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  2. List of Irish ballads - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. The Fields of Athenry - Wikipedia

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    "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.

  4. The 30 best Irish songs to sing at the pub this St ... - AOL

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    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

  5. The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Wikipedia

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    "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce (1836–1883), a Limerick-born poet and professor of English literature.The song is written from the perspective of a doomed young Wexford rebel who is about to sacrifice his relationship with his loved one and plunge into the cauldron of violence associated with the 1798 rebellion in Ireland. [1]

  6. The Boys of the Old Brigade - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. These 12 artists and songs form a deep dive into Irish rock ...

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    Irish home: Dublin The band's run: 2014-present What you'll hear: Crashing through 2020's "A Hero's Death," this is a slice of perfectly jittery, drum-and-bass-heavy power-pop that lives somewhere ...

  8. Sean-nós singing - Wikipedia

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    The songs are regulated instead by a "pulse" (cuisle) that corresponds to the poetic meter of the song. [29] Sean-nós singers tend to use very long extended phrases, particularly in sad songs, with a tendency to draw breath after a conjunction or linking words rather than at the end of a phrase. [3]: 74

  9. Rocky Road to Dublin - Wikipedia

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    Rocky Road to Dublin" is a 19th-century Irish song written by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool, England, from his home in Tuam, Ireland. Originally popularized by Harry Clifton, it has since been performed extensively and become a standard of Irish folk music. The song is also often performed ...