See I always thought of the song Fairytale of New York, Probably bc of the Music IN SAYING THAT THO the song isn’t historical, Although it is a good song that I hope will go down In History
i can understand your free state perspective what is the most importen irish songs is diffrent to northen part of ireland . songs like Provos lulluby or Blackwatch . The list can make long songs from the the northen Ireland perspectiv.
Ive always vaguely liked traditional Irish music, but the other day i heard "Cone Out Ye Black and Tans" and i cant stop listening. Officially saving this video to check out all the songs mentioned in the comments
@@MojangOfficial783 why, because of Joyce? Doesn't really come close to the historical importance of Skibereen, an dórd feinne, grace, amhrainn na bhfiann, fields of athenry, the valley of knockanure, etc. Doesn't even make the top 15 of historical importances really, unless there's something about it that I'm missing?
The Foggy Dew #3 The Rocky Road To Dublin #2 The Parting Glass #1 . My top 3 and #2 version by The Pogues In fact I love the Pogues rendition of The Parting Glass as well ☘️ 🍀 ☘️ 🍀 ☘️ 🍀 ☘️ 🍀 ☘️
Dude, The Foggy Dew.... If we had to replace Amhrán na bhFiann I'd choose The Foggy Dew without question. Sinead O'Connor's version just solidifies it as the quintessential Irish song in my humble opinion.
-Oró, Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile -Foggy Dew -Joe Mcdonnell There are many more I would love to put but these three always stand out to me but on top of these songs I also like to listen to songs such as Irish Volunteer or the Boys That Wore The Green as they remind me of the contribution of the Irish people in America long live the Green Flag of Erin and a free Ireland
I think my list goes something like this: 1. Rising of the moon and variations. 2. Garryowen. 3. And any song made by the Wolfe Tones or Irish Brigade.
@@benchilton1391 no, is because like the Irish we face whoever comes to fuck with us no matter how big or powerful they are, we also reject imperialists
@@TheCreizyWorldrespect, also celts did inhabit Spain before the Roman invasion so technically speaking your Spanish ancestors could be part celtic never know! It was a while ago
@@TFinna realistically, only real chance of that is if their ancestors are Galician. majority of Conquistadors were Castilian, Andalusian or Basque, not Galician
I'd put the rockey road to Dublin 3rd but yea good call. Actually now I think about it the Fields of Athenry would have to be in there first. Dearg Doom would also be an honourable shout.
Theres a old Irish song, sung by mothers during the Anglo-Boer war (1899 - 1902) where mothers sing about wanting the Boers to beat the English, and be free of tyranny, but knowing that the cost of the Boers winning would be the lives of Irish sons forced to go fight the Boers who never did anything against the Irish for the English.... As a Boer, I always believed there was a kinship between the Irish and Boers of South Africa.
Thanks to the people of Orania for removing the Irish Monument from Brixton ,Johannesburg to Orania for safekeeping as it was neglected in Brixton and they wanted to develope the ground on which it was situated.
In America "Dear Old Donegal" is the quintessential immigrant tune. It's not specifically about Irish history. It's about being successful in America, but being homesick for Ireland & dreaming of going back home to Ireland to share their success w/ loved ones. My grandfather loved this song. I would listen to it w/ him, but the entire time I didn't realize what it was about & that he must have been homesick himself. Broke my heart when I finally realized what the song was about, but by then he was gone.
Bonnie Prince Charlie. My da spoke regarding him. He was an iron miner in the Northern part of Minnesota. What a tale he could tell about Bonnie Prince Charlie. He read everything.
As we are now watching our country,being decimated,thank God for this young man.I have always loved my country,and I am devastated.I kissed the ground at Dublin airport long before the Pope did.💚I used to be so emotional seeing Ireland from the plane,through the clouds as a teenager coming home from London,that fellow passengers would shed a few tears with me.
