Songs and Music Associated With Irish Authors.

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Raglan Road, Lyrics by Patrick Kavanagh.

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Down By The Sally Gardens......Lyrics by W.B.Yeats.

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Van Morrison and The Chieftans.

tuisginideach

Schoolteacher and poet George Washington Johnson made only one contribution to the world of popular song: the lyrics to the standard When You and I Were Young, Maggie, written for his new wife, Maggie Clark, who was ailing from tuberculosis. Born in 1839 near Toronto, Canada, Johnson studied to become a schoolteacher, and by 20 years of age he began teaching in Hamilton, Ontario. As a young teacher, he met and fell in love with Maggie Clark, who at that time was one of his students. George W Johnson brought his bride to Cleveland, and joined the Plain Dealer as associate editor.During one of Clark's harshest struggles with her illness, Johnson composed his now famous poem to her while viewing the local mill from his perch on a nearby hill, and then published it in 1864 in his book of poetry titled Maple Leaves. Johnson and Clark were married in October of that year, but in the spring of 1865, at the young age of 23, Maggie Clark died. Grief-stricken, he resigned from the paper early in 1866 and returned to Canada.A year later, Johnson requested his friend, James Austin Butterfield, to set the poem to music, and the song quickly became a popular worldwide standard. George Washington Johnson married twice more and died in 1917 in Pasadena, California.

The Irish playwright Sean O'Casey [1880-1964] substituted the name Nora for Maggie and used this song in his The Plough And The Stars wherein Jack Clitheroe sings it to his wife Nora.

Swiper the fox

Galway/ Tipperary novelist Julian Gough in his previous life as frontman with Toasted Heretic
LSD isn't what it used to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMztx7jZuI

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tuisginideach wrote: »

Schoolteacher and poet George Washington Johnson made only one contribution to the world of popular song: the lyrics to the standard When You and I Were Young, Maggie, written for his new wife, Maggie Clark, who was ailing from tuberculosis. Born in 1839 near Toronto, Canada, Johnson studied to become a schoolteacher, and by 20 years of age he began teaching in Hamilton, Ontario. As a young teacher, he met and fell in love with Maggie Clark, who at that time was one of his students. George W Johnson brought his bride to Cleveland, and joined the Plain Dealer as associate editor.During one of Clark's harshest struggles with her illness, Johnson composed his now famous poem to her while viewing the local mill from his perch on a nearby hill, and then published it in 1864 in his book of poetry titled Maple Leaves. Johnson and Clark were married in October of that year, but in the spring of 1865, at the young age of 23, Maggie Clark died. Grief-stricken, he resigned from the paper early in 1866 and returned to Canada.A year later, Johnson requested his friend, James Austin Butterfield, to set the poem to music, and the song quickly became a popular worldwide standard. George Washington Johnson married twice more and died in 1917 in Pasadena, California.

The Irish playwright Sean O'Casey [1880-1964] substituted the name Nora for Maggie and used this song in his The Plough And The Stars wherein Jack Clitheroe sings it to his wife Nora.

I will put it up here, thank you!

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Rory Gallagher

Youtube's acting up at the moment, but have a look at Ronnie Drew singing a song that James Joyce wrote in the novel Finnegan's Wake.