A friend of my wife’s sang this at our wedding in Wicklow more than 20 years ago. Brutal. She is trained in classic Irish singing and sounded just like that. No instruments, just her voice. Could hear a pin drop. Folks from all over the world just fell silent.
I doubt you had any figures from around the world, at least no important ones, unless your wife's friend was friends with famous presidents and politicians and celebrities.
This was also in the film Patriot Games. It was used in a clever way to emphasise the impact of the previous series about the Northern Irish problems .
@@aine7173 Thats true. But the poignancy of this song is even more appreciated when one considers the backdrop. A British Cabinet minister had been assassinated in London by the IRA. So the British sent their best man (an SAS Captain who happened to be Irish ) into Belfast to find the assassin and kill him. It was how their meeting unfolded that made the song so heart wrenching.
For years I’ve loved the song ‘Saltwater’ by Chicane and had no idea the hook was a sample of this song until I was watching Patriot Games on TV one night and recognized it during the scene where the IRA assassins come to O’Donnell’s house. I immediately ran to search up this song, and boy I’m so glad I found it. What a beautiful and haunting piece of music.
Yea Nick Bracegirdle " Chicane "loved the track and wanted to play about with it, but contacted Moya Brennan asking if they fanced a re sing of the track, and the overlayed harmonies are what u hear, the rest is history,,,,,,,,,so to speak,,,,,,classic
My uncle was killed by the IRA back in the 1970s, what a waste of life the troubles have been, on both sides. How many families torn apart? Such a tragic part of history. Let's hope that peace will continue there and the rifts healed, and that the dead will rest
@@Roadmaster2006 like I said what a waste. How is it that humans can do these things to one another? Killing and raping and murdering innocent people. I've never understood it
Mooi nummer, schrijf of mail in het Nederlands zal niet veel begrijpen de spanningen in Engeland, Noord Ierland en Ierland. Ben zelf katholiek, maar in Nederland kan ik het goed vinden met anders gelovigen zo lang we respect vol omgaan met elkaar, en dat gaat goed in Nederland. Wens iedereen het allerbeste, iedereen verdiend een gelukkig leven met zijn dierbare familie en vrienden.
My mum was from County Cork and spoke Gaelic. She loved this song and it always reminds me of her and her love of the true Irish language. R.I.P Breda. Forever loved and missed. Vich noch dio lat. ❤❤xxx
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I first heard this song as a young child when my father watched Harrys game, it stxckwirh me ever since, 40 yrs later, i still play this tune.My dad passed away 9/3/24, he taught me so much. I love u dad, miss u x
Lived through the 80s near London. I never understood why someone would want to bomb my school. We had bomb threats every term. We were afraid and many reacted angrily. Too many have died on both sides. It has mostly stopped but there is a serious undercurrent. The take away... Don't pass your hatreds into the next generation. No good thing will come of it.
I live in London and have done since 1979 some of the things since then would've blown most peoples minds especially those across the Atlantic or anyone born after 1990 .Strikes , protests , wars , riots , terrorist threats almost on the daily , communism against capitalism and even eco disasters .
@@davidfelix2594 if a piece of music like this hasn't touched the very core of your being then honestly you must have no heart or soul..Because this piece of music stirs up and invokes such emotion in a person, that can't be quantified or measured respectively!!
They exist since 1970 when they were firmed and during the thde 70s they performing pure Irish old Folk acoustic/vocal....until the 1982 when they started to compose songs on their own and this was the start: they swiched to synthesiser, electronics and the Celtic genre was born !
For anyone that doesn't understand the musical connection. Harry's Game produced in the 80's about the troubles in Northern Ireland. A British Army agent is sent to the heart of Belfast to track down a gunman responsible for the killing of a British politician. It's an incredibly powerful drama. Adapted from a book by Gerald Seymour really worth a watch.
I only just found it , only prob is only free one was on you tube so I couldn't get into it so gonna buy it , but I could tell from the first 20 min this was truly the 80s and the ira with kinda defined each other
I'm Irish ,though I live in New Zealand.Met a big heavily built britt with a strong southwest english accent.he wore heavy black military boots .He had recently imigrated to New Zealand.He realisied my surname and he being careful told me he was in the british army.I asked him why he left,his reply" I was shit scared of being posted to Northern Ireland" .I mentioned Harry's Game,that was the end of the conversation.
When I first heard this song, it haunted me so much that I became obsessed to find out more about Gaelic & this mysterious Irish group 'clan as dobhar' aka Clannad. Started to collect their Albums (very difficult at the time far away in the western Caribbean), but I built it slowly starting with Anam, Banba & PastPresent. Then came 'The Last of The Mohicans' & thx to the P2P Networks, I was able to get the rare traditional gems like An Diolam, Cran Ull, Dulaman, Fuaim, Legend, Rogha, etc....I'll NEVER get tired of Clannad. After Enigma, they're my all-time favorite group!
@@darreng745 you see paddy is a good riish soul but if there is a pake or pakie in your area then thats a atn too thick to know that peac and peacai (pronounced pake and pakie) means sinful and riddled with sins ..peac being sin ..but shh they are gong around the place earwigging and being loyal to the child rapists and spying and lying for cape drink from the informer class that they are ...