I 100% agree!! Well at the same time I can't just leave it at 3!! Lol I love our native songs, another two of my favourites is "the town I loved so well" and "the foggy dew"
Thanks you so very very much for this video, it made me start to cry. The music jusy punches me in my heart. I'm a Wilson, I'm a 5th generation Scottish American. However, before my mother passed away in 2000, she told me to find my cousin's in Ulster. It will make me proud to find my Wilson family in Ulster. ThankYou, Regards, Donnie Wilson, Ulster Scot. relayives on Ulster
Zombie by the Cranberries needs to be added to this list since it bookends the rebellion period the rest of the songs came from to the end of the troubles.
Has to be kevin barry for me seems to hit a spot that no other does the bravery the strength the love for his country i play it often its brings out pride inside and im so proud to be irish the stories ive heard off what irish went through such a small country yet one off the greatest love my country ❤
Don't forget. You Wouldnae Shove Your Granny Af A Bus. sung by Robin O Hall. and Jimmy O McGregor. With additional material by Buffalo Bill and His High Flying Dish Clothes. Coming to a Urinal near you!
Even i am not not Irish, i am Czech, i fully feel the feel to e indepentency. The need for be free on you OWN will and get KICK OUT of anybody who would like to take care over you. Stay still fre Irish, one day i am gonna visit you. :-)
Yes indeed. I wasn’t speaking of the best songs. Just the most important songs 😊 Come Out Ye Black and Tans had no historical value really. It was written about 40 years after the war of independence
"If I Should Fall From Grace With God" is one of the most important Irish songs. Pretty much anything on any Pogues album is a nonle pick. "Shamrock Shore" would also be on my list
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See I always thought of the song Fairytale of New York, Probably bc of the Music
IN SAYING THAT THO the song isn’t historical, Although it is a good song that I hope will go down In History
RIP Shane McGowan
You’re an inspiration Dave 👌🇮🇪☘️
Song of Dawn and Kathleen Largey need a mention sometime.
i can understand your free state perspective what is the most importen irish songs is diffrent to northen part of ireland . songs like Provos lulluby or Blackwatch . The list can make long songs from the the northen Ireland perspectiv.
Fields of Athenry - tells of a terrible injustice. Sung it all my life.
I'm surprised I had to scroll so far to find this
Also a great choice
@@RowdyBrian17 I think it could be a generational thing.
Injustice 😂
Low lieeeee
"Foggy Dew" is such a fucking hit about the war
Me hairy arsed drunkin Irish Daddy is a great song so tis
@@laurapaton-b9ocheers Laura 👍
My favorite version is the one is the one by Sinead O'Connor to Chieftains
@@naughton101that’s the best version the live concert in the 90s she owns it
@@naughton101 absolutely the best version by far. Her voice just captured it perfectly
3. Amhrán an bhFiann
2. Óro sé do Beatha bhaile
1. Come out ye Black and Tans
Dude come out ya black and tans is such a great song
@@sarahholden8814 i know right!
I had Foggy Dew with Come Out Ye Balck & Tans as a 4th
@@sarahholden8814fr
Come out ye Black and Tans is a stolen orange tune😂
Ive always vaguely liked traditional Irish music, but the other day i heard "Cone Out Ye Black and Tans" and i cant stop listening. Officially saving this video to check out all the songs mentioned in the comments
1. Come out ye Black and Tans
2. The Foggy Dew
3. Horse outside
Thank you for including the national anthem, even though you listed it third
I agree
😂Horse outside is catchy tune
It's tight but The Foggy Dew should be on there
Finnigan’s wake is the most historically significant🗿
Black and Tans is pretty cool too
@@MojangOfficial783 why, because of Joyce? Doesn't really come close to the historical importance of Skibereen, an dórd feinne, grace, amhrainn na bhfiann, fields of athenry, the valley of knockanure, etc. Doesn't even make the top 15 of historical importances really, unless there's something about it that I'm missing?
Foggy dew
The craic was ninety
In Mexico we love the song "Saint Patrick's Battalion". Thanks irish brothers in arms, we lost, no comparison to give a fight, but still, gracias !
Don’t loose hope in Mexico St. Juan Diego bless this country and the people. May they return to blessed Our Lady Guadapule. God bless you all!
