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Favourite Irish Folk Songs.

Discussion in 'TalkCeltic Pub' started by Sean Daleer, Nov 30, 2013.

Discuss Favourite Irish Folk Songs. in the TalkCeltic Pub area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. bonzo

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjYeC95Msz4"]Homes of Donegal - Paul Brady, Glen Hansard, Mundy, Moya Brennan & Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh - YouTube[/ame]
     
  2. edward.bhoy

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXyv1TW4R4A"]The Wolfe Tones - The Streets Of New York - YouTube[/ame]
     
  3. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0zBlHlnR4Y"]The Rising of the Moon - Irish folk song - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuafmLvoJow"]Luke Kelly Raglan Road - YouTube[/ame]
     
  5. bonzo

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__aGxQ1Yqg0&list=UUkONJoyB1gogGb7JR6JtnXA"]Song for Ireland - YouTube[/ame]
     
  6. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wg7WueN3rc"]Danny Boy Ireland - By Colin O'Roarty - irish folk song - YouTube[/ame]
     
  7. Jinky.

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSDzOKPvedc"]Luke Kelly: Dirty Old Town (1976) - YouTube[/ame]
     
  8. mygirlmaria

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    you'll never walk alone
    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_klil_eOEY"]Clannad & Bono - In A Lifetime (1985) - YouTube[/ame]
     
  9. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMMgIqW9vso"]Dirty old town - The Pogues - YouTube[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHDX9qb2-BQ"]The Irish Rover - YouTube[/ame]
     
  10. Gabriel Beidh an lá linn Gold Member

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    "I had fine strong sons, who fought to save my jewels They fought and they died, and that was my grief said she"

    There was rebellion in Ireland long before the IRA. Would not Boolavogue, The Croppy Boy, The Rising of the Moon, Irish Soldier Laddie etc not be rebel songs.

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9WWliz_zg"]youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9WWliz_zg[/ame]
     
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  11. StPauli1916 Gold Member Gold Member

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvOcyRqNfBI"]19 City Of Chicago Christy Moore YouTube - YouTube[/ame]
     
  12. StPauli1916 Gold Member Gold Member

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8XcDlgkI3k"]Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes - YouTube[/ame]
     
  13. StPauli1916 Gold Member Gold Member

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3MKMF-qIZk"]the pogues - rainy night in soho - YouTube[/ame]
     
  14. MairtinH2

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    Can't go wrong with a bit of Damien Dempsey

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz3YxkATSUI"]Damien Dempsey - Ghosts Of Overdoses[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO8OckwyJwE"]Damien Dempsey - Celtic Tiger[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pae6bNjltdA"]Damien Dempsey - Apple Of My Eye[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKp5v0B3IwE"]Damien Dempsey- Colony[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWQeRX-0Ssg"]Damien Dempsey - Patience[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UIzkN64NGg"]Damien Dempsey - Negative Vibes[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RCH08GkLE0"]Damien Dempsey - Your pretty smile[/ame]
     
  15. MairtinH2

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    Or the Wakes

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ktr4E0mhg"]No Irish Need Apply - The Wakes[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_-u_cmEWqU"]Cinderella Story - The Wakes[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9afKwyNqxUA"]From The Gutter To The Whitehouse - The Wakes[/ame]

    Saw Doctors aren't the worse either
    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ver0lMNMgw"]The Saw Doctors - To Win Just Once[/ame]

    To be brutally honest about 90% of Irish folk songs have some politics behind them, so to ask for non-political Irish Folk songs is like asking for hot Ice Cream!
     
  16. MairtinH2

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    These two are political but probably two of my most favourite songs!

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWxiTlsqP84"]Athenrye - DeValera[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2VcE2qCVgI"]The Wolfe Tones - Ireland Unfree[/ame]

    About how people had been * over after fighting in the Easter Rising
     
  17. tits-oot!

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    fields of athenry
    [ame]http://youtu.be/wlKG79hC2Wo[/ame]




    Love this.:shamrock:
     
  18. daveybhoy1

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  19. North

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    Taking on board Gabriel's earlier point I propose the distinction should be that songs that express the Irish people's history of persecution, oppression, etc., through lamentations such as Four Green Fields or No Irish Need Apply are okay, but those that directly glorify armed insurrections, groups, or persons like the IRB or Billy Reid or Henry Joy would be out-right rebel.

    And don't mistake my expression of the former song styles as being "okay" to mean I have anything against the latter. I just mean for the purposes of this thread.

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsOA-5H_L2g"]Kilkelly - YouTube[/ame]
     
  20. Jinky.

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    Its a Rebel song, but its one of the best Irish folk songs ever

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATucV4Ugqsw"]Boolavogue - YouTube[/ame]