I also knew that one of the twins had died but not the other. I fondly recall dropping into a pub in Dublin one night in 1994 when the World Cup was on in the USA. I started chatting about the football with another bloke propping up the bar, and after we had been chatting for a while he asked where I was from. I replied that it was from Perth, Australia and he told me that he had been there, and his band had played at the Perth Concert Hall. I asked him what was the name of his band, and he replied 'Clannad'. I proceeded to tell him how I had their album PastPresent. It turned out that the bloke was Noel Duigan. We had a good long chat over a few beers. RIP Noel - I shall always remember chatting with you that night in a Dublin pub.
@@BCOZ-nb2lo I worked on a building site back in 1993 in Berlin with a group of Irish. There were three other Irish lads on a different job on the site who kept themselves very much to themselves. The tallest had a limp, something which occurs when the feet come into contact regularly with wet sand. The smallest fellow lost the tip of his finger when a shuttering board slid down over it. One day I dropped a bag of cement from my shoulder and as it was quitting time, I left it there. Three days later I got chatting to the middle sized of the other three lads. He told me that the German foreman was a a b....d and had accused him to leaving the bag of cement out. It was the middle of winter and cement does not take kindly to temperatures below zero. He told me that he could not speak German and the only word he could use to get across his displeasure was the word 'scheisse'. He went on to tell me he was part of the group Clannad but left as there was too much internal wrangling. Don't ask me which of the twins it was but I am sorry to hear that one of them has passed on. I am sorry too that I did not own up and take the blame.
Found it! I've finally found the piece of music that has been rolling through my head for years!! I now have closure, thank you Clannad for a magnificent and emotional spiritual journey. Beautiful and haunting.
Close your eyes and simply float away. It's so ethereal. It does send you somewhere else. Very few songs have that kind of affect or impact. Agree it sends a shiver to the spine!
@@Oath_Keeper1979 Right. Then the big bearded fella gets murdered just after a session in the sack with the young and luscious Polly Walker. My intro to her. Been a fan ever since.
Whoa that’s a trip..... I love Enya and I just discovered this bunch recently I had no idea that they were sisters but I totally see the resemblance now.... wow that’s why I love checking the comments section lol
@@jonramsey6348 yes they are from a village here in Donegal, the Gaeltacht area. Clannad are amazing. The whole family play instruments. Humble and talented.
It's pure magic, both the song and the performance. I do not understand Irish Gaelic, just feel mesmerized each time I hear it. One of my all time favourites.
Oh the heart burst through my chest, when as a lad in central Ireland, hearing this song for the first time made me understand what an honour it is to be a true son of Ériú...
"Harry's Game" was broadcast once on Italy's RAI TV in the early 1980s in the late hour. No one understood the plot, although I loved this poignant melody. Ten years later, Ireland and Irish music became popular in Italy and the "Theme" was the soundtrack of an ice cream commercial.
I also commented on wanting one of Clannad songs played at my funeral and it is hard to choose as they all give me goosebumps but yesterday I managed to narrow it down lol! peace and love to you!:)
Growing up in the 1980 there was nothing like robin of Sherwood in truth we had some great television series but robin of Sherwood was simply magic in a class of its own clanned made the series so unforgettable
One of my favorite programs from 30 yrs ago! I used to savor every minute of Robinhood. I was unemployed at the time. watching it took my mind away from my situation
Time is relative. At 18, standing in the front yard of my parent's home, I imagined what it would be like to be an old man of 70. Now at 70 years old, it feels pretty damn good! I was blessed with a good life, not grand by any means, a loss of loved ones, a divorce and estrangement of my children, but in all that, I was true to my convictions. Life is what a person makes of it.
The 1st record i ever bought age 14.. Had no idea what the words meant but, fell in love with the beautiful haunting melody.. They were troubled times producing such horrors and like this song such exquisite pure beauty.... Full volume, headphones on, dark room. This WILL transcend your soul......
Imtheochaidh soir is siar I will go east and go west A dt�inig ariamh an ghealach is an ghrian From whence came the moon and the sun Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day Imtheochaidh an ghealach's an ghrian The moon and the sun will go An duine �g is a ch�il 'na dhiadh And the young man with his reputation behind him Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day Imtheochaidh a dt�inig ariamh I will go wherever he came from An duine �g is a ch�il ne dhiadh The young man with his reputation behind him Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day
This has always haunted me, and still it does....such a simple melody, yet those strange notes sustained across the changes gives the Irish pathos an other-worldly feel. A little, unassuming masterpiece....
I was wondering if it was just me lol..... I haven’t a clue what they’re saying but I hear struggle and triumph in their voices..... I’m working at my workbench with this song on repeat
This is one of the songs that haunted me, years after hearing it somewhere I no longer remember. I didn't know the name of the song or the name of the band. It crossed my mind that the female singer sounded a little like Enya which I love her music... I was shocked to know it is actually her sister! All these years passed and I got shivers down my spine hearing this masterpiece, I felt like I was in a trance of some sorte. Simply incredible!
