This is a list of songs about County Tipperary, Ireland. * “Any Tipperary town” -written by Pat Ely, recorded by many artists including Daniel O'Donnell. * “Brennan on the Moor” - 19th Century ballad. * "Cill Chais" - a lament related to the family at Kilcash Castle. * "The Bansha Peeler"Dick Hogan, Songs of Tipperary
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Éamonn an Chnoic "Éamonn an Chnoic" ("Ned of the Hill") is a popular Sean nos song in traditional Irish music. It is a slow, mournful ballad with a somber theme and no chorus. The song is attributed to Éamonn Ó Riain (Edmund O'Ryan) (d.c.1724), an early 18th c ...

" - about Éamonn Ó Riain, an

Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...

aristocrat who lived in

County Tipperary County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after th ...

from 1670 to 1724 and became a

rapparee Rapparees or raparees (from the Irish ''ropairí'', plural of ''ropaire'', whose primary meaning is "thruster, stabber," and by extension a wielder of the half-pike or pike), were Irish guerrilla fighters who operated on the Jacobite side duri ...

. * "Fair Clonmel" * "Flynn of Ballinure" * "

Galtee Mountain Boy "The Galtee Mountain Boy" is an Irish folk ballad, originally written by Patsy O'Halloran. Christy Moore added a fourth verse to O'Halloran's original three; this is the version that is most commonly performed. The song is a monologue, documentin ...

" * " The Glen of Aherlow" (also known as "Patrick Sheehan") - based on the true story of a young ex-soldier from the

Glen of Aherlow The Glen of Aherlow (Irish: ''Gleann Eatharlaí'') is a valley located between Slievenamuck and the Galtee Mountains in the western part of County Tipperary in Ireland. The principal village is Lisvarrinane (sometimes spelled Lisvernane). There ...

named Patrick Sheehan who was blinded at the Siege of Sevastopol. * "Goodbye Mick (Leaving Tipperary)" - recorded by P.J. Murrihy and by

Ryan's Fancy Ryan’s Fancy was an Music of Ireland, Irish folk music group active from 1971–1983. The band consisted of multi-instrumentalists Denis Ryan (singer), Denis Ryan, Fergus O'Byrne, and Dermot O'Reilly, all of whom were Ireland, Irish immigra ...

* “Home to Aherlow” * “

It's a Long Way to Tipperary "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" (or "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary") is an English music hall song first performed in 1912 by Jack Judge, and written by Judge and Harry Williams, though authorship of the song has long been disputed. It ...

”, British

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song written in 1912 by Henry James "Harry" Williams and co-credited to

Jack Judge John "Jack" Judge (3 December 1872 – 25 July 1938) was a Anglo-Irish songwriter and music-hall entertainer best remembered for writing the song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary". Judge originally wrote and sang the song in 1912, but the far more ...

. * "The Hills Of Killenaule" - music by Liam O’Donnell and lyrics by Davy Cormack, both from

Killenaule Killenaule () is a small town and civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Killenaule and Moyglass, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, and the barony of Slievardagh. It is east of ...

* "Michael Hogan" * "Munster Hurling Final" * "My Old Tipperary Home" * “Rare Clonmel” * "Seán Treacy" - ballad about Seán Treacy, leader of the

Third Tipperary Brigade The 3rd Tipperary Brigade () was one of the most active of approximately 80 such units that constituted the IRA during the Irish War of Independence. The brigade was based in southern Tipperary and conducted its activities mainly in mid-Munster ...

, IRA, who was killed in Dublin in 1920Desmond Ryan: Sean Treacy and the 3rd Tipperary Brigade (see Appendix). The Kerryman, Tralee, 1945. * "She Lived Beside The Anner" * "Slievenamon" - one of the best-known

Tipperary Tipperary is the name of: Places *County Tipperary, a county in Ireland **North Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Nenagh **South Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Clonmel *Tipperary (town), County Tipperary's na ...

songs, written by

Charles Kickham Charles Joseph Kickham (9 May 1828 – 22 August 1882) was an Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist and one of the most prominent members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Early life Charles Kickham was born at Mullinahone, County ...

* "Sliabh na mBan" - an Irish-language song composed by Michéal O Longáin of Carrignavar and translated by

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, about the massacre in July 1798 of a party of Tipperary insurgents at Carrigmoclear on the slopes of

Slievenamon Slievenamon or Slievenaman ( ga, Sliabh na mBan , "mountain of the women") is a mountain with a height of in County Tipperary, Ireland. It rises from a plain that includes the towns of Fethard, Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir. The mountain is ste ...

Terry Moylan (Ed.): ''The Age of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition, 1776 to 1815'' *”Tipperary on my Mind” * "Strolling Through Tipperary" * "Streets of Mulllinahone" * "Tipperary Hills For Me" * "The Tipperary Christening" * "Tipperary Far Away" * "Tipperary" - a love song written in 1907 by Leo Curley, James M. Fulton and J. Fred Helf. * "The Station of Knocklong" * "Shanagolden" - written by Seán McCarthy. Recorded by Connie Foley, among others.LP: Connie Foley Sings Ireland's Favourite Ballads * "The Further it is From Tipperary" by

Jack Norworth John Godfrey Knauff (January 5, 1879 – September 1, 1959), known professionally as Jack Norworth, was an American songwriter, singer and vaudeville performer. Biography Norworth is credited as writer of a number of Tin Pan Alley hits. He wr ...

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Irish ballads The following are often-sung Irish folk ballads and folk songs. The songs are arranged by theme under the categories "Politics and soldiering" and "Non-political" and are not necessarily contemporary to the events to which they relate. Songs ma ...

Irish styles of music *Tipperary *Tipperary

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