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"Kilkelly, Ireland" is a contemporary ballad composed by American songwriter Peter Jones. It tells the story of an Irish family whose son emigrated to America, via a series of letters sent from the father back in Kilkelly. It has five stanzas, covering the period from 1860 to 1892.
"Wild Cats of Kilkenny" is an instrumental track on The Pogues' 1985 album Rum Sodomy & the Lash, in which "two themes meld for a time before dueling and coming apart; all amid a series of feline-esque shrieks". [153] The Kilkenny Cats alternative rock group feature in Athens, GA: Inside/Out, a 1987 documentary about the Athens music scene. [154]
Kilkenny is the anglicised version of the Irish Cill Chainnigh, meaning Cell/Church of Cainneach or Canice. [2] This relates to a church built in honour of St. Canice, an Ulsterman, on the hill now containing St. Canice's Cathedral and the round tower.
Kilmovee (Irish: Cill Mobhí, meaning 'Church of Mobhí') is a village and civil parish in County Mayo, Ireland. It is a mainly rural parish on the R325 road, midway between Kilkelly and Ballaghaderreen. In March 2004, the Cois Tine Heritage Centre was opened and since then it has become a cultural centre for the people of the area.
Kilkelly (Irish: Cill Cheallaigh, meaning 'church of Cellach' [2]) is a small village in Kilmovee civil parish, County Mayo, Ireland. It is just south of Ireland West Airport on the N17 , a national primary road running between Galway and Sligo.
The song was the first song recorded and released by the revamped Dexys Midnight Runners' lineup, which added fiddle players Helen O'Hara, Steve Brennan and Roger MacDuff and bassist Giorgio Kilkenny. [3] [4] [5] Reflecting the revised lineup, the song features mandolins and violins rather than the horn fanfares featured in the group's earlier ...
John Locke (1847–1889) was an Irish writer and Fenian activist, exiled to the United States, [1] and most famous for writing "Dawn on the Irish Coast", also known as "The Exiles Return, or Morning on the Irish coast".
MacCarthy's lyrics and the meanings of his songs are widely debated. In particular, his most famous composition, 'Ride On', is often thought to be a particularly complex song, although MacCarthy has always said it is simply a song about dying and the inevitability of it happening, no matter what happens in life.