That happened to me as well since I was a kid in the end 80’s, early 90’s. Then, not too many years ago, I thought this song could probably belong to Anette Cantor which has a really close vocal and vibrato type as Moyan. Enya is fascinating as well since I heard her in 91 for the 1st time, lauching the caribbean blue song, it was like my imaginary world in my 8 years old. I do really think genuine childrens perceive pure thing much closely than adults, so its not strange to like clannad, enya and vangelis from the beginning.
WE SHOULD ALL BE IN MOURNING WORLDWIDE FOR ALL THE VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE, TAKEN FROM US TOO SOON BY FACELESS EVIL SEEKING TO BE KNOWN. LET US TOGETHER DECLARE OUR DEDICATION: WE WILL REMEMBER THE VICTIMS, THEIR SMILES, THEIR LAUGHS, THEIR UNIQUE WAYS OF CASTING THEIR SHADOWS ON A SUMMER DAY. AND LET US ALSO MAKE ANOTHER PLEDGE: TO PROMISE THE PERPETRATORS OF SENSELESS DEATH: YOU WILL NOT BE REMEMBERED; YOUR PLACE WILL BE IN AN UNMARKED GRAVE, YOUR HISTORY EXPUNGED FROM THE ANNALS OF MEMORY AND TIME.
One of my greatest memories was being invited to meet the band for about an hour after seeing them in concert in Sheffield. They were extremely interested in my opinions of their music and the concert itself. This meeting saved my life. Driving back home down the motorway the bonnet of my car flew up and wrapped around my windscreen. I could not see a thing and slammed on my brakes and stopped dead in the middle of the motorway. If I had been a hour earlier the road would have been busy and I would not have rated my chances of getting out alive. Thank you Clannad.
Clannad. - Harry’s Game. This celtic song is hauntingly beautiful. They sing it with such sadness and devotion obviously with some religious innuendos. I’m not sure. It certainly makes an impression on me each time i hear it. Funnily enough, I can’t help but enjoy it.
Very powerful & haunting. So poignant in the context of the Irish troubles. I really thought the lyrics were, 'Open the door for the dead', which it's not, but fits the theme perfectly.
Clanad is very inspiring, and should be an inspiration and a reminder to us all especially if we are indigenous lrish people to what we lost as a people of lreland in culture and language that belongs to us. That's why this can never be allowed to happen again. !
You have to listen to this on a high end system to do this masterpiece justice!!! Seriously…..the high frequencies on this are so good that I use it to test tweeters.
This is just such a special song in many ways. It is so magical when all of the vocals fuse together. No song since or after has sounded anywhere near as good as this. Timeless. 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏
A truly beautiful and moving peace of music that somehow captures the anguish and pain of the troubles. I always find it deeply affecting and think of the brutality of those times.
Oh -ein waschechter Eidgenosse! Na, in DEM Fall muss ich dann ja wohl unbedingt fragen: kennst schon DIESEN Clannad-Auftritt? th-cam.com/video/mdOFwuN8Nb0/w-d-xo.html
Came across loads of abandoned properties like this that had been abandoned in the 1950s early 1960s during area searches. My families were ones who left the country for a peaceful future.
For me the song symbolizes the conflict in Northern Ireland and the cancer of hatred that stalked the red-brick streets of Belfast and the hedgerows of south Armagh and the vanishing of Robert Nairac and the starvation of Bobby Sands 🇮🇪☘🇬🇧
Beautifully haunting, so poignant and so powerful to this very day in July 2021. Time itself stands still everytime I hear this incredible sound. Way ahead of its time and very emotional. 🌏❤🙏🇬🇧
For all of the souls of the faithful departed be at peace. So shall we find peace with one another. That their souls shall rejoice and we shall celebrate their lives. For that is the debt we owe the fallen to finally rest in peace.
The bloodiest war I have ever fought in , 4 tours nothing was ever solved just people killed ,when this came out I was in Crossmaglen the 5 th most dangerous place in the world 🌎 at that time and at my lowest in moral , living worse than an animal for 6 months and just wondering if I was gonna be alive for the next day !
I still have this record on a 45rpm record. From my time serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1974. It is such an haunting sound, it will never ever leave me. Northern Ireland is such a beautiful country.
@@janicelivett8892 Touche. I appreciate your correction. However, upon closer inspection, I would argue that "From my time serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1974." is not a sentence. I must have imputed a semicolon between the first and second "sentence" when I read it.
The old man, grey with torment, will go, The most beautiful skylark on the branch will go, The young man will go, and his reputation will follow him, All that ever will come and has come will go.
100% Goosebumps - even on the 1000th hearing
Yes ❤
Agree 💯 😊
oh yes!
I actually heard this amazing song for the first time on the U2 Under a Blood Red Sky Concert video from 1983 . It is in the beginning and the end .
Same here, even on a cheaper (though still Sennheiser) headphone
Watched Patriot Games in the late 1990's as a teen and never forgot this song. Crazy to find it all these years later. Great music
That’s me holding my temper Jimmy boy!
That’s where I first heard it too
It's been used other times. I think in some Tom Clancy movie with Harrison Ford.
