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Pages in category "Songs about The Troubles (Northern Ireland)" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Government of Ireland Act 1920 partitioned the island of Ireland into two separate jurisdictions, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, both devolved regions of the United Kingdom. This partition of Ireland was confirmed when the Parliament of Northern Ireland exercised its right in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 to opt ...
On 5 October 1962, Elvis Presley's "She's Not You" was declared Ireland's first number one. This is a list of number-one songs as recorded by IRMA’s Top 50 Singles chart — a weekly national survey of popular songs in Ireland. It is compiled by the IRMA from single sales. The lists below show the songs that have topped the chart.
Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison OBE (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician whose recording career started in the 1960s. Morrison's albums have performed well in the UK and Ireland, with more than 40 reaching the UK top 40, as well as internationally, including in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
Song Artist Ref. 2 January "Two Little Boys" Rolf Harris: 9 January 16 January 23 January 30 January 6 February "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" Edison Lighthouse: 13 February 20 February 27 February 6 March "Wanderin' Star" Lee Marvin: 13 March 20 March "All Kinds of Everything" Dana: 27 March 3 April 10 April 17 April 24 April 1 May 8 ...
The Beatles released 18 of the best-selling songs of the 1960s. A single is a type of music release defined by the British Official Charts Company (OCC) as having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes. On 31 May 2010, a retrospective record chart was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 that listed the 60 biggest-selling singles in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. The ...
The 1983 U2 album War includes the song "Sunday Bloody Sunday", a lament for the Northern Ireland troubles whose title alludes to the 1972 Bloody Sunday shooting of Catholic demonstrators by British soldiers. In concert, Bono began introducing the song with the disclaimer "this song is not a rebel song". [6]
Northern Ireland's first civil rights march was held. Many more marches would be held over the following year. Loyalists attacked some of the marches and organized counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned. [7] 5 October A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march was to take place in Derry.