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'Till Ireland A Nation
''Till Ireland a Nation'' is the sixth studio album by the Irish folk and rebel band the Wolfe Tones. The album features a number of political songs including ''The Boys of the Old Brigade'' and ''Broad Black Brimmer'' Track listing #Highland Paddy - 3:32 # Traveling Doctor's Shop - 3:15 # My Green Valleys - 3:34 # The Boys of the Old Brigade - 2:58 # Children of Fear - 4:28 # The Boys of Fair Hill - 1:39 # The Bodenstown Churchyard - 3:56 # The Grandfather - 3:30 # The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale - 3:54 # Broad Black Brimmer - 2:38 # Laugh and the World Laughs with You - 3:23 # A Soldier's Life - 2:17 # Give Me Your Hand "Give Me Your Hand" (Irish: ''Tabhair dom do Lámh'') is a tune from early 17th century Ireland by Rory Dall O'Cahan. It is one of the most widely recorded pieces of Irish traditional music. Composer According to Edward Bunting, in The Ancient M ... - 3:12 # Must Ireland Divided Be - 3:53 # Ireland Over All - 2:42 Personnel ;The Wolfe Tones * Tommy Byr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolfe Tones
The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel music band that incorporate Irish traditional music in their songs. Formed in 1963, they take their name from Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double meaning of a wolf tone – a spurious sound that can affect instruments of the violin family. History 1963–1964: Formation The origins of the group date back to August 1963, where three neighbouring children from the Dublin suburb of Inchicore, Brian Warfield, Noel Nagle, and Liam Courtney, had been musical friends from childhood. In August 1964 Brian's brother Derek Warfield joined the band, and in November 1964 Tommy Byrne replaced Courtney, creating the band's most recognizable line-up, which would last for nearly 37 years until January 2001. 1964–2001 In 1989, a contract was signed by Derek Warfield, signing rights to an American distributor, Shanachie Records. The contents of this contract were apparently misrepresented to the other member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Folk
Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. In ''A History of Irish Music'' (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there were at least ten instruments in general use. These were the ''cruit'' (a small harp) and '' clairseach'' (a bigger harp with typically 30 strings), the ''timpan'' (a small string instrument played with a bow or plectrum), the ''feadan'' (a fife), the ''buinne'' (an oboe or flute), the ''guthbuinne'' (a bassoon-type horn), the ''bennbuabhal'' and ''corn'' ( hornpipes), the ''cuislenna'' (bagpipes – see Great Irish warpipes), the ''stoc'' and ''sturgan'' (clarions or trumpets), and the ''cnamha'' (bones).''A History of Irish Music: Chapter II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let The People Sing (album)
''Let the People Sing'' is the fifth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones. The album features a number of political songs including ''Come Out Ye Black and Tans'' and ''A Nation Once Again. James Connolly,'' is about the execution by firing squad of the socialist revolutionary after the Easter Rising of 1916. Whilst ''Long Kesh'' is a song which protests IRA imprisonment at Long Kesh prison. ''Sean South of Garryowen'' is rather controversial as it honours the legacy of Irish Republican soldier Seán South who was a prominent fascist and anti-Semitic conspiracist. Track listing # The Snowy-Breasted Pearl # Sean South of Garryowen # Twice Daily # James Connolly # Don't Stop Me Now # Taim in Arrears # Come Out Ye Black and Tans # On the One Road # The Men Behind the Wire # For Ireland, I'd Not Tell Her Name # Paddy Lie Back # First of May # Long Kesh # A Nation Once Again "A Nation Once Again" is a song written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish To The Core
''Irish to the Core'' is the seventh album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones. The album features a number of political songs including ''Botany Bay'' and ''Rock on Rockall''. Track list # Botany Bay Botany Bay (Dharawal: ''Kamay''), an open oceanic embayment, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, south of the Sydney central business district. Its source is the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and the Cook ... # The Water is Wide # The Irish Brigade # Graine Mhaoil # Whelan's Frolics # The Night Before Larry was Stretched # Fiddler's Green # The Vale of Avoca # The Limerick Races # The Jackets Green # The Cook in the Kitchen and the Rambling Pitchfork # Kevin Barry # Rock on Rockall References The Wolfe Tones albums 1976 albums {{1970s-folk-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boys Of The Old Brigade
