Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The title of the air came from the name of County Londonderry, and was collected by Jane Ross of Limavady in the county.. Ross submitted the tune to music collector George Petrie, and it was then published by the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland in the 1855 book The Ancient Music of Ireland, which Petrie edited. [1]
(d) Military band (e) Two pianos, four hands 1907–47 1911 1914 1918 1921 1948 [5] [19] "My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone" OEPM (a) Solo piano (b) Violin, cello and piano (c) Strings, flute, English horn 1912 1912 1912 1912 [5] [30] "The Nightingale and the Two Sisters" DFMS 10 Wind band 1923–30 1931 Other versions in Danish Folksong Suite ...
Jane Ross was born in or near Limavady, County Londonderry on 5 August 1810. She was the eldest of the four daughters and two sons of John Ross (1781–1830) and his second wife Jane (née Ogilby). She was the eldest of the four daughters and two sons of John Ross (1781–1830) and his second wife Jane (née Ogilby).
A song in Newcastle-upon-Tyne marking the 1821 coronation of George IV specifies its tune as "Arthur McBride". [10] "The Bold Tenant Farmer" has a similar tune which is sometimes used. [11] [12] Thomas Ainge Devyr (1805–1887), an Irish Chartist who emigrated to America in 1840, in his 1882 memoir recalled the song from his youth in County ...
"Arthur McBride" – an anti-recruiting song from Donegal, probably originating during the 17th century. [1]"The Recruiting Sergeant" – song (to the tune of "The Peeler and the Goat") from the time of World War 1, popular among the Irish Volunteers of that period, written by Séamus O'Farrell in 1915, recorded by The Pogues.
"The Crimson Banner" is a traditional Irish song, also known as "The Eighteenth of December" and "No Surrender!". [3] Written by William Blacker in 1818, it is part of the Protestant Loyalist tradition. [4] The song celebrates the closing of the gates of the Ulster city of Derry to the approaching Jacobite Irish Army on 18 December 1688.
Back Home in Derry" is an Irish rebel song written by Bobby Sands while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The song has been covered by multiple artists, most notably by Christy Moore in his 1984 album Ride On , who sang it to a melody inspired by Gordon Lightfoot 's famous 1976 song " The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald .
The Helicopter Song; Irish Citizen Army; about the organisation; Irish Volunteers; about the organisation; Join the British Army; My Little Armalite; The Men Behind the Wire; Roll of Honour; Sunday Bloody Sunday (by John Lennon and Yoko Ono — the U2 song of the same name is "not a rebel song") Tiocfaidh ár lá (a.k.a. SAM song)) You'll Never ...