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Heh AHers, What's your favourite Irish Ballad?

  • 19-04-2011 03:15AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭


    I like Raglan Road, done by Sinead O'Connor. It's probably the only thing that she's done that is still talking to her.:pac:

    Ouch, joking. But seriously, boys and girls,; what's your favourite and who's version?

    Btw mods, I hope ye won't move this to the music forum, I think it's a pretty good universal theme, and something that would be a pub conversation.

    And that's what defines AH. Something y'might talk about in the pub.

    I like dogs but it'll be a cold day in hell before I'll discuss their welfare in the animals&pets forum.

    Choco


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    Luke Kelly's version of The Auld Triangle.


    Also IBTL..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Colilfc




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,158 ✭✭✭✭Degag




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    The National Anthem...
    Played and sung at the end every good pub session...


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    the green fields of france, is a good one

    (also caledonia, and will ye go lassie go, but it seems they're scottish)


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    UNF UNF UNF UNF!

    My lovely horse is the winner.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    where's me jumper!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    The Ballad of Brummie Tom

    It's an epic yet melancholic tale of a young lad trying to get his leg over.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭Pdfile




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    No Irish musician better than Luke Kelly.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭AskMyChocolate


    Heh. Thanks everyone. Some absolute crackers in there. I hope I've thankd everyone. Some of th keys on me keyboard are giving up the ghost. Aah but shur fcuk them.

    Btw, what's with the ibtl? Why would this thread be locked?:confused:


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    the green fields of france, is a good one


    I suppose that it's an Irish song seeing as it was made famous by an Irish band but I always believed it to be Scottish in origin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Grace. Love that song!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    Rattlin Bog -But i sing it faster :D
    http://youtu.be/xnv9GB8xvrw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Damn work filters, can't see the vids.

    Love any of Thom Moores songs regalrdeless who sings them (Carolina Rua, Saw You Running, The Scholar) biased probably as he wrote a lot of Sligo songs.

    Also love singing Johnny Jump Up when I'm on a Bulmers trip :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Bunclody.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 msdemena


    Joe McDonnell by the Woletones or the H block song.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    This, always sing it at a good ould fashioned sing song:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    4 Green Fields is brilliant too, I hope this is the correct video of the young lad singing it, brilliant version (I'm in work so can't access YouTube just have to rely on google)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    it's not particularly original :pac: but mine has to be the fields of athenry.

    brilliant uniquely irish lyrics that perfectly capture the national obession - our oppression by the english and the famine. story of a man having to leave his family he was only trying to feed and the anguish his wife feels at his deportation. and the hope at the end as she prays for him in botany bay.

    i know it's naff at this stage - but sometimes you forget how brilliant it actually is because it's heard so much. the rousing chorus makes a pub session and a football match all the better.

    ...and the green field of france. absolutely...f'ucking...amazing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    'By the hush me boys' or 'the maid of cabra' west sung by Frank Harte, well anything sung by frank harte.

    listening to christy moore's version of 'well below the valley' yesterday was epic. Check out 'fionnghuala' by the Bothy band also

    Percey Ffrench came up with some classic tunes as well. Tullinahaw sung by my friend Dick Hogan is amazing.


    sorry I can't link to youtube from work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    it's not particularly original :pac: but mine has to be the fields of athenry.

    brilliant uniquely irish lyrics that perfectly capture the national obession - our oppression by the english and the famine. story of a man having to leave his family he was only trying to feed and the anguish his wife feels at his deportation. and the hope at the end as she prays for him in botany bay.

    i know it's naff at this stage - but sometimes you forget how brilliant it actually is because it's heard so much. the rousing chorus makes a pub session and a football match all the better.

    ...and the green field of france. absolutely...f'ucking...amazing

    It's a great song when sung properly by the likes of Paddy Reilly, however the tits who have added the "Hey Baby let the free birds fly", "Sinn Fein", "IRA" parts to it have utterly destroyed a brilliant song. I once stopped singing it at a party when someone added them, only a-holes sing that part of it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus




    Carrickfergus is a wonderful song, I've seen bustling, rowdy pub go silent when someone starts playing it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    Has to be the epic "The Ballad of Little Musgrave" by Planxty

    Scorn not his simplicity sung by Luke Kelly and written by Phil Coulter. George Murphy doesn't do a bad version of it either.

    Paddy's Lament by Sinead O'Connor

    Ordinary Man by Christy for the times we live in.

    Bright Blue Rose by Jimmy McCarthy


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