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@@BobSmith-dk8nw the movie you’re talking about is patriot games.
Ok. Now watch "Harry's Game".
A friend of my wife’s sang this at our wedding in Wicklow more than 20 years ago. Brutal. She is trained in classic Irish singing and sounded just like that. No instruments, just her voice. Could hear a pin drop. Folks from all over the world just fell silent.
How beautiful ❤
Did you record it?
I doubt you had any figures from around the world, at least no important ones, unless your wife's friend was friends with famous presidents and politicians and celebrities.
Gaelic is coming back… The most beautiful language ever. Enya did it justice… 😢
@@GregiiFlieger the singer in Clannad Moyà Brennan is Enya’s sister.
No matter how many times I hear this it always sends a shiver down my spine.
This was also in the film Patriot Games. It was used in a clever way to emphasise the impact of the previous series about the Northern Irish problems .
same for me it's one of those songs that does that anyone from this era
Me too ! 😯
Jaysus, right??
A M E N
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Celtic through and through.
just music originating from humans in a different place
Irish not celtic. We are not all one entity. To use the term celtic doesn't give recognition to a very irish song about a very irish issue.
@@aine7173 Thats true.
But the poignancy of this song is even more appreciated when one considers the backdrop.
A British Cabinet minister had been assassinated in London by the IRA.
So the British sent their best man (an SAS Captain who happened to be Irish ) into Belfast to find the assassin and kill him.
It was how their meeting unfolded that made the song so heart wrenching.
yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely
For years I’ve loved the song ‘Saltwater’ by Chicane and had no idea the hook was a sample of this song until I was watching Patriot Games on TV one night and recognized it during the scene where the IRA assassins come to O’Donnell’s house. I immediately ran to search up this song, and boy I’m so glad I found it. What a beautiful and haunting piece of music.
It hits on a different level, I lived through the troubles and lost many loved ones, blessings to you and your family🌻🌻
Chicane / Saltwater... now i recognize it!
Glad u did .!!!. Good health to enjoy it.😊
Literally here for the exact same reason lol! Man what a throwback it was hearing it. Recognised instantly
Yea Nick Bracegirdle " Chicane "loved the track and wanted to play about with it, but contacted Moya Brennan asking if they fanced a re sing of the track, and the overlayed harmonies are what u hear, the rest is history,,,,,,,,,so to speak,,,,,,classic
My uncle was killed by the IRA back in the 1970s, what a waste of life the troubles have been, on both sides. How many families torn apart? Such a tragic part of history. Let's hope that peace will continue there and the rifts healed, and that the dead will rest
@@Roadmaster2006 like I said what a waste. How is it that humans can do these things to one another? Killing and raping and murdering innocent people. I've never understood it
Mooi nummer, schrijf of mail in het Nederlands zal niet veel begrijpen de spanningen in Engeland, Noord Ierland en Ierland. Ben zelf katholiek, maar in Nederland kan ik het goed vinden met anders gelovigen zo lang we respect vol omgaan met elkaar, en dat gaat goed in Nederland. Wens iedereen het allerbeste, iedereen verdiend een gelukkig leven met zijn dierbare familie en vrienden.
@Dan's Sniper School
we'll find you....or your family. 'tis no threat, it's a promise.
Well it's not IRAs fault for thousands of years of oppression and slavery from the Brits
@J. wanker
My mum was from County Cork and spoke Gaelic. She loved this song and it always reminds me of her and her love of the true Irish language. R.I.P Breda. Forever loved and missed. Vich noch dio lat. ❤❤xxx
My heart goes out to you.
The love of a child and parent is one of the most powerful forces on earth. God bless you and yours.
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Ar dheis De go raibh di. x
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A REBEL YOUR MOTHER WAS MAY SHE REST IN PEACE
@@lorrainefeletti5194 thoughts and prayers for your beloved mother ✝️💖💐🙏
I first heard this song as a young child when my father watched Harrys game, it stxckwirh me ever since, 40 yrs later, i still play this tune.My dad passed away 9/3/24, he taught me so much. I love u dad, miss u x
Thoughts and prayers are with you and your loved ones my friend ✝️🙏💐
So sorry for your loss. Yes a beautiful song that my half Irish side empathizes with.
2.words "Haunting and Beautiful".
Lived through the 80s near London. I never understood why someone would want to bomb my school. We had bomb threats every term. We were afraid and many reacted angrily. Too many have died on both sides. It has mostly stopped but there is a serious undercurrent.
The take away... Don't pass your hatreds into the next generation. No good thing will come of it.
I live in London and have done since 1979 some of the things since then would've blown most peoples minds especially those across the Atlantic or anyone born after 1990 .Strikes , protests , wars , riots , terrorist threats almost on the daily , communism against capitalism and even eco disasters .
Yet it happens. Unfortunately there are still quite a few 'bitter ones' on both sides, nationalist and unionist.
Look up the book "Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture".
Happens, especially when messing with other people's lives. Certain actions cause reactions.
@@bearcatXF Or you could take the point the man is making.
This is a beautiful piece of music. It has stirred my soul since the first time I heard it years ago.
