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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] |
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] |
'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] |
Across The Broad Atlantic
''Across the Broad Atlantic'' is the eighth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones. The album features songs about Irish emigration to the United States. Track list # The Rambling Irishman # Paddy on the Railway # The Great Hunger # Many Young Men of Twenty # Sweet Tralee # Shores of America # A Dream of Liberty # Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore # Goodbye Mick # Spancil Hill # The Fighting 69th ''The Fighting 69th'' is a 1940 American war film starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and George Brent. The plot is based upon the actual exploits of New York City's 69th Infantry Regiment during World War I. The regiment was given that nickna ... # The Boston Burglar # Farewell to Dublin The Wolfe Tones albums 1976 albums {{1970s-folk-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botany Bay (song)
"Botany Bay" is a song that can be traced back to the musical burlesque, ''Little Jack Sheppard'', staged at the Gaiety Theatre, London, England, in 1885 and in Melbourne, Australia, in 1886. The show was written by Henry Pottinger Stephens and William Yardley, with music composed and arranged by Wilhelm Meyer Lutz. The show's programme credits "Botany Bay" as "Old Air arr. Lutz". Sheet music from Allan & Co. in Australia credits Florian Pascal, the pseudonym of Joseph Williams Jr. (1847–1923), a music publisher and composer who published the show's music. Pascal composed other numbers in the score but received no credit for "Botany Bay" in the programme. Earlier history The song's earlier history is less clear. A song "Botany Bay", catalogued by the British Library as from the 1780s and described as "sung by the Anacreontic Society", has no obvious connection, being concerned with Cook's landing rather than the subsequent deportation of convicts. However, the song's verses have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Water Is Wide (song)
"The Water Is Wide" (also called "O Waly, Waly" or simply "Waly, Waly") is a folk song of Scottish origin. It remains popular in the 21st century. Cecil Sharp published the song in ''Folk Songs From Somerset'' (1906). Themes and construction The imagery of the lyrics describes the challenges of love: "Love is handsome, love is kind" during the novel honeymoon phase of any relationship. However, as time progresses, "love grows old, and waxes cold." Even true love, the lyrics say, can "fade away like morning dew." The modern lyric for "The Water Is Wide" was consolidated and named by Cecil Sharp in 1906 from multiple older sources in southern England, following English lyrics with very different stories and styles but the same meter. Earlier sources were frequently published as broadsheets without music. Performers or publishers would insert, remove, and adapt verses from one piece to another: floating verses are also characteristic of hymns and blues verses. Lyrics from diffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whelan's Frolics
Whelan's is a pub and music venue in Dublin, Ireland. Profile Numerous international artists have played at the venue, including Jeff Buckley, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, Kate Nash, Townes Van Zandt, Damien Rice and Allen Toussaint. The pub was also the location for scenes of the movie '' P.S. I Love You'' in which the characters take a trip to Ireland. The pub is quoted in the film as follows: "''Denise, take Holly to Whelan's, my favourite pub. There's beautiful music to be heard, beautiful people to be around'' ". Notable acts Many Irish and international acts have performed at Whelan's, including: * Airbourne * Andy Irvine & Dick Gaughan * Arctic Monkeys * Bloc Party * Brave Giant * Christy Moore * Damien Rice * David Kitt * Dum Dum Girls * Ed Sheeran * Fight Like Apes * Hozier * Josh Ritter * Kate Nash * Mumford & Sons * Nick Cave * Paddy Casey * Shed Seven * Something Happens * The Academic The Academic are an Irish indie rock band, formed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Before Larry Was Stretched
"The Night Before Larry Was Stretched" is an Irish execution ballad written in the Newgate cant. History The song is in ''The Festival of Anacreon'', with tune direction "To the hundreds of Drury I write." It is also listed in Colm Ó Lochlainn's ''Irish Street Ballads'' and Frank Harte's ''Songs of Dublin''. Donagh MacDonagh gives the following sleeve note 'One of a group of Execution Songs written in Newgate Cant or Slang Style in the 1780s, others being ''The Kilmainham Minuet'', ''Luke Caffrey's Ghost'' and ''Larry's Ghost'' in which, as promised in the seventh stanza of the present ballad, Larry comes "in a sheet to sweet Molly"!' The Newgate Cant or Slang Style is not unique to Dublin and all the cant and slang is to be found in Partridge's ''A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English'' (1937). Nubbing cheat or Nubbin chit is cant for the gallows, while Darkmans is cant for night. Joyce, working out of Thomas Dekker's ''The Gul's Hornbook and The Belman of London' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vale Of Avoca
Vale of Avoca is the name of a large viaduct which carries St. Clair Avenue East over a ravine of the same name, in Toronto, Canada. Located just east of Yonge Street, the current triple arch bridge, also known as the St. Clair Viaduct, was built to connect the well-established community of Deer Park with the developing community of Moore Park in the 1920s. The bridge replaced an older structure and straightened the alignment of St. Clair Avenue in the process. A small channelized tributary of the Don River, known as Yellow Creek, weaves beneath the central span. Much of David A. Balfour Park (named for the Toronto city councillor) consists of a nature trail that winds through the Vale of Avoca Ravine; the park also includes a grassy recreational area near an inlet into which Yellow Creek flows. The bridge and the ravine it crosses is named after a poem by Thomas Moore. History The first bridge over the Vale of Avoca was an iron bridge, built in 1888. The bridge was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jackets Green
''Jackets Green'' is an Irish ballad by Michael Scanlan concerning an Irish woman and her beloved, Donal, an Irish soldier fighting in the Jacobite army of Patrick Sarsfield in the Williamite War. Like many "patriotic" Irish ballads, it pays little heed to actual history, containing at its core the fallacious claim that Sarsfield's men wore green uniforms. In fact, the regiments of the Irish Brigade (France), initiated by the Jacobite soldiers under Sarsfield's command wore red uniforms. Background The French and Irish troops fighting for James II of England and VII of Scotland (known as Séamas a' Caca, or James the Shit, in Irish after he fled the Battle of the Boyne, abandoning his supporters) had fought their way back to Limerick. Here, the French leader Lauzun declined to defend the city against the pursuing Williamites, saying it could be taken "with rotten apples". He led his troops to Galway and returned to France with all his men and cannons, leaving the Irish in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Barry (song)
"Kevin Barry" is a popular Irish rebel song recounting the death of Kevin Barry, a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who was hanged on 1 November 1920. He was 18 years old at the time. He is one of a group of IRA members executed in 1920–21 collectively known as The Forgotten Ten. The ballad was penned shortly after his death by an author whose identity is unknown. Barry's family investigated this in the 1920s, but were only told it was the work of an Irish emigrant living in Glasgow. Some sources claim that it was written by Terrence Ward, a journalist, but this is incorrect: he actually wrote another song about Barry. (At the very least it seems that nobody is actively claiming copyright of this song.) It is sung to the melody of "Rolling Home to Dear Old Ireland" (also known as "Rolling Home to" several other places). It has been performed by many Irish groups including The Wolfe Tones and The Clancy Brothers. The American singer Paul Robeson included it in this al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