The Boys of the Old Brigade is an Irish rebel song written by Paddy McGuigan about the Irish Republican Army of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), and the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Lyrics The song describes a veteran of the Easter Rising telling a young man about his old comrades in the Irish Republican Army. Each chorus ends with the Irish language phrase "''a ghrá mo chroí'' (love of my heart), I long to see, the Boys of the Old Brigade". Oh, father why are you so sad On this bright Easter morn' When Irish men are proud and glad Of the land that they were born?! Oh, son, I see in mem’ries few Of far off distant days When being just a lad like you I joined the IRA Where are the lads that stood with me When history was made? A Ghra Mo Chroi, I long to see The boys of the old brigade From hills and farms a call to arms Was heard by one and all And from the glen came brave young men To answer Ireland’s call 'T wasn’t long ago we faced a foe The old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broad Black Brimmer
"The Broad Black Brimmer" is an Irish Republican folk song written by Art McMillen. The song narrates the story of a boy whose father died before he was born, fighting in the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The narrator is asked by his mother to try on his father's old uniform and as he does so, she tells his father's story. The title refers to the wide brimmed hat worn by many IRA guerrillas in the 1920s Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War. Also referenced are a Sam Browne belt, britches, a trench coat and a holster – items of equipment commonly associated with the IRA of that era. The theme of the song is Republican "unfinished business" from the 1920s – the cause of the dead father is passed on to his son. This is specifically related to the Irish Civil War of 1922 and to the subsequent IRA, which refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of either the Irish Free State or Northern Ireland states created at that time. Shortly after the narrator's father marries his mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highland Paddy
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The Boys Of Fair Hill
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tone's Grave
''Tone's Grave'', often referred to as ''Bodenstown churchyard'', was written by Thomas Davis (1814-1845), the Young Ireland leader, and published first in their newspaper "''The Nation''". It was written following his visit to the grave of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown, County Kildare c. 1843 when he found Tone's grave unmarked but guarded by a local blacksmith who would allow nobody to set foot on it. The song mourns the failure of the United Irishmen and the loss of leaders like Wolfe Tone but hints at the impending awakening of Irish nationalism much hoped for by the Young Ireland Young Ireland ( ga, Éire Óg, ) was a political movement, political and cultural movement, cultural movement in the 1840s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform. Grouped around the Dublin weekly ''The Nati ... movement. Lyrics In Bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave, And wildly around it the winter winds rave; Small shelter I ween are the ruined wall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give Me Your Hand
"Give Me Your Hand" (Irish: ''Tabhair dom do Lámh'') is a tune from early 17th century Ireland by Rory Dall O'Cahan. It is one of the most widely recorded pieces of Irish traditional music. Composer According to Edward Bunting, in The Ancient Music of Ireland, this harp tune was written in about 1603 by Rory Dall O'Cahan. This tune, revived by Seán Ó Riada, was originally a composition of the blind Derry harpist Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin. He wrote it while (in) Scotland, where he had a disagreement with a Lady Eglington. He composed the tune for her when she apologized. from the Wolfetones. Captain Francis O'Neill suggests Proud and spirited, he resented anything in the nature of trespass on his dignity. Among his visits to the houses of Scottish nobility, he is said to have called at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire. Knowing he was a harper, but being unaware of his rank, Lady Eglinton commanded him to play a tune. Taking offence at her peremptory manner, Ó Catháin refused and le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Warfield
Patrick Brian Warfield (born 2 April 1946, Holles Street, Dublin) is the vocalist, banjo, harp and bodhrán player and lead songwriter with long-standing Irish band The Wolfe Tones. Brian introduces many of the songs at the Wolfe Tones live concerts and is a keen historian. Career Warfield has written many songs for the Wolfe Tones, notably "The Helicopter Song", "Irish Eyes" and "My Heart is in Ireland". "Let the People Sing", was written in dedication to those Irish ballad singers who were banned from singing Irish songs. It has been performed by many Celtic and Irish Rebel bands, including Celtic band Charlie and the Bhoys. The song is popular among fans of Celtic F.C. and a version "Let The People Sing" performed by The Malleys, omitting the second verse, is played at Celtic Park on match days. Warfield's affiliation with Celtic Football Club led to him being asked to write a song for the Club to celebrate its 100th Anniversary. As a result, '' Celtic Symphony'' was com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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