper social spokesperson of his day...
    A ballad about how labour sold out the working man perhaps???
    " to whom do we owe our allegiance today" ......

    Plus he's the greatest balladeer ever to have graced us.
    Luke made a difference then.... He'd make one now!


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    #37
    Dexter Bip
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    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Pains Angelicus ....;)

    Panis (sic) in the arse. Actually my parents had it sung at their wedding in 1960 by a tenor and were very proud. Thing was nobody knew anything different.


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    #38
    john the one
    Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    barney 20v wrote: »
    Luke Kelly- he'd do some singing about the issues we're facing today !
    A proper social spokesperson of his day...
    A ballad about how labour sold out the working man perhaps???
    " to whom do we owe our allegiance today" ......

    Plus he's the greatest balladeer ever to have graced us.
    Luke made a difference then.... He'd make one now!

    Very good answer and well thought out. It seems to be Luke in the lead


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    #39
    Dexter Bip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Dexter Bip


    Thinking about it Fran O'Toole was a sad loss. Nothing like Gary Moore but a charming and talented man who was loved by my younger sister before he he died so tragically. He would have gone on to great things.


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    #40
    wendell borton
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    Turlogh O'Carolan


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    #41
    6541
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    I was only messing earlier, I would say Luke Kelly hands down.


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    #42
    john the one
    Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    6541 wrote: »
    I was only messing earlier, I would say Luke Kelly hands down.

    Well we can't take you seriously now so you lose your right of opinion :)


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    #43
    MadYaker
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    Luke Kelly or Rory Gallagher


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    #44
    john the one
    Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Luke Kelly or Rory Gallagher

    If i had a pick of either right now I would pick Gallagher, dare I say he was and is the best musical talent to come from these shores ever? Mind you, pound for pound, Damien Rice would be a better songwriter but he's not fully dead yet


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    #45
    The Strawman Argument
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    I'd probably pick Liam Clancy just because I meant to go see him a few years ago on one of those shows where he was mostly talking and playing songs in between but I forgot it was on. He died a few months later so I didn't get another chance to.


    ...and here's Joe Dolan covering Psycho Killer


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    #46
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users Posts: 10,642 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    john the one wrote: »
    If i had a pick of either right now I would pick Gallagher, dare I say he was and is the best musical talent to come from these shores ever? Mind you, pound for pound, Damien Rice would be a better songwriter but he's not fully dead yet

    Not "fully" dead yet!!!??? Wtf?


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    #47
    john the one
    Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    Mental Mickey wrote: »
    Not "fully" dead yet!!!??? Wtf?

    Well he doesn't really bring the whole party vibe with him does he? And 5 or more years or so between albums???


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    #48
    jas376
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭jas376


    Sean O Riada


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    #49
    llennocO
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭llennocO


    James Joyce!


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    #50
    Notorious97
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    Liam Clancy, also Luke Kelly


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    #51
    Summer wind
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    Phil Lynott.
    Larry Cunningham.
    Frank Patterson.
    Ronnie Drew.
    Joe Dolan.


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    #52
    Annasopra
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    Luke Kelly

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #53
    Yamanoto
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    Seamus Ennis & Christie Hennessy

    Success came late in life for Christie & would have been nice for him to hang around a bit to enjoy it.


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    #54
    Meangadh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    Definitely Mic Christopher. Luke Kelly a close second.


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    #55
    Shrap
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    RobYourBuilder wrote: »
    Mic Christopher.

    Gotta agree with you there. Died before he got a big break through like Hozier just has, but he had such a special voice and original talent. Love this song http://youtu.be/k2L0_Fu0sSo?list=PLD8kyWBjl4s9sHU2UXBI8VabrOiMoHV1j


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    #56
    sligojoek
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    Sinead O Connor.


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    #57
    Steve_Carella
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    Turlough O'Carolan.


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    #58
    Talib Fiasco
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    Mic Christopher definitely. What a shockingly gifted musician.


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    #59
    kfallon
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    Banjo Barney from Donnycarney.....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiOWd7ArmWQ


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    #60
    Filmer Paradise
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    Clancy Brothers.

    Not really into their music, but I've a lorryload of Aran jumpers to sell.


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    The Princess Bride
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    Gary Moore, without a doubt.First name that came to mind when I saw the thread.

    Quite a lot of Irish musicians who died young.
    Tommy McManus, Spyder Simpson haven't been mentioned.Too young and so talented.


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