Loon
@@davidfelix2594 if a piece of music like this hasn't touched the very core of your being then honestly you must have no heart or soul..Because this piece of music stirs up and invokes such emotion in a person, that can't be quantified or measured respectively!!
Yeah it’s incredible. From that first synth note to Maire’s awesome voice. It’s perfection
Same mate
It's Ireland...those voices from Clannad, including Enya are my Irish soul...make me teary at times.
Loved this group from the moment Harrys Game came out the haunting music the clear and beautiful voice havebeen lucky enough to see them many times
They exist since 1970 when they were firmed and during the thde 70s they performing pure Irish old Folk acoustic/vocal....until the 1982 when they started to compose songs on their own and this was the start: they swiched to synthesiser, electronics and the Celtic genre was born !
This is one of those songs that you never want to end
And yet it is only 2:30 minutes. Cruel.
It's so short so many wonderful songs need to be longer this needs like most have if it hasn't remix,12inch to extended most great songs deserve too
The most haunting piece of music ever recorded
Gerard White almost
She has the voice of an angel! Sounds like this music is coming straight out of heaven!
agreed.. its haunted m since i was born.
Also the track maire brennan did with sonny condell Downrunning is on par but far lesser known
A close second to Adagio in G Minor
Perfect enough to listen to for the death of Queen Elizabeth II
Farewell your Majesty
For anyone that doesn't understand the musical connection.
Harry's Game produced in the 80's about the troubles in Northern Ireland.
A British Army agent is sent to the heart of Belfast to track down a gunman responsible for the killing of a British politician. It's an incredibly powerful drama. Adapted from a book by Gerald Seymour really worth a watch.
I only just found it , only prob is only free one was on you tube so I couldn't get into it so gonna buy it , but I could tell from the first 20 min this was truly the 80s and the ira with kinda defined each other
I'm Irish ,though I live in New Zealand.Met a big heavily built britt with a strong southwest english accent.he wore heavy black military boots .He had recently imigrated to New Zealand.He realisied my surname and he being careful told me he was in the british army.I asked him why he left,his reply" I was shit scared of being posted to Northern Ireland" .I mentioned Harry's Game,that was the end of the conversation.
A briiliant film.👍
Gaelic Music
as an england born person,I wish the people born in ireland peace and a realisation people live on land and not in a religion
This song is one of the most haunting songs I know makes you reflect on people no longer here. ❤
My husband and I are watching the Patriot games. So I decided to look up this song and here it is. Joined TH-cam channel. 🎶❤🎶
What a masterpiece. This song certainly gives me a subliminal message, making me shiver.
When I first heard this song, it haunted me so much that I became obsessed to find out more about Gaelic & this mysterious Irish group 'clan as dobhar' aka Clannad. Started to collect their Albums (very difficult at the time far away in the western Caribbean), but I built it slowly starting with Anam, Banba & PastPresent. Then came 'The Last of The Mohicans' & thx to the P2P Networks, I was able to get the rare traditional gems like An Diolam, Cran Ull, Dulaman, Fuaim, Legend, Rogha, etc....I'll NEVER get tired of Clannad. After Enigma, they're my all-time favorite group!
@Mike McGrath-Bryan On Vinyl! Wow....I gotta visit Ireland, one for the retirement Bucket list yes!!
Enya is their Sister..Sacred Ireland they Embody☘️
Rest in glory, Padraig and Noel. Your spirits will live forever in the music you left for us ❤️❤️❤️
@chrisbloodknot2380 The Gaelic version of Patrick, these days there is no shame in carrying a name that has been Gaelicised.
So both of them have died?? I knew about one, some years ago. But didn't know about the other.
@@darreng745 you see paddy is a good riish soul but if there is a pake or pakie in your area then thats a atn too thick to know that peac and peacai (pronounced pake and pakie) means sinful and riddled with sins ..peac being sin ..but shh they are gong around the place earwigging and being loyal to the child rapists and spying and lying for cape drink from the informer class that they are ...
I also knew that one of the twins had died but not the other. I fondly recall dropping into a pub in Dublin one night in 1994 when the World Cup was on in the USA. I started chatting about the football with another bloke propping up the bar, and after we had been chatting for a while he asked where I was from. I replied that it was from Perth, Australia and he told me that he had been there, and his band had played at the Perth Concert Hall. I asked him what was the name of his band, and he replied 'Clannad'. I proceeded to tell him how I had their album PastPresent. It turned out that the bloke was Noel Duigan. We had a good long chat over a few beers. RIP Noel - I shall always remember chatting with you that night in a Dublin pub.
@@BCOZ-nb2lo I worked on a building site back in 1993 in Berlin with a group of Irish. There were three other Irish lads on a different job on the site who kept themselves very much to themselves. The tallest had a limp, something which occurs when the feet come into contact regularly with wet sand. The smallest fellow lost the tip of his finger when a shuttering board slid down over it. One day I dropped a bag of cement from my shoulder and as it was quitting time, I left it there. Three days later I got chatting to the middle sized of the other three lads. He told me that the German foreman was a a b....d and had accused him to leaving the bag of cement out. It was the middle of winter and cement does not take kindly to temperatures below zero. He told me that he could not speak German and the only word he could use to get across his displeasure was the word 'scheisse'. He went on to tell me he was part of the group Clannad but left as there was too much internal wrangling. Don't ask me which of the twins it was but I am sorry to hear that one of them has passed on. I am sorry too that I did not own up and take the blame.
