Best Irish songs of all time?

[DanielF 138]

What do you think are some of the best Irish songs of all time?

 

I was reminded recently of how good a couple of the Cranberries songs are, and thought it would be good to unearth a few more ones I didn't know of, had forgotten about, or did not know the name of.

 

Here's a few of the Cranberries songs.

 

Zombie - The Cranberries

 

Dreams - The Cranberries

 

and a classic from Mary Black, that brings me back..

 

Mary Black - A Woman's Heart

[Keydeck 9,248]

The late great Luke Kelly in 1974 performing Scorn Not His Simplicity. Gets me every time.

 

"See him stare, not recognising the kind face that only yesterday he loved

The loving face, of a mother who can't understand what she's been guilty of"

 

The Undertones with their seminal track Teenage Kicks.

 

The Stunning with Brewing Up A Storm

 

Horslips with An Dearg Doom immortalised during Italia 90.

 

Lizzy with Dancing In The Moonlight

 

The more recent Falling Slowly from Glenn Hansard & Marketa Irglova

 

That'll do for the moment.

[Steven192 272]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlDOOVZ1HQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlDOOVZ1HQ

 

But then again I would think that.

[Orla_inka 4,637]

I have got to include "Don't Go" by the Hothouse Flowers. Not only do I think the song is great, but also, my cousin plays with them.

 

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=f2XN8vd4gRw

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For me Shane MacGowan is one of the best songwriters ever and this is one of his best IMO, even though it's about London and not Ireland.

 

 

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The Sash my Father wore

 

Get's the hairs on the back of my neck standing up everytime I hear it.

 

Top tune for a Sash-Up!

[Orla_inka 4,637]

Here is another one from the Hothouse Flowers. A song in Irish: Sí do mhamo í. Love it!!!

 

http://www.youtube.c...rom=PL&index=39

[Smilin_Irish 27]

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=jzYzVMcgWhg

[Orla_inka 4,637]

I received Horslips' first album "Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part" for Christmas in 1972. The cover was in the shape of a concertina. (It would be worth masses now - I don't know where it is).

 

Up to that year I couldn't stand Irish music. It was all harpy, banjoy and diddelei music. For me this changed with the likes of Thin Lizzy and Horslips. They put a bit of rock and pizazz into the music. It used to be played in the discos ...

 

These are my favourites from the album:

 

The Shamrock Shore.

 

Dance to yer Daddy. (As kids, we used to sing this as a nursery rhyme. I loved Horslip's version)

 

The Musical Priest.

 

Aww becoming nostalgic ....

[robinson100 12,854]

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlDOOVZ1HQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlDOOVZ1HQ

 

- yes, also one of my favourites Steven 192!

 

I also love 7 Drunken Nights from the Dubliners:

 

 

 

- there is also a cartoon that goes along with the song, but for some reason it´s recently been blocked on Youtube :-(

[Keefy 3,577]

Seems to be a massive and ongoing dispute as to whether Wild Mountain Thyme (aka Will ye go, lassie go) is Scottish or Irish. Terrific and timeless song, nonetheless, IMHO.

[Orla_inka 4,637]

You know "Monto" by the Dubliners?

 

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9GBn3EG2Mw&feature=related

 

(no mention yet of U2? Enya? Sinead? What's wrong with you people? )

[Orla_inka 4,637]

 

The late great Luke Kelly in 1974 performing Scorn Not His Simplicity. Gets me every time.

 

I had heard this song before, but I had never really "listened" to it and it has moved me.

I looked it up and this is what I found about it.

 

 

Phil Coulter's first son was born with Down's Syndrome, several months later he wrote the song Scorn not his Simplicity about his experiences with his son's disorder. He first played the song to Luke Kelly. Because of the personal essence of the song Luke Kelly felt that the song should not be sung except for special occasions, and not on every performance.

 

[Orla_inka 4,637]

I will try to stop hogging ...

The Snows They Melt The Soonest is a beautiful song. Sung by one of my favourite singers, Cara Dillon, it is even more beautiful.

 

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

 

 

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Anything with the late great Ronnie Drew or Banjo Barney McKenna From Donnycarney. But especially

 

St. Patricks Cathedral

 

or John Sheehans Marino Waltz and as a Celtic fan of course The fields of Athenry

 

And as every year for the last 40, last date of the german tour is the first Saturday in december, in HH. Gaun yersels!

 

Oops almost forgot - the fenian record player by the Wolftones

[corkonian 3]

What about some of the fantastic bands that have come out of Ireland recently?

 

Like Bell X1 for example. Such a great band.

 

One of my fav songs- Next To You

[Keefy 3,577]

 

 

The Snows They Melt The Soonest is a beautiful song. Sung by one of my favourite singers, Cara Dillon, it is even more beautiful.

 

Beautiful is the word. Goes straight to the heart.

 

My background is Celtic/Scandinavian - my ancestors were from the Western Isles of Scotland and although I live in Berlin, I still have a spiritual longing for the wild mountains and glens of Europe's Far West. The place where the mountains meet the Great Ocean and the breakers crash against the rocky shores.

 

Jesus, no more single malt tonight, I swear :-)

 

But keep up the good work, you people :)

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Whiskey in the Jar

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"Dirty Old Town" by the Pogues... Easy to find you youtube..