🇨🇮 💚💚🇲🇽👍🙂
I like "The Soldiers Song". Also what about "The Wind that shakes the Barley"?
you need to go El Salvador on your cartels
@@The_Hartofect_God bless you too 🇲🇽♥️ 🇮🇪 ✝️
Rising of the Moon, the Clanceys version kick-started the folk revival in the 60s
The Foggy Dew #3
The Rocky Road To Dublin #2
The Parting Glass #1
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My top 3 and #2 version by The Pogues
In fact I love the Pogues rendition of The Parting Glass as well
☘️ 🍀 ☘️ 🍀 ☘️ 🍀 ☘️ 🍀 ☘️
Dude, The Foggy Dew.... If we had to replace Amhrán na bhFiann I'd choose The Foggy Dew without question. Sinead O'Connor's version just solidifies it as the quintessential Irish song in my humble opinion.
Personally I think the best version which strikes with passion is Lukes Kelly's
For me it should be the national anthem instead mo chara..The longer version that mentions 7 tongues of flame..
the young wolfe tones foggy dew is brilliant
Luke Kellys is better imo
Yes Luke Kelly's version is great
-Oró, Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile
-Foggy Dew
-Joe Mcdonnell
There are many more I would love to put but these three always stand out to me but on top of these songs I also like to listen to songs such as Irish Volunteer or the Boys That Wore The Green as they remind me of the contribution of the Irish people in America long live the Green Flag of Erin and a free Ireland
Joe McDonnell was and is one of the best patriotic songs.
I think my list goes something like this:
1. Rising of the moon and variations.
2. Garryowen.
3. And any song made by the Wolfe Tones or Irish Brigade.
In Argentina we love the song to the Admiral Brown 🇮🇪 🇦🇷
@@benchilton1391 no, is because like the Irish we face whoever comes to fuck with us no matter how big or powerful they are, we also reject imperialists
@@TheCreizyWorldrespect, also celts did inhabit Spain before the Roman invasion so technically speaking your Spanish ancestors could be part celtic never know! It was a while ago
1777🇮🇪🇦🇷
Founder of your Navy
@@TFinna realistically, only real chance of that is if their ancestors are Galician. majority of Conquistadors were Castilian, Andalusian or Basque, not Galician
1. The Foggy Dew (The Young Wolfe Tones)
2. Whiskey In The Jar
3. Follow Me Up To Carlow
mmm yes perfect!
I'd put the rockey road to Dublin 3rd but yea good call.
Actually now I think about it the Fields of Athenry would have to be in there first.
Dearg Doom would also be an honourable shout.
Theres a old Irish song, sung by mothers during the Anglo-Boer war (1899 - 1902) where mothers sing about wanting the Boers to beat the English, and be free of tyranny, but knowing that the cost of the Boers winning would be the lives of Irish sons forced to go fight the Boers who never did anything against the Irish for the English....
As a Boer, I always believed there was a kinship between the Irish and Boers of South Africa.
Thanks to the people of Orania for removing the Irish Monument from Brixton ,Johannesburg to Orania for safekeeping as it was neglected in Brixton and they wanted to develope the ground on which it was situated.
"Go On Home, British Soldiers," should get an honorable mention.
“Don’t you got no focking homes of your own”
In America "Dear Old Donegal" is the quintessential immigrant tune. It's not specifically about Irish history. It's about being successful in America, but being homesick for Ireland & dreaming of going back home to Ireland to share their success w/ loved ones. My grandfather loved this song. I would listen to it w/ him, but the entire time I didn't realize what it was about & that he must have been homesick himself. Broke my heart when I finally realized what the song was about, but by then he was gone.
Dún na nGall, or my old Irish home as I know it as because I'm now living in Scotland..
Thank you for sharing your memories. I think your Grandfather would be proud to know you are remembering him. 🤗 🫂🇺🇲
I live in Pennsylvania and I am German, Italian, and Irish which is what majority of people are here. Nice to find a channel about Ireland
You're American.
@@kinglionkayce I’m an American citizen and born and raised here yes, I’m ethnically German, Italian, Irish
@@kinglionkayce it's like Americans speak a different dialect or something, weird.