RIP Noel, so sad, still listening to you.
Found it! I've finally found the piece of music that has been rolling through my head for years!! I now have closure, thank you Clannad for a magnificent and emotional spiritual journey. Beautiful and haunting.
a powerful song , may it heal many wells never forgotten
I remember the serial Harrys Game and have always loved this music, so haunting, and became a fan of Clannad and later Enya,
Brings me to tears even after all these years, so beautiful.
Why does this song bring a tear to my eye every time, I’m 34 now and throughout my whole life listening to this. 😢❤
Close your eyes and simply float away. It's so ethereal. It does send you somewhere else. Very few songs have that kind of affect or impact. Agree it sends a shiver to the spine!
I first heard this song when I watched Patriot Games. Whenever I hear this song, it never fails to bring me to tears. So soulful it is.
That’s me holding my temper Jimmy boy
Same here. I'd never heard of Clannad before Patriot Games.
Same here. Definitely a sound that stays with you.
@@Oath_Keeper1979 Right. Then the big bearded fella gets murdered just after a session in the sack with the young and luscious Polly Walker. My intro to her. Been a fan ever since.
This beautiful piece of music was played at my cousin's funeral. It is the 4th anniversary of his passing. 😥💙
Claire Dainton sorry for your loss.
May your cousin rest in peace 💙🙏
Rest in peace. Stay strong Claire! ❤️
My condolences
🙏
@@tomfitzpatrick7335 Thank you 🫶
This band was ridiculously talented.
Enya's eldest sister is the lead singer.
I didn't know that
Whoa that’s a trip..... I love Enya and I just discovered this bunch recently I had no idea that they were sisters but I totally see the resemblance now.... wow that’s why I love checking the comments section lol
@@jonramsey6348 yes they are from a village here in Donegal, the Gaeltacht area. Clannad are amazing. The whole family play instruments. Humble and talented.
Moya Brennan or in English Marie Brennan
@@GAZMAN3510 Moya is English, Máire Irish, but obviously same pronouncation
It's pure magic, both the song and the performance. I do not understand Irish Gaelic, just feel mesmerized each time I hear it. One of my all time favourites.
Oh the heart burst through my chest, when as a lad in central Ireland, hearing this song for the first time made me understand what an honour it is to be a true son of Ériú...
And today? What do you say?
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We are losing our 3200 year old country.
@@theredseventhousand agreed, being led by corrupt officials. My brothers partner came from mountmellick, lovely part of Ireland
"Harry's Game" was broadcast once on Italy's RAI TV in the early 1980s in the late hour. No one understood the plot, although I loved this poignant melody. Ten years later, Ireland and Irish music became popular in Italy and the "Theme" was the soundtrack of an ice cream commercial.
I played this at my dad’s funeral a year ago, he was from Ireland.🇮🇪
R.I.P your Dad. 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
May he Rest Well ☘️ 🇮🇪
Really?Lucky him,that way he was spare from listen to that p.o.s.
I totally get this song . My deepest condolences 🙏 . I play this very offen lost my sister in 1981.
I also commented on wanting one of Clannad songs played at my funeral and it is hard to choose as they all give me goosebumps but yesterday I managed to narrow it down lol! peace and love to you!:)
I love the scene in Patriot Games when Patrick Bergin's character is sat watching this on TV in his isolated cottage whilst those assassins approach.
"This is me holding my temper Jimmy boy"
After the attempt to kill him, his girlfriend shot Jimmy
With an appropriate thunder storm coming
Some of the most gangster isht ever... he has a Armsel Striker 12 gauge shotgun, sipping tea
Yes, watching the movie right now on hulu
Played for my grandads funeral, a catholic of Irish descent. Also called Harry. It suited his character so well
Harry is an English name, Harold
Clannad have always been a great Irish group. This song is class.
So is B*witched Irish Most greatest band ever Cest la vie love that song
R.I.P. Noel, yet another star in Heaven.
A great book, a great series and the music is otherworldly beautiful.
Growing up in the 1980 there was nothing like robin of Sherwood in truth we had some great television series but robin of Sherwood was simply magic in a class of its own clanned made the series so unforgettable
One of my favorite programs from 30 yrs ago! I used to savor every minute of Robinhood. I was unemployed at the time. watching it took my mind away from my situation
Reminds me of being 21 (in 82) and the feeling of just starting out in life. Time flies
Now T, your post was tantalising .... please tell us (well me) how your life has gone ..., please .I 'm 67 by the way
My Life’s wizzed past too..and I’m 67 …where did time go.. xx
Same age..me to
Time is relative. At 18, standing in the front yard of my parent's home, I imagined what it would be like to be an old man of 70. Now at 70 years old, it feels pretty damn good! I was blessed with a good life, not grand by any means, a loss of loved ones, a divorce and estrangement of my children, but in all that, I was true to my convictions. Life is what a person makes of it.
