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"Arthur McBride" – an anti-recruiting song from Donegal, probably originating during the 17th century. [1]"The Recruiting Sergeant" – song (to the tune of "The Peeler and the Goat") from the time of World War 1, popular among the Irish Volunteers of that period, written by Séamus O'Farrell in 1915, recorded by The Pogues.
The song Silent O Moyle, Be The Roar of Thy Water (the song of Fionnuala) from Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, tells the story of the children of Lir. [9] Irish composer Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882–1957) based his opera Srúth na Maoile (1923) on the legend of the children of Lir. [10]
The Rose, [23] The Knight, [24] and The Faery Host [25] are paintings by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law depicting various parts of the Tam Lin legend. The Choose Your Own Adventure book Enchanted Kingdom has an ending in which the reader/player's character is rescued from the fairies by a girl whom the character has befriended, who has to hold onto the ...
The Children of Lir, a cantata in the Irish language for orchestra, choir and soloists by Patrick Cassidy; Children of Lir, a song on the album Folk-Lore by folk metal-band Cruachan; The Children of Lir, symphonic poem composed by Hamilton Harty; The Children of Lir, a suite for orchestra, with narrator, by Robert Lamb
"Molly Malone" (also known as "Cockles and Mussels" or "In Dublin's Fair City") is a song set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become its unofficial anthem.. A statue representing Molly Malone was unveiled on Grafton Street by then Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ben Briscoe, during the 1988 Dublin Millennium celebrations, when 13 June was declared to be Molly Malone Day.
"McCafferty" (Roud 1148) is an Irish folk ballad about British Army Private Patrick McCaffrey, executed in 1862 for the "fragging" of two officers. [1] It is particularly popular in Ireland, where Pte. McCaffrey came from, and was recorded by The Dubliners. In the British Army it was allegedly a court martial offence to sing the song, but that ...
After the youth completes his confession, the officer reveals himself and proceeds to arrest the youth and take him away to be executed. McBurney's version is the subject of English-Canadian artist Charlotte Schreiber's painting The Croppy Boy (The Confession of an Irish Patriot), now on display in the National Gallery of Canada.
The play (along with Irish legend in general) enjoyed a vogue amongst composers in the earlier part of the 20th century [3] and many of them set Deirdre of the Sorrows to music. The first was Italo-Irish composer Michele Esposito in the cantata for soloists, mixed chorus and orchestra, Deirdre (1902) on a text by Thomas William Rolleston.