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Thanks Eugene enjoyed that . 😁

He may have left the cross at Finnoe but his heart was in Tipperary wherever he'd go.😉

Thanks for that interesting bit of history. I first heard this song sung by Tony McCauley in a pub in Cookstown. I went home and asked my mother if she knew the song. To my surprise, she sang me the whole song. She was from Draperstown. I grew up there myself and spent my childhood in view of Slieve Gallon.

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I don't think that Kavanagh just set his poem to Fáinne Geal an Lae. His poem is a modern urban recreation of the older folk song. The elusive lover disappearing in the final verse. That is the basic motif of the Aisling genre. That is not to detract in any way from another excellently researched documentary.

👏🍀💚Clár faisnéise iontach arís, mar is gnáth/Another wonderful presentation, as usual Eoghan/Eugene. FYI, T J Kiernan was ÉIRE's/Ireland's first Ambassador to Australia (where I reside) as far as I understand.

Dolores Keane, Dolores Keane, Dolores Keane❣

Eugene, seans ar bith ar fhíseán ar chúlra ‘An Cailín Alainn’ ? macsuibhne.com/amhran/teacs/11.htm

I thought that it was written by Thomas P. Keenan from Cork also the line in the second verse was taught to me as : Where the girls are so gay and so hearty. None fairer in Erin go bragh. Not the sanitised version.😮

Interesting to note that Eva Gallgher was L.L.C.M i.e Licentiate of the London College of Music. Once again thanks for your hard work in presenting these to us.

My father loved this song and often sang it at weddings and gatherings. He came from the Shournagh area outside Blarney.

Hello Eugene, Is é an manach Dún Na nGall Mael Ísa Ua Brolchain a chum Deus Meus & fuair sé bás i LiosMór sa bhliain 1086. Is é seo an tséis is sine (go hoifigiúil) in Éirinn, ach an bhfuil Máirseáil Brian Ború níos sine? ruclips.net/video/owF60WWWrks/видео.htmlfeature=shared ruclips.net/video/ZL_g5H3NkzY/видео.htmlfeature=shared www.dib.ie/biography/ua-brolchain-mael-isu-a8714

Good job bro. Your voice reminds me of Mick Maloney

An interesting note: Maggie’sReply: Words by Luke Collin, music by J P Webster. ‘The past we can never recall Jamie, it fled with our youth long ago……’ 🗣️🎶🎼

Many, many thanks for this :-😊)

Thanks so much for this :-)

Thanks very much for that Eugene 🙂

Another fascinating well researched background story as usual. However, one little pedantic point if I may. To the best of my knowledge, the 1848 Rising took place in Ballingarry, Tipperary, not Ballingeary, which is in Cork.

Beautiful erudite rendition and wonderful singing of a truly haunting and beautiful song. My version is slightly different in that he wraps his son in his "coat a mhor (great coat)" and spirits him away. Thank you eugene for all your hard work and ensuring that the meanings and roots of these ballads are not lost and are available to one and all.

Wonderful.

Brilliant

Best version of this lovely ballad is the one sung by Michael O'Domnhaill

Again, I thought it was of greater "antiquity" when I first heard this song on an Albany, NY FM radio station in the '70s. Always chuckled when Christy Moore when doing an intro to Lisdoonvarna quipped "There are 32 counties in Ireland, Longford ,Westmeath and Roscommon".

Thank you for all the work you are doing to educate us.

👏☘💚Another outstanding presentation. I remember singing that song at home, just like the little Cork boy on Paddy Crosbie's TV Show 'The School Around The Corner'. Mention of Brendan Boyer, Tom Dunphy and The Royal Showband triggered a memory: Brendan Boyer's father played the magnificent Wurlitzer Theatre Organ at the Savoy Cinema in Limerick City during the interval. Back then, a movie might take two reels, requiring an intermission to allow the Projectionist time to switch over. That magnificent Organ would rise up like magic from the Orchestra Pit below the Stage, with Boyer Senior playing much-appreciated tunes. 🎼🎹🎶

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I knew of Ned Harrigan but always thought the song had "from the soil sprung". Ironically, the American Harrigan used the terms "gaugers" and "Granuaile", while some of the Irish groups replaced them with "policemen" and "Galway Bay" for international consumption.

This song is one of a kind

Thanks😊

....and thanks or the intro to Enda, he was never on my radar screen before, but sure, it's a big planet.

Eugene another great song thanks for posting

Ah! How have I only just found this channel?

Sung at every funeral in our area always brings a lump to the throat and imense pride the most magnificent and underated mountain in Ireland. Blessed to have one of the best views of it. One small point the article from newry actually refers to slieve gullion in kileavy south armagh of which ballintemple is a townland although rest of the history is on point

Léiriú den scoith!

Thank you for thiis! Great to be filled in.

Iontach/Fantastic! One correction to the lyrics though, De Valera didn't 'fight' at Boland's Mills. Cowardly, he holed up there, not committing his desperately needed troops to relieve those besieged in the GPO. His American Citizenship saved him from execution, as Britain needed American aid in WW1.

My late Mother loved this song. This is such an intetesting video, thankyou for it😊 WOW isnt Stephen McCracken the spit for Henry Joy😮

Thank you for putting a frame on this stirring song.

I love your work.

This song has been part of my life for a long time. I enjoyed both your commentary and rendition. Thanks.

Hi Eugene thanks for posting this song which my Mother sang keep up the good work

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Great video Eugene, and lovely that you were able to give prominence to my grandfather, Harry O'Rawe. A further interesting connection between Harry and the song is that he himself sailed to New York at least twice, looking for work in the mid 1920s and early 1930s when there was little to be had at home.

I thought my head would explode if I heard this song one more time til the Dubliners and Pogues got together on it. BTW, what is that little shout out the Pogues drummer yells just before the last line.

I play this tune at the end of every gig. Up Red Branch!!

Hi Eugene, these stories have a way of changing as more information is discovered. in 1767 Henrys Father signed a lease for a house on Carrickfergus street. Looks like they may have moved to High Street in the 1770s.

Such a beautiful version Eugene and a wonderful series of videos.

I've never read Toibin's novel but I always thought of the fellas in that scene as the old bachelors occupying various boarding houses and flats with nowhere to go on Christmas and the parish putting on a dinner for them. I'd see them myself in the '70s taking the train back, alone, into the city from Gaelic Park on a sweltering summer afternoon but they in their traditional countryman's garb of cap, dark suit coat and trousers. Those rides evoked similar emotions in me.

This was the tune to which my school rally (a La Salle institution) was sung. Thanks for providing the history of the song.

Well done Eugene, thank you VERY MUCH! Been singing this song with Luke Kelly in my car for years and today the question of its origins finally hit me. Your video made an excellent informative watch! Keep up the great work!