Feck yer fancy Spanish storms.
With St Patrick’s Day now just a matter of weeks away, I am compiling a St Patrick’s Day Playlist which will be posted on Broadsheet on March 17.
And I have a shamrock-friendly Golden Discs voucher worth €25 on offer for the best of YOUR suggestions.
To enter, simply tell me below what song by a foreign artist about Ireland should I include?
The winner will be chosen by my Irish setter.
Lines MUST close at 6am Saturday!
Nick says: Go n’eiri an bothar leat.
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Come out ye Black & Tans – Alan Partridge
Nationalism is NOT allowed on this site.
If you don’t like it then go back to your own website.
…not nationalism…that’s dead and buried with Mallon…this is republicanism…albeit the musical wing…
Galway Girl – Steve Earl and NOT Ed Sheeran
I realise it’s very much of its time; but 40 Shades of Green has an interesting background:
People are sometimes surprised to learn that it was written by Johnny Cash following a holiday here in 1959.
Given Cash’s profile, it can’t have done the Irish tourist industry any harm.
(It must have contributed to the title of 50 Shades of Grey?).
Give Ireland back to the irish
https://youtu.be/r0zGVVcsbPg
From Galway to Graceland by Richard Thompson
Boney M – Belfast
https://youtu.be/SgSuSj-6_C4
Hehehehehehe
Bodger,
Every time I comment, I automatically get taken to an ad for something distinctly unpleasant. Hook-up sites and the like.
It’s really poo.
And for posting that, I got palm reading.
me too, I just zap out, dudes gotta pay the bills I guess
This is true; not really the ads that bother me, just the content, or what Bodger’s algorithms are trying to tell me.
Ah now Bertie.
Try this one: Orbital – Belfast
https://youtu.be/oewMXXbl5O0
Kate Bush – Mná na hÉireann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shV-tT8cY-A
Not a nomination but a real oddity: a paean to Bobby Sands in Welsh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeyw5zP0NlY
Luke kelly song for ireland. His last great recording considering he was dying when singing it. So full of emotion
Written by Phil and June Colclough. Both English. And it’s a lovely song. Love Luke Kelly’s version of it.
The Suburbs – Arcade Fire. They were so influenced by their time living in Ranelagh as students, that not only did they write a song about it but a whole album.
Randy Newman “Kathleen (Catholicism made easier) “
I’d go for either Clonakilty As Charged or On the Road to Tralee by Julian Cope as featured on his album Drunken Songs.
https://www.headheritage.co.uk/drunken-songs/
the Leprechaun Brothers, singing a little ditty by Frederic Weatherly from Portishead (the place not the band)
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=danny+boy+muppets#id=1&vid=739ea9573c14ddf41f0bea669d6d16b2&action=click
and for an encore
second generation langers, The Irish Rodents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeeKsNAkIrA
John Lennon – The Luck of the Irish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihCmhlVnRDU
‘Abigail, Belle of Kilronan’ – Magnetic Fields
Joni Mitchell – The Magdalene Laundries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_KK6qOlb30
Radiohead. How to Disappear Completely
‘I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey
I’m not here
This isn’t happening’
Bagatelle: Stank like hell?
Yorke: I’m not here. I’m not here.
‘Belfast to Boston’ by James Taylor.
https://youtu.be/_Y2yy0Rho1Q
The cheat here has to be Andy Irvine, born in London and stalwart of the trad
scene, so he has tons of material to suggest. I was lucky enough to win Nick’s Tickets to see Andy and Donal Lunny at whelans last year. This is Planxty doing ‘West Coast of Clare’:
https://youtu.be/G0QVpDN6aQg
Michel Sardou – ‘Les lacs du Connemara’ (1981) A massive no.1 hit in France. Thirty years later, Sardou received a “Freedom of Connemara” award for having generated so much French tourism in the region – although he’d never even been to Ireland when he wrote the song. It’s gas is all I can say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixMBOxSs6LA
Well as no playlist is complete without a Solidarity-era Polish rock ballad, you obviously have to include Kobranocka: Kocham cię jak Irlandię (I love you like Ireland)
https://youtu.be/hdUWHSlvgxg
Nana Mouskouri did a lovely Danny Boy in 1976 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8ogpW0eNbQ
Her Báidín Fheilimí is impressive too!
Prefab Sprout- Dublin
Has to be Sardou and Les Lacs du Connemara.
The Fields of Athenry by the Century Steel Band is its finest version! Proper Ska. It’s kinda soothing too if we haven’t done so well at the Six Nations…just chill man. This will ear worm your weekend fo sure and get dose hips jiggin’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMK-xz2mofs
Dylan’s version of Easy and Slow, from Rolling Thunder Bootleg Series. Or his Arthur McBride, from Good As I Been To You.
The Smiths – Panic
… there’s panic on the streets of Carlisle
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMykYSQaG_c
Michel Sardou – Les Lacs du Connemara
A lovely french ballad that’s half touristy shlock, half political allegory about the North.
Here’s one for the purists.
https://youtu.be/D7_DzFKP0kA
Astralasia & suns of arqa – sul e stomp
It’s not an Irish band, (Italiano) or even playing an instrument associated with our fair isle (Scottish Bagpipes) but, by-jaysus, if it played at a parade or concert in Ireland would cause hilarious patriotic mayhem!
Band: Sídh (Gaeilge/Gaelic for Fairy or Spirit)
Tune: Irridium
https://youtu.be/amJ_WLmOKS0
I dare you all to blast this out and not get a stirring deep in your wind-swept Irish soul.