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The song (also sometimes known as Down the Glen) has been performed and recorded by many Irish traditional groups, including The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, The Dubliners, The Chieftains, Shane MacGowan and The Wolfe Tones among others. The verse that begins "Oh the night fell black and the rifles' crack" is almost always omitted in ...
The song is also sung in the first episode of the BBC series Days of Hope, written by Jim Allen and directed by Ken Loach. An Irish barmaid is forced to sing after being sexually harassed by British soldiers and impresses them with her song. A version of the song (Down by the Glenside) appears on Brigid Mae Power's 2023 album Dream from the ...
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this collection of traditional and contemporary Irish songs. Find all the classics including "Danny Boy" and "Molly Malone." The 30 best Irish songs to sing at the ...
The Glen of Aherlow (also known as Patrick Sheehan) is a traditional Irish song which originated as a ballad written by Irish republican Charles Joseph Kickham (1828–1882). It was first printed in The Kilkenny Journal , Kilkenny , on 7 October 1857, the writer using the pseudonym “Darby Ryan, Junior.” [ 1 ]
This following is a list of one-hit wonders in Ireland, showing Irish musical acts who only managed to score one top twenty hit in the Irish singles chart. [1] [2] Many of the one hit wonders in the UK and the United States were also one hit wonders in Ireland, but are not listed here.
When we mourn, we wrap ourselves in the warm blanket of their soothing sounds.” [1]. Writing in the Irish Examiner, Simon Price noted "the shift from live concerts to online streaming brought about by the pandemic has given audiences and artists an opportunity to enjoy high-quality original Irish music presented from national parks, stately ...
[2] [4] His Ballyvourney collection featured as numbers 23–25 of the Journal of the Folk Song Society, 1920–21. [3] This collection consists of almost a hundred songs, with original texts, prose translations and annotations, constituting incomparably the finest collection published in our time of Irish songs noted from oral tradition.
On 22 April 2012, Gleann Nimhe – The Poison Glen received a six-star album review (out of 10) from PopMatters's music critic John L. Murphy, stating: «Shifting somewhat away from its Narada-label leanings of a decade back into New Age-inflected stylings, this Compass Records release offers a more traditional delivery of tunes, reliable in their familiar conjuring of their Northwestern Irish ...