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"The Banks of the Bann" – a broadside ballad to the melody of the Irish hymn "Be Thou My Vision". The hymn ("Bí Thusa 'mo Shúile") was translated from Old Irish into English by Mary Elizabeth Byrne, in Ériu (the journal of the School of Irish Learning), in 1905. The English text was first versified by Eleanor Hull, in 1912. The ballad is ...
Pages in category "Irish ballads" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Irish ballads (6 P) Ballads of the Irish ... Pages in category "Irish folk songs" The following 154 pages are in this category, out of 154 total. ... The Rare Old ...
This Irish ballad gets spirited update in this 2009 version recorded by the High Kings. The traditional tune is about a young man who becomes infatuated with a fair colleen named Rosie, otherwise ...
"Dublin in the Rare Old Times" - 1980s song about Dublin before the 1960s (composer: Pete St. John) [26] "Grace" - written in 1985 by Frank and Seán O'Meara about Grace Gifford; recorded by Jim McCann, Anthony Kearns, the Wolfe Tones and others. "My Dublin Bay" - composed by Waterford-born May O'Higgins. "Old Dublin Town" by Pete St. John
"The Bard of Armagh" is an Irish ballad. It is often attributed to Patrick Donnelly.He was made Bishop of Dromore in 1697, the same year as the enactment of the 1697 Banishment Act which was intended to clear out all Roman Catholic clergy from Ireland.
The tune appears as number 1425 in George Petrie's The Complete Collection of Irish Music (1855) under the title Ó ro! 'sé do ḃeaṫa a ḃaile (modern script: Ó ro! 'sé do bheatha a bhaile) and is marked "Ancient clan march". It can also be found at number 983 (also marked "Ancient Clan March") and as a fragment at number 1056, titled ...
"The Croppy Boy" (Roud 1030) is an Irish sentimental ballad set during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 which depicts the fate of a fictional Society of United Irishmen rebel, who were also known as croppies. Versions of the ballad first appeared shortly after the rebellion's suppression, being sung by street peddlers in Ireland.