Your favourite/The best Irish song?

Fourteen · 18-01-2012 04:16AM #1

I know this isn't the music forum, but I posted here to get the average person's opinion, not necessarily people who are involved in music themselves, plus the opinion of AH is pretty much fact to be fair.

By Irish, I mean written and performed by someone Irish, not traditional Irish music.

WindSock · 18-01-2012 04:19AM

shrewdness · 18-01-2012 04:22AM

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

Godsentme · 18-01-2012 04:25AM

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GLaDOS · 18-01-2012 04:27AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZltd_nz2ag

Rothko · 18-01-2012 04:33AM

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

policarp · 18-01-2012 05:36AM

Scorn not his simplicity.
Written by Phil Coulter and sung by the late Luke Kelly.

vgv · 18-01-2012 06:00AM

Dont know if I would call this the greatest ever but I think this is fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HEVYU46giQ

Potential-Monke · 18-01-2012 06:03AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEssgMQ1O_k

RichieC · 18-01-2012 06:04AM

Fitzcarraldo by the frames. They get fair stick round here for an odd reaspo n..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy5AKZxmXlM

celtictiger32 · 18-01-2012 06:12AM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEssgMQ1O_k

^^^did he really sing that??? (brendan grace)

was that bryan mcfaddens tv debut as the lollipop man in that vid ( 0:34)

fair play to that youngfella gettin his mot down to dollymount beach at that age:D

Potential-Monke · 18-01-2012 06:13AM

celtictiger32 wrote: »

^^^did he really sing that??? (brendan grace)

He did indeed.

Temptamperu · 18-01-2012 06:13AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUv-4dNX6Jw

celtictiger32 · 18-01-2012 06:16AM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

He did indeed.

cool never new that, your after reminding me of another song i liked that he did when i was a kid - the dutchman

Mr.Biscuits · 18-01-2012 06:37AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ech6pZoBJ4

travelledpengy · 18-01-2012 06:57AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq4kRygOpXU

The Scientician · 18-01-2012 07:02AM

travelledpengy wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq4kRygOpXU

That was written by a Scotsman.

Another Whipping Boy one I reckon is among the greatest Irish pop/rock songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mifMjKT4Tl0

borabora · 18-01-2012 07:15AM

Deedsie · 18-01-2012 07:17AM

The Scientician wrote: »

That was written by a Scotsman.

I don't think the writer of a song for Ireland was scottish.

later12 · 18-01-2012 07:23AM

As I leave behind Neidin, by Jimmy McCarthy, performed by Mary Black.

I think it's one of the loveliest songs in the Irish anthology of music. Whenever I hear it,it takes me back to rural Ireland, weddings, childhood, village pub bands... some of the nicest features of Irish life... but is also tinged with rather a sweet dolefulness, which only adds to its beauty. Can't find the clip,but it was also featured on that terribly sad episode of Reeling In The Years, with the young people boarding buses to go to the USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-7IK5GjIgk

The Scientician · 18-01-2012 07:29AM

Deedsie wrote: »

I don't think the writer of a song for Ireland was scottish.

Oops you're right. It was an English couple, June and Phil Colclough. Could have sworn it was a Scotsman!

desertcircus · 18-01-2012 09:12AM

Fourteen wrote: »

I know this isn't the music forum, but I posted here to get the average person's opinion, not necessarily people who are involved in music themselves, plus the opinion of AH is pretty much fact to be fair.

By Irish, I mean written and performed by someone Irish, not traditional Irish music.

This is not a matter of opinion. Teenage Kicks is the greatest Irish song ever written. You might as well try to refute the theory of gravity as claim any other song deserves the crown.