The greatest Irish song of all time

gammygils

Heads Are Gonna Roll by The Stunning. My favourite Stunning track

Cathleen (A Beautiful Irish Girl) - Phil Lynott

Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers. The way our country used to be back then

ANDREWMUFC

Parting glass - Ronnie drew

pleas advice

timthumbni wrote: »

Actually the song Carrickfergus is an amazing one too. Well I’m drunk now and I’m seldom sober.....

And the only time I'm feeling right is when I'm into drinking
It eases off the pain of it and levels out my thinking

MikeyTaylor

reddevilfan wrote: »

The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Bagatelle - Summer in Dublin

The wild rover, Dirty old Town, Fields of Athenry and of course Rosanna D's Father and the


The lady in Red______
I've never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight
I've never seen you shine so bright (you are amazing)
I've never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance
They're looking for a little romance, given half a chance
And I have never seen that dress you're wearing
Or the highlights in your hair that catch your eyes
I have been blind

Chris de Burgh and Shane MacGowan are English.

The Rape of Lucretia

.red. wrote: »

I've already posted my favourites, but I'm shocked nobody has mentioned the great Irish cailín band, B*witched and their french song, C'est La Vie.
Here it is for anyone fortune enough to forget it

https://youtu.be/UvjLgjtJKsc

They're very bouncy.

The Rape of Lucretia

Which is great and all.


But I'd vote for this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhq39_CpJ9Y

Mary Coughlan was huge in the 80s, selling 100,000 copies of one of her albums in 1985. She was also very much a fiery one, talking publicly about her abortion, alcoholism, domestic violence and divorce when that wasn't really done.

So many great songs from her but the sultry divilment and roguery out of her in this one from 1985 put a smile on many's a face at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h4g2g7vDRQ

andekwarhola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJzWPBA7Jmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9n7EstQI5o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkic_L9XSzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMxKggsz0fM

green shoots

Drinking Karpackie alone of a Friday night may influence this suggestion but "Alone Again, Naturally", by Gilbert O'Sullivan

Suckit

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Chris de Burgh and Shane MacGowan are English.

Isn't Chris de Burgh South American, or something like that? Born there and lived most of his young life there? Chile, Argentina or Uruguay?

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House of Pain - Jump Around. :pac:

...Dawn

Not my favourite but I do appreciate and love Irish music...

Weile Waile

Connacht Rangers

Celtic Symphony

Joe Mc Donnell

Rising of the moon

riffmongous

...Dawn wrote: »

Not my favourite but I do appreciate and love Irish music...

Weile Waile

Connacht Rangers

Celtic Symphony

Joe Mc Donnell

Rising of the moon

Celtic symphony is an awesome song.. Except for that one part of course

degsie

Wanderly Wagon

...Dawn

riffmongous wrote: »

Celtic symphony is an awesome song.. Except for that one part of course

Meh...that's the part that makes it..:p

...Dawn

The Connacht Rangers - what a great story in song

My favourite lyric..'we fought your every bloody war, we fight your war no more..

Why does it seem, Irish people dislike their own music and history?

...Dawn

Irish music was always played in my house and in our community.

I've a lovely memory of when my best pal and I were around 17 at a party with her older brothers and they were all asking her to sing a song and she sang 'Dirty oul Town!' Can't post links atm!

squawker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIEYMiz1X0U

Fr Tod Umptious

...Dawn wrote: »

Irish music was always played in my house and in our community.

I've a lovely memory of when my best pal and I were around 17 at a party with her older brothers and they were all asking her to sing a song and she sang 'Dirty oul Town!' Can't post links atm!

It's probably because The Dubliners made it popular that people think Dirty Old Town is an Irish song.

It's not.

It was written by an Englishman about his home town, Salford.

Nothing to do with Ireland

julyjane

riffmongous wrote: »

Celtic symphony is an awesome song.. Except for that one part of course

The Sam song is similarly brilliant.

riffmongous

julyjane wrote: »

The Sam song is similarly brilliant.

Yeah Éire Óg live at the Brazen Head!

I wonder if anyone knows the origin of the ooh ahh chant?

riffmongous

green shoots wrote: »

Drinking Karpackie alone of a Friday night may influence this suggestion but "Alone Again, Naturally", by Gilbert O'Sullivan

Did you see the Christie Dignam version mentioned earlier?

MikeyTaylor

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

It's probably because The Dubliners made it popular that people think Dirty Old Town is an Irish song.

It's not.

It was written by an Englishman about his home town, Salford.

Nothing to do with Ireland

Same with 'When You Were Sweet 16', the Fureys famously covered it but it was written by American James Thornton and covered by Al Jolson and Perry Como amongst others, before any of the Fureys were even born.

Bowlardo

Whipping boy -when we were young

AndyBoBandy

Don't know if it's been posted yet (I'd be shocked if it wasn't already posted)

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

willowthewisp

Richie

willowthewisp

https://youtu.be/XgDpJcqCWIs

riffmongous

^^^^ both classics

cnoc

Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains - The Foggy Dew - YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaS3vaNUYgs

julyjane

willowthewisp wrote: »

https://youtu.be/XgDpJcqCWIs

an old school friend of mine had a boyfriend who used to sing that with an additional verse - "is your mother a country woman?"

I don't know if he made it up or it was the banned verse from the actual song like Saturday and Sunday of 7 drunken nights

Charles Babbage

Teddy Bears Picnic by Jimmy Kennedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP67lKbYbNs