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"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.
Kevin Barry" is a popular Irish rebel song recounting the death of Kevin Barry, a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who was hanged on 1 November 1920. He was 18 years old at the time. He is one of a group of IRA members executed in 1920–21 collectively known as The Forgotten Ten.
The song describes a veteran of the Easter Rising telling a young man about his old comrades in the Irish Republican Army. Each chorus ends with the Irish language phrase "a ghrá mo chroí (love of my heart), I long to see, the Boys of the Old Brigade". [2] [3] Oh, father why are you so sad On this bright Easter morn' When Irish men are proud ...
The Irish Rovers pay tribute to ol' Seth Davy, a sad puppeteer who makes dolls dance in an old crate on the corner of Beggars Bush, in this 1968 folk song. 'Lift the Wings' by Bill Whelan
"The Fields of Athenry" is a song written in 1979 by Pete St. John in the style of an Irish folk ballad. Set during the Great Famine of the 1840s, the lyrics feature a fictional man from near Athenry in County Galway, who stole food for his starving family and has been sentenced to transportation to the Australian penal colony at Botany Bay.
2014 The song appears in a scene of episode 2.6 of British period drama Mr Selfridge performed by Alfie Boe. The song is also heard in Series 2 Episode 1 of period crime drama Peaky Blinders, this time performed by Johnny Cash. 2017 Emmet Cahill, an Irish tenor, released the song in his solo 2017 album Ireland [25] while part of the band Celtic ...
The North Carolina band Red Clay Ramblers featured the song on their 1981 album Hard Times. Recorded by Irish singer Mary Black on her 1984 album Collected. Akiko Yano sings this song on her 1989 album "Welcome Back". On Syd Straw's 1989 debut album Surprise, Straw and X frontman and solo artist John Doe recorded a version of the song.
No list of sad country songs would be complete without Hank Williams, who really outdid himself with this all-timer. Even if you’ve never heard a lonesome whip-poor-will, Hank will make you feel ...