Bonnie Prince Charlie. My da spoke regarding him. He was an iron miner in the Northern part of Minnesota. What a tale he could tell about Bonnie Prince Charlie. He read everything.
The Wearing of the Green and the Fields of Athenry are family favourites ❤
I also like come out ye black and tans
Thanks for the top three.I love all Irish music,songs,everything Irish.Not a drop of Irish blood running through my veins.
As we are now watching our country,being decimated,thank God for this young man.I have always loved my country,and I am devastated.I kissed the ground at Dublin airport long before the Pope did.💚I used to be so emotional seeing Ireland from the plane,through the clouds as a teenager coming home from London,that fellow passengers would shed a few tears with me.
The Drop Kick Murphy's turned "Fields of Athenry" into a song of defiance, and it gets me everytime.
Drop kick Murphy is an American band tho
Even don't people don't know it yet, a song called "Eire" by the band Gombeen could be the most
prophetic Irish song ever written.
I 100% agree!! Well at the same time I can't just leave it at 3!! Lol I love our native songs, another two of my favourites is "the town I loved so well" and "the foggy dew"
As an Irish guy, can confirm, love from Ireland!
You just acquired a new subscriber here!! Absolutely love Irish music...well, everything Irish. Self-taught student of Irish history.
The spark should be number 1 if we keepin it 100
1. Foggy dew
2. Oro se do behtha bhaile
3.amhran na bhfiann
Mine drunken sailors
“Beer, beer, beer”. Absolute classic.
Go on home British soldier absolute classic
whiskey in the jar is like the most iconic irish song
OMG YES
just listening to your voice takes me back to hearing my visiting Irish relatives when I was. young. Such a beautiful accent.
Fields of Athenry !! - Whole family knows this song & we sing it at every wedding. Not everyone realises what it calls for however ..
Thanks you so very very much for this video, it made me start to cry. The music jusy punches me in my heart. I'm a Wilson, I'm a 5th generation Scottish American. However, before my mother passed away in 2000, she told me to find my cousin's in Ulster. It will make me proud to find my Wilson family in Ulster. ThankYou, Regards, Donnie Wilson, Ulster Scot.
relayives on Ulster
Still play Grace on my piano🇮🇪🇮🇪🎹
Fields of Athenry...Spancil Hill...
Yes and yes.
Excellent choices! 💯
You can tell how important #1 was because of how much time was dedicated to it
It's the national anthem of Ireland
@@FootballPsychoPS3T yes, you too found my joke funny, right?
@@antoniovlassa5886 I did. I left the comment for anyone reading who didn't know!
Sunday bloody Sunday 🎶🎵🎸
Zombie as well.
You’re a good man Davy, this is important work you’re doing.
I don’t know any Irish songs but I need to learn them all since I’m of Irish ancestry. I love Irish culture.
Just heard Fields of Athenry so beautiful so tragic so soul touching 🥰
My great, great grandfather was summarily executed for singing #2.
1. Do You Want Your Auld Lobby Washed Down?
2: Wanderly Wagon
3. Bingo Crazy
I was on the street, someone just asked me : "Hey ! What are the three most important Irish songs ?!". The video saved my life !
My daughter,.named Eire, loves dancing to Oro Se Do Bheata Bhaile. Éire go brâch 🇮🇪
Zombie by the Cranberries needs to be added to this list since it bookends the rebellion period the rest of the songs came from to the end of the troubles.
Number tree is amazing
honorable mention: Cranberries Zombie
I'd put it in the top 3 myself.
Class
Based
Has to be kevin barry for me seems to hit a spot that no other does the bravery the strength the love for his country i play it often its brings out pride inside and im so proud to be irish the stories ive heard off what irish went through such a small country yet one off the greatest love my country ❤
Maniac 2000 (mark mccabe)
C'est la vie (b*witched)
Good lookin woman (joe dolan)
Checkmate.
Don't forget.
You Wouldnae Shove Your Granny Af A Bus.
sung by
Robin O Hall. and
Jimmy O McGregor.
With additional material by
Buffalo Bill and
His High Flying Dish Clothes.
