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"Lipstick" is a song by Irish pop duo Jedward. It is written by Danish songwriters Lars Jensen and Martin Larsson and British lyricist Dan Priddy. It is Jedward's third single and the first song released from their second studio album, Victory and is best known as Ireland's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 held in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Irelande Douze Pointe" (transl. Ireland Twelve Points) is a 2008 novelty song by Irish puppet act Dustin the Turkey, played by John Morrison. The song was chosen to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 after winning Eurosong 2008 , Ireland's national final for that year's Eurovision Song Contest . [ 1 ]
"The Voice" is a song recorded by Irish singer and composer Eimear Quinn with music composed and lyrics written by Brendan Graham. It represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 held in Oslo, resulting an unprecedented fourth win in five consecutive years for a country in the contest, being Ireland's seventh overall win, and its last win to date.
"Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There" is a popular song with the music composition by Fred Fisher and lyrics done by Joseph McCarthy and Howard Johnson, published in 1916. A version of the song recorded by Charles W. Harrison in 1916 is considered to have been a #1 hit in its day. [1] The song was also popular in Britain in 1916.
"The Enniskillen Dragoon" (Roud 2185; [1] [2] also called "Enniskillen Dragoon" or "The Enniskillen Dragoons") is an Irish folk song associated with the Inniskilling Dragoons, a British Army regiment based at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in what is now Northern Ireland. The air was used as the regiment's signature quick march. [3]
The area under English rule and law grew and shrank over time, and reached its greatest extent in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The lordship then went into decline, brought on by its invasion by Scotland in 1315–1318, the Great Famine of 1315–1317, and the Black Death of the 1340s.
Also mentioned in the song are the towns of Athlone and Glassan, The Three Jolly Pigeons (a pub on the Athlone–Ballymahon road) and the River Shannon. [4] The song is from the point of view of a member of the Irish diaspora, working in construction in a foreign land and longing to return home. [5] The Three Jolly Pigeons pub, located on the ...
The song offers a satirical view of the life and work of the Irish labourers of the times and as such proved popular. [ 5 ] Some sources suggest that the words of the song were derived from an earlier poem or poems by Irish labourer Martin Henry, [ 1 ] with the song's arrangement attributed to Dominic Behan . [ 1 ]