Sullivans John - Pecker Dunne, 1985
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2021
- Pecker Dunne performs ‘O’Sullivan John’ on ‘The Late Late Show’.
Born in Castlebar in 1932, Patrick Dunne’s father was a Traveller who made his living from busking, and his mother was from the settled community in Wexford. During his early years the family travelled, but eventually settled in Dublin.
Pecker Dunne followed in his father’s footsteps and as a teenager took to the road. He performed the length and breadth of Ireland at Fleadhanna Ceoil, country fairs, race meetings and football matches. In the 1960s he became part of the folk scene and appeared regularly with The Dubliners, and also busked in Europe, Australia and the United States.
In addition to the five string banjo, he mastered the mandolin and the fiddle, but it is his distinctive singing voice that is considered to be his truly unique gift.
A champion of Traveller culture, he celebrates the life of the Travelling Community in many of the songs in his repertoire.
‘O’Sullivan John’ also called ‘Sullivan’s John’ is his own composition. The song revolves around a man who wanted to join the Travellers, but had not envisaged exactly how hard life on the road could be.
Sullivan’s John to the road you’ve gone far away from your native home
You’re gone with the tinker’s daughter for along the road to roam
Sullivan’s John you won’t stick it long till your belly will soon get slack
Up along the road with a mighty load and your tool box up on your back.
This episode of The Late Late Show was broadcast on 6 April 1985 and was a special programme dedicated to the Traveller Community. The presenter is Gay Byrne. 
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Great concentration. They threw every challenge at him and he held it together. Nervous from being on tv. Off time crowd singer and the final boss was the entire crowd clapping off time. The man is a champion.
That clapping was incredible, I'm not sure it could have been worse.
Bastard of a crowd, undermining from the start.
He held firm played and sung the song with gusto.
The Pecker Dunne..
@@joewilson3575it could, but the lazy bums didn't try hard enough....
Alas, poor Pecker foolishly told the crowd to join in. You can by the looks on their faces that they knew what they were doing was terribly wrong 😆
He was a friend of my father. Often called to our house when I was young in the mid 70ths and sang with my father around the table. O, what days, Lord rest them all. 🙏
Brilliant,I'd say he was a great character...a brilliant musician
💙
You were blessed.
Gerry. Is that true about him coming round to your house? I'd love to chat more about it. Thank you
You were very lucky. I also grew up in the seventies and remember fondly the Fureys and Davy Arthur coming to our house in the midlands probably around 1976/77 as one of them had met my sister in London. A great time for Irish music.
Pecker an absolute legend fine singer & fine banjo player, a credit to the travelling community.
YEs and a cred to the human race
Had the pleasure of meeting this Gentleman in Lisdoonvarna in the the 70s, a truly great man and great company
A great powerful and yet melodious voice .God rest I saw him once singing at a fleadh ceoil in Templemore co tipperary.He couldn't drink what pints were bought for him . Where the pecker went .The crowd followed.
Pecker played regularly in my uncle and aunt's pub, the Grand Canyon, in Skibbereen during the 1970s. I lived 2 doors away and I remember hearing him singing and playing late into the night at the ballad sessions that were so popular back then.
Amazing performance, I loved it!
I have a smile and a tear.
Same💙
The very first time that I got to see Mr Pecker Dunne on TV or computer screen, telling his story, telling the history of flipping hard times, we all rightly complain about the disadvantaged, the downtrodden etc, but the traveling people of those times and before had the hardest times of all. To me, Pecker Dunne would have easily fitted in as one of the DUBLINERS,
Boy, are you ever right.
Definitely the Mary wollopers right now
@@Eddiewamblambbam I have to agree with you
Great artist and banjo player ! 🇮🇪
He was brilliant sadly missed RIP.🙏🙏
Great song brilliant 👏
What a voice! I liked his role in the band for the wedding reception in the film “Trojan Eddie”
Link?
@@johnmcgrath2022 can’t post links on RUclips, but it can be streamed for free without ads on Roku, and can be rented from Amazon
Rest in peace 🙏 🙏 🙏 PECKER 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Never heard of him on till the great Finbar fury would talk about him. 1st time I seen him or hear him sing. Thank for youtube. ❤
I remember this. God I'm old lol
Used to see him every year at the Munster hurling final. The end of an era.
Same here, John. Even from the football mad county of Mayo, I absolutely love hurling and many were the times on Munster Final days I dropped a few bob in the Pecker's 'case' as he strummed the banjo and sang a few songs while on we walked out from Thurles town to Semple Stadium. I used to love to see him there and stand and listen. Amazing memories. PS: Missing Gay Byrne too. He was the king of Irish television ...no one comes near.