Coming to a Urinal near you!
❤🎉God bless you good people amen
Thank you 🙏 I agree 💯
Thank you 😊
"Irish song of war" has to be the most terrifying concepts ive run across lately.
And when we go on night patrol we hold each others hands
We are the British Army and were here to take your land 💅
Thank you keep going Good luck and God bless you ❤
• Johnny i Hardly Knew Ye
• Molly Malone (The Luck of the Irish movie version)
Foggy Dew- Whiskey in the jar- molly malone❤
The new name I have to google bc I don't who's this person: Grace O'Malley
Thank you again!
ah, the Queen of Pirates. lovely woman, killed her own son for falling out of a boat
@@Dulaman107WELL!?!?? Did he do it again? No? ... So lesson learned I'd say.
@@doithimaceabhard7457 true. In all honesty, I do quite like her, but she did do some pretty messed up things
@@Dulaman107 twas the style at the time
what would I tell them?
"idfk, why you asking me? I'm french"
1. Rocky road to Dublin 2. Drunken sailor 3. Galway girl
Galway girl Is not traditional
Dustin the Turkey overlooked again.
Dustin the turkey eurosong 2008 !!
"A nation that knows how to write a song where did it all go wrong "
Grace must be up with the best of them
No1 is the Ryanair boarding music
The foggy dew, fields of athenry and grace for me.
Even i am not not Irish, i am Czech, i fully feel the feel to e indepentency. The need for be free on you OWN will and get KICK OUT of anybody who would like to take care over you. Stay still fre Irish, one day i am gonna visit you. :-)
Davy, those 3 are great, but Come Out Ye Black and Tans should be there too
Yes indeed. I wasn’t speaking of the best songs. Just the most important songs 😊 Come Out Ye Black and Tans had no historical value really. It was written about 40 years after the war of independence
"If I Should Fall From Grace With God" is one of the most important Irish songs. Pretty much anything on any Pogues album is a nonle pick. "Shamrock Shore" would also be on my list
I love the Foggy Dew
Has anyone ever told you that look rather similar to King Alfred of Wessex from The Last Kingdom? Amazing resemblance!
Absolutely Grace is such a beautiful song
The new song by Kyle Gordon deserves to be on this list.
Rising of the Moon🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪
I love ❤️ Irish English 😢😢be proud ❤
Dropkick murphys: hold my keg of Guinness mate
I'm a drop kick murphy fan myself. Shipping out to boston lol
1) One potato, two potato song
2) The leprechaun movie main theme
3)Lucky charms cereal theme
❤
Got to make room for Rhyme Island - The Spark
Boys back in town!
Written by a British bloke
It was written by Philip Lynott of the Irish rock band THIN LIZZY.
Alternative Ulster by stiff little fingers is 1,2 and 3.
I’m going to look these up on Spotify.
Whiskey in the jar opened many American ears.
Glad to find you on YT ! 😊
Anyone here knows if it's a good thing or not to learn Irish on duolingo (for the vocab mostly) ?
"Sweet Molly Malone"❤
I was wondering why everyone forgot this
1. Fields of Athenry
2. The town I loved so well
3. The night visiting song
Anything by the Wolfe Tones
How very dare you.
Exactly 10 years before my high school biology teacher was born.
Number 3 is GRACE I DO IRISH DANCE AND MY NAME IS GRACE
Thank you so much for making this video many a time I was asked and never had an answer
1. A rainy night in Soho.
2. The Merry Ploughboy.
3. Dreams.
"The Starry Plough" "The Foggy Dew" "The Wearing Of The Green" "Erin's Flag" "Soldier's Of '22"
I go with four green fields, a town i loved so well, sean south of garryowen
Kinky Boots, SAM Song, and South Armaugh Sniper are my favorites
oh grace just hold me in your arms and let, this moment linger.
1. Boolavogue
2. The Merry Ploughboy
3. A nation once again.
I’m half Irish this makes me laugh 😂
I agree Davy. Good choices ❤🙏✝️🙏🇮🇪🇺🇲
As an American, I got The Soldiers song, but hadn't heard the others