May there be peace for Mother Ireland and all her lost children
🙏☘☘
Oh, what a beautiful song... There is music that touches your heart, but this really touches my soul...
Her voice melts my very bones. So beautiful. 😢
Probably the best modern music masterpiece... Work of art...
This song is a masterpiece as the sound of this track still remains modern.
The 1st record i ever bought age 14.. Had no idea what the words meant but, fell in love with the beautiful haunting melody.. They were troubled times producing such horrors and like this song such exquisite pure beauty.... Full volume, headphones on, dark room. This WILL transcend your soul......
Don't think you need to know what the words mean. It's just utterly beautiful!
Imtheochaidh soir is siar I will go east and go west
A dt�inig ariamh an ghealach is an ghrian From whence came the moon and the sun
Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day
Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day
Imtheochaidh an ghealach's an ghrian The moon and the sun will go
An duine �g is a ch�il 'na dhiadh And the young man with his reputation behind him
Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day
Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day
Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day
Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day
Imtheochaidh a dt�inig ariamh I will go wherever he came from
An duine �g is a ch�il ne dhiadh The young man with his reputation behind him
Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day
Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day
This has always haunted me, and still it does....such a simple melody, yet those strange notes sustained across the changes gives the Irish pathos an other-worldly feel. A little, unassuming masterpiece....
Such a haunting piece of music
One of the best TV program about the troubles in Northern Ireland. I have many friends who service out there and said it true to life. Great song
I forgot how much I am / was moved by this.
Her voice was indescribable.
I get a medieval and mystical feel about this song and i don't know why and i love it 😍
Bless your heart there is alot of sorrow in this song and hope
I was wondering if it was just me lol..... I haven’t a clue what they’re saying but I hear struggle and triumph in their voices..... I’m working at my workbench with this song on repeat
Busy Bee that's because Clannad and Enya sound like Gregorian chant music in a large hall somewhere but sung in Gaelic instead of in Latin
Much older roots than medieval .... think Druid
Very celtic, back wayyy back into the mists of time.... The time of myth and legend.
This is one of the songs that haunted me, years after hearing it somewhere I no longer remember. I didn't know the name of the song or the name of the band. It crossed my mind that the female singer sounded a little like Enya which I love her music... I was shocked to know it is actually her sister! All these years passed and I got shivers down my spine hearing this masterpiece, I felt like I was in a trance of some sorte. Simply incredible!
That happened to me as well since I was a kid in the end 80’s, early 90’s. Then, not too many years ago, I thought this song could probably belong to Anette Cantor which has a really close vocal and vibrato type as Moyan. Enya is fascinating as well since I heard her in 91 for the 1st time, lauching the caribbean blue song, it was like my imaginary world in my 8 years old. I do really think genuine childrens perceive pure thing much closely than adults, so its not strange to like clannad, enya and vangelis from the beginning.
me too Berta
WE SHOULD ALL BE IN MOURNING WORLDWIDE FOR ALL THE VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE, TAKEN FROM US TOO SOON BY FACELESS EVIL SEEKING TO BE KNOWN. LET US TOGETHER DECLARE OUR DEDICATION: WE WILL REMEMBER THE VICTIMS, THEIR SMILES, THEIR
LAUGHS, THEIR UNIQUE WAYS OF CASTING THEIR SHADOWS ON A SUMMER DAY. AND LET US ALSO MAKE ANOTHER PLEDGE: TO PROMISE THE PERPETRATORS OF SENSELESS DEATH: YOU WILL NOT
BE REMEMBERED; YOUR PLACE WILL BE IN AN UNMARKED GRAVE, YOUR HISTORY EXPUNGED FROM THE ANNALS OF MEMORY AND TIME.
B , you might like the Poison Glen by Clannad ....ethereal stuff
One of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard
Beautiful stunning Irish band and music never ages only gets more beautiful ☘☘☘☘☘
One of my greatest memories was being invited to meet the band for about an hour after seeing them in concert in Sheffield. They were extremely interested in my opinions of their music and the concert itself. This meeting saved my life. Driving back home down the motorway the bonnet of my car flew up and wrapped around my windscreen. I could not see a thing and slammed on my brakes and stopped dead in the middle of the motorway. If I had been a hour earlier the road would have been busy and I would not have rated my chances of getting out alive. Thank you Clannad.
Amazing story - thank you.
All these years later it has the power to transport you somewhere else when listening, wonder song , takes me back to 80s Northern Ireland .
Her voice every song she sings is haunting been lucky enough to see them live many times
This music gives me goosebumps beautiful.
Clannad. - Harry’s Game. This celtic song is hauntingly beautiful. They sing it with such sadness and devotion obviously with some religious innuendos. I’m not sure.
It certainly makes an impression on me each time i hear it. Funnily enough, I can’t help but enjoy it.
Agreed.. this song does things to me that I don't understand and I don't want to.