Things just aren't the same. Lost so much of its character. It's sad to see the old Ireland dying. Even from I was a child in the 90s I can notice fierce difference to how things were. It's all changing.. modern Ireland.. certainly not for the better. They may have gained a few things but they have lost everything that made Ireland what it was. Ireland to me was the last pure part of Europe, a little island on the far West, that didn't hold much interest to others as there wasn't any way they could exploit it at the time, it had remained largely untouched by other influence. A rich, vibrant, organic culture. There was really no place like the old Ireland. Today a lot of it is just another bland European mini-state where the native people are treated as fools. Speaking of hurling, even hurling has changed. I played for years and the last match I saw I wondered what the heck they were doing. It seems to be played in a very different style to my day. I thought it was just me but I noticed DJ Carey saying pretty much the same thing in an interview too.
Ireland has changed and it's not all for the good. What I noticed when I watched this video though was Pecker Dunne's missing teeth. That's something you don't see so much these days, and thank God.
Man, this is great!
I met him in clarecastle in a famous bar owned by one of banners finest. I was a wee fella but remember it well
what a banjo player
Thank you for the rare video CR! If there's any more Pecker Dunne out there id love to see it (his style is unique and this video gives the clearest view of his hands I've yet seen!)
Seen him was great
Remember years ago stopping at Durty Nelly's Pub, just outside Limerick on my way home to West Clare..The Pecker was in full flight outside the pub singing & playing the Banjo..A tour bus arrived full of Americans of an elderly age group....out came the instamatic cameras and all the American standing and looking out of the bus amazed with this "foreign looking" Irish man....I could hear Pecker shouting at the bus driver..."reverse them in"..."reverse them in"
Perfect for Friday evening
As A kid I worked in the Avondale in Tramore (Mamsies) and during race week the talk was always "would Pecker be in". He would, dressed in a fringed cowboy jacket. He was an imposing figure and a great musician. Probably not appreciated at my my then age of about 13 but much more so now. (Yep 13 wortking in a pub till 1am lol)
What a legend
Least said about the audience the better, pecker and Liam Weldon two authentic street singers.
I remember Pecker Dunne when i was a kid..Forgot that there people like this before chav cash and coke took over the travellers.
Met him once got paid for the gig and still went round with the hat class
Fantastic 👍 🍀
The off time clapping attempt is gas. The Pecker keeps his own time.
I love how they all just kinda gave up 😂
Fun fact, Pecker Dunne is related to me. He’s my grannys first cousin.
And he would be also my mother's first cousin. Be great to see where we all fit on the family tree.
Hope you have some recordings friend
Ah he played in Michael js bar in Ballybunion..had many chats with him n lovely wife
When I first saw this I thought it was Luke Kelly lol 😊
A National treasure
As green as any man on Eire
Natural. Singer.❤.
Fantastic 👍 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Wished rte showed full old late late show series with Gay Byrne for fond memories
Great performance
I was there, I'm the one with the yellow socks, next to the woman with the sunglasses.
Amazing
@@AyUp_LG ...I know.....
All the Reilly's and McDonaghs were in that night and couldn't clap in time to save their lives, bless them
Good stuff!
Superb ❤ legend of West Clare ❤❤❤❤
Man, look at that crowd I wonder where we get the "Fighting Irish" from. Damn tough Irish people, Proud to be one of them.
Legend full stop!
Cheers 🥂❤️🚬
I had the same banjo 1963
To think Pecker was only 23 in this performance
that's a damn lie, he was 17 years of age
@@emilianosintarias7337 nah couldn’t be 17 look at his hands..maybe 20
@@emilianosintarias7337 you have got thai slightly wrong, this happened 3 days after his 11th borthday
@@jamesbradshaw3389 Thai? He’s Norwegian if my astronomy serves me correct
God bless the Pecker 🇮🇪
Reddit link sent me here . Shout out traveller community
I'm in awe at how obnoxious the audience is. I'm genuinely amazed he kept his concentration through the whole song.
Jesus christ where did that crowd get their timing all over theokace must if been hard for him indeed
Well done pecker well done
What a voice, up there with Ronnie's
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The best
Do you have the full show
What institution did they bus the audience in from ?
The audience - like characters from an episode of Father Ted.
The tinkers
The woman in white and the man with the brown hat in the audience done more damage to longford than an atomic bomb could have, with the children they bore
What's the significance of his chain with the triangle around his neck?
Possibly a friend of Bill's
@@lmtt123??
Thed wreak the place
Simon Callow's let himself go.
Arrayua....oh, no ..that's Basque, I mean, begorrah !!
Jesus, this audience does nothing to dispel the stereotypes of the Irish.
You can see the DNA manifesting in Pecker. Only now do we know something of his ancestors origins. And it shows around his eyes and in his lovely skin.