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The Shoals of Herring" (Roud 13642) is a ballad, written by Ewan MacColl for the third of the original eight BBC Radio ballads [1] Singing the Fishing, which was first broadcast on August 16, 1960. [2] Ewan MacColl writes that the song was based on the life of Sam Larner, a fisherman and traditional singer from Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, England.
The Bonnie Earl of Moray, anonymous "vendetta portrait" of the murdered James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, 1592. " The Bonnie Earl o' Moray " (Child 181, [1] Roud 334 [2]) is a popular Scottish ballad, which may date from as early as the 17th century. [3]
Andrew Lang. About 1876, the Scottish poet and folklorist Andrew Lang wrote a poem based on the song titled "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond". [7][8] The title sometimes has the date "1746" appended [9][10] —the year of the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's rebellion and the hanging of some of his captured supporters. Lang's poem begins.
Inside Llewyn Davis is the soundtrack of music from the 2013 American film of the same name, written, directed and produced by the Coen brothers and starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund and Justin Timberlake. With the film set in New York City during the 1960s, the soundtrack, produced by T Bone Burnett, uses folk ...
The Opies have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early versions, there are ...
Further Along. (1996) Original Dubliners is an album by The Dubliners. The album charted at No.14 in the Irish Album Chart in its 2011 re-release. In December 2013 the album re-issued into the charts at No.39. [ 1] The double disc features EMI albums Seven Drunken Nights (a.k.a. A Drop of the Hard Stuff ), Seven Deadly Sins (a.k.a.
The older one pushes the younger in and refuses to pull her out again; generally the lyrics explicitly state her intent to drown her younger sister. Her motive, when included in the lyrics, is sexual jealousy – in some variants, the sisters are being two-timed by a suitor; in others, the elder sister's affections are not encouraged by the ...
More of the Hard Stuff is the second studio album by The Dubliners, originally released in 1967. [ 3 ] The line-up consists of Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna, Ciarán Bourke and John Sheahan. True to its title, five of the songs concern hard drinking. One of the songs was written by Brendan Behan, another by his brother Dominic.