Let’s all sing along!
Danny Boy
Rose of Tralee
McNamara’s Band
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Toora-loora-loora
Did Your Mother Come From Ireland
and my favorite…
Who Threw The Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder
If you’re looking for something to watch but you may have missed. There’s the fantasticly funny In Bruges or the much more serious Wind That Shakes The Barley
That’s the alternative Anthem sang at Irish rugby internationals as players from both sides of the border play on the team. It’s best heard in it’s rightful place.
Here it is being sang by 80,000ish at Croke Park on one of the biggest days in Irish sport. It was the first time Ireland had played England in Croke Park(the home of Irish Gaelic sport). The blood was up. We slaughered them
Jonathan Rhys Myers!
Frank McCourt
Smithwicks This cartoon(“I sentence ya to the wearin’ of the green shoes!”
Shillelaghs
Jonathan Rhys Myers!
Irish Setters
I once saw on Saturday Night Live – can’t seem to find it on Youtube – an ad for an album of traditional Irish songs. There was “The Incoherent Song,” and “The Drinking and Fighting Song” (“We’ll drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and drink, then we’ll fight and fight and fight and fight and fight and fight and fight . . .”). It was from when John Lovitz was in the cast, because I remember him featured in a song about “Michael Sean Patrick Flanagan Goldstein the Drunken Irish Jew,” or something like that.