Many deployments to Ireland came back in one piece but this music brings a chill to me 😓
Words are not enough to say how good this is
Very powerful & haunting. So poignant in the context of the Irish troubles. I really thought the lyrics were, 'Open the door for the dead', which it's not, but fits the theme perfectly.
Simply put, an absolute masterpiece.
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@@lostinthefog14 - colwynboy
Clanad is very inspiring, and should be an inspiration and a reminder to us all especially if we are indigenous lrish people to what we lost as a people of lreland in culture and language that belongs to us. That's why this can never be allowed to happen again. !
R.I.P Noel, this beautiful masterpiece will live on forever...thank you for your amazing talent 👏 ❤️
So beautiful, can stop listening ...
You have to listen to this on a high end system to do this masterpiece justice!!!
Seriously…..the high frequencies on this are so good that I use it to test tweeters.
Clannad never fail to deliver great music, From Happy and joyful to sad and depressing
This is just such a special song in many ways.
It is so magical when all of the vocals fuse together.
No song since or after has sounded anywhere near as good as this.
Timeless.
🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏
So glad I found this song again. The first time I heard it was the end of U2’s Live Under A Blood Red Sky video. I still have that video from 1982
Same :)
Yeah still have that on VHS.
chicken2jail I do too!
I have it on DVD now. I watch it at Christmas.
The music of Clannad sends a shiver down my spine and has a spiritual feel to it.
I just finished Harry's game, great book. I love learning about the Irish/English history.
A truly beautiful and moving peace of music that somehow captures the anguish and pain of the troubles. I always find it deeply affecting and think of the brutality of those times.
So many great things have come from Ireland Clannad and Riverdance to name only a couple
U2, Guinness and Irish Stew
@@mitchelle4322Don't forget Jedward!🤣
@@jackbarnes8037 and graham norton...
First heard this when I was 7. Been a fan ever since.
I watvched Harry's Game in the 80's and I cant watch it again. But ther music I listen to all the time.
We always loved Clannad here in Switzerland...they even made a livealbum not far from the place I live...great band!
Oh -ein waschechter Eidgenosse! Na, in DEM Fall muss ich dann ja wohl unbedingt fragen: kennst schon DIESEN Clannad-Auftritt? th-cam.com/video/mdOFwuN8Nb0/w-d-xo.html
Just beautiful, adore Clannad but especially this track. Can't get enough of it🎤🎻🥁
this music sounds over 50 years true your bones again ,what a fantastic music clannad made ❤
God bless Ireland!
Brings me to tears every time
Maybe the most emotional piece of music ever wrote for a number of reasons. Love will overcome..
Came across loads of abandoned properties like this that had been abandoned in the 1950s early 1960s during area searches. My families were ones who left the country for a peaceful future.
Blimmey the most haunting yet beautiful song ever Clannad for ever ✌️✌️🍀🍀🕯️🕯️👍👍 cheers stevo 🍀🍀
This is one of those songs you don’t know the name of, you just know the song. Beautiful music
beautifully haunting and soul moving...
For me the song symbolizes the conflict in Northern Ireland and the cancer of hatred that stalked the red-brick streets of Belfast and the hedgerows of south Armagh and the vanishing of Robert Nairac and the starvation of Bobby Sands 🇮🇪☘🇬🇧
Never again :the heartbreak experienced by so many on all sides
Mythical beauty, this song. Best of humanity...
2021 and still get goosebumps listening to this beautiful song. I remember when it first came out back in 1982 and Harrys Game being on TV.
2022 still love it.
Masterpiece 😂😢
@@ianjordan5532 2023 - still love it! ;-)
So much done right in this song. From the Fairlight and maybe a Oberheim? Simply beautiful.
Beautifully haunting, so poignant and so powerful to this very day in July 2021. Time itself stands still everytime I hear this incredible sound. Way ahead of its time and very emotional. 🌏❤🙏🇬🇧
For all of the souls of the faithful departed be at peace. So shall we find peace with one another. That their souls shall rejoice and we shall celebrate their lives. For that is the debt we owe the fallen to finally rest in peace.
The bloodiest war I have ever fought in , 4 tours nothing was ever solved just people killed ,when this came out I was in Crossmaglen the 5 th most dangerous place in the world 🌎 at that time and at my lowest in moral , living worse than an animal for 6 months and just wondering if I was gonna be alive for the next day !
Beautiful, haunting track.
I still have this record on a 45rpm record. From my time serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1974. It is such an haunting sound, it will never ever leave me. Northern Ireland is such a beautiful country.
uhh they wrote this song in 1982, bud
@CH1 ; its the United Kingdom, so you can go and get stuffed you Republican Communist Marxist IRA bum .
@@djd829he said - ‘from’ his time
@@janicelivett8892 Touche. I appreciate your correction.
However, upon closer inspection, I would argue that "From my time serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1974." is not a sentence.
I must have imputed a semicolon between the first and second "sentence" when I read it.
Should be THE North of Ireland, not Northern Ireland, still colonized to this day.
Love Clannad, love this spiritual piece of genius..makes my mind right...
The old man, grey with torment, will go,
The most beautiful skylark on the branch will go,
The young man will go, and his reputation will follow him,
All that ever will come and has come will go.