In Ireland, we celebrate weddings & funerals with the same energy. We celebrate someones life (who has died) & celebrate the start of a couples life together. With massive piss up. 🥃🍺🥂
Yes..I said out loud at my Dad's funeral, in England, (he was Irish).. Oh.. Dad would have LOVED this! says it all. lol. My Mother' side of the family.. not her.. were a bit more strait laced let say.. and were a bit sniffy. No one was out of order on the Irish side.. but compared to the other side.. a distinct lack of stuffiness at the wake.
@@mariahoulihan9483 There's a video of an Irish folk band in an airport waiting room & they burst into song & when you the camera scans around the room. You can visibly see all the Irish people joining in singing & who the English people in that room are. Because they're sitting there, bemused lol
There's a saying in Scotland that there's more fun at a Glasgow funeral than there is at an Edinburgh wedding, it's true. Been to too many funerals in Scotland, England and both sides of the Irish border the Scots and Irish have similar energy at funerals.
I’m English I’m Irish decent my grandmother grandfather mother and father was all born and raised in Ireland I’ve been to many Irish weddings and I can confirm the weddings do go on to all hours in the morning and once the music stops the singing starts!!! 🇮🇪 ☘️ 🍻
We love a good funeral here in Ireland. And weddings are usually stretched over a couple of days now. At a wedding the hotel usually has a residents bar open and that’s what you’re seeing here. She would have been singing that from childhood and probably at every session and family get together for years. We love our sing songs here 😊 Just brilliant 🤩 🇮🇪
I took the day off work once to go to a funeral. Massive drinking afterwards, and great craic. The only thing missing was Jay, the deceased. I got to work the next day with the mother of all hangovers. "Thought you went to a funeral" they said. I replied "an Irish funeral". "Ah..."
If you spun that camera further around i betcha thers a few kids asleep on chairs pulled together 😂😂 with their dads suit jacket as a blanket 😂 i have memories of this as a flower girl at wedding as a kid in Ireland 😂😂
I attended a few of my cousins' weddings in Ireland and they generally last three days. The church, the reception until daybreak (almost), everyone gets some sleep in the morning, showers then head to the parents' of the couple for more partying, and this goes on the next day, too. Funerals and wakes can last a week. I grew up in Australia (in the Irish diaspora) and funerals went for at least 3 days there; weddings were dependent on location. If a wedding or wake took place in the outback which involved travelling long distances, then all gatherins were at least a week long.
You drink between each verse and the longer you make it the more you drink! That's how we do it! (Born and bred in Ireland) American bluegrass was born out of irish music after the Irish emigration to the USA. Thats why there are similarities ❤
I’m southern English, in the mid nineties I started living with an Irish woman, no one knows folk music until you have been around the Irish, or the pogues
Hi Steve just came across your channel. What lovely comments you had. There’s definitely one thing the Irish can do so well and that’s have a great night out, if it’s just a weekend wedding or our country playing sports and going to the pub/bar we definitely know how to have a great night and get everyone involved into all hours of the morning. I don’t know this song myself but it looks like there unwinding I guarantee at about 2/3 am they where up dancing singing arms around each other having an amazing time but it gets to the point where people obviously start getting tired going to bed the ones that can hang in there longer will tend to sit around just like themselves and sing songs or tell stories and unwind. That’s beautiful to hear you want to know more about your ancestors and be proud of that, being a Dubliner lived in the states for 10 years I have to say coming home just missed and loved how friendly and welcoming the Irish are compared to other countries no disrespect. Very proud to be Irish, again so nice to see you embrace your ancestors how far back are we talking?if ya don’t mind me asking…
Best wedding I ever went to was a friend's aunt, in Donegal. I was treated like family. The whole event evolved over a long weekend, and the actual day culminated in the Priest joining us for a pub crawl and sing along after the main reception. Many drinks, songs, and pubs later my friend and I staggered back to the family's house at dawn 👍😂🍻🍷🍾🎉😎
This video just blew my mind but not because of the singing, which I am well used to at family events but I only realized at the end that this was in a wedding venue i worked in for 5 years in Co. Tipperary. Was not expecting to see it here
That's the bride in white sitting on the groom's lap and her sister is doing the singing. The 'stayers' are still up and partying at 8am when others are coming down for their breakfast. The 'legends' are still up and partying on the Monday morning at 8am when the hotel is considering calling outside assistance to get rid of them... Irish weddings are usually 'alright' or f**king legendary!!!
Flee on on the feather, feather on the wing, wing on the chick, chick in the egg, egg in the nest, nest on the leaf, leaf on the twig, twig on the stick, stick on the branch, branch on the tree, tree in the hole, hole in the bog, bog down in the valley O. Many versions, I learnt this one in the Scouts!
Some of my fondest memories of when i was young was going to see my Uncle play in an popular irish fok band in Southern Ireland at the time called The Wexford Emeralds, two acoustic guitars and a singer loved the energy of the jigs the atmosphire was electric and the ballads, the singer (John Aspal's) voice was so amazing it stired emotions in me even though i was only 12 or 13 and born in England, i knew little of Irish history other then what my Mother told me and didn't really comprehend or truely understand the passion in the song or catch the connection to Mother' side of the family untill i was trying research to my mothers branch of the family tree, on the web early 2000 'early into the linternet age but found very little and only one clip of my Uncle playing in the Band on TV when looking to record some of the songs my Uncle sung which was frusttrating because i know they released several Albums and recorded for TV a lot more then once they were good enough to be invited to and play in The Royal Albert Hall in london I told my Mother (God rest her soul) i was trying find Uncle Paddiy's Band, The Wexford Emerld online but no luck, she said to me "no it maybe because they are Irish rebel songs writtern fron the time of William of Orange invasion of Ireland when the Dutchman was given the crown of England and became Edward the 1st including the irish uprising of 1916 and the two world war and would have been baned in England" and then calmly added " Your Grandad was considered as "Persona non grata" in England meaning unwelcome person i wont go into the details now this comment is long enough already, its for another time, its a long story, if you would like to know more about this i'll be happy tell you, just let me know if you do So my Uncle may have been cosidered the same because of subject of the songs he sang being mainly anti English Establishment. but are still beautiful emotive songs, sung with passion and pride. i remember the words to most of the song they sang, as i grew older i learnt more of the poignancy and meaning behind the lyriics, I've allways loved irish folk music but since ny Mother passed away at the end of 2021 i find it hard to listen to a folk song in an Irish accent without my emotions overwelmimg me, even writing this has been an emotiohnal rollacoster, i have lernt more irish history in folk music then i ever learnt in school i went to a Romen Catholic School in England, 99% of the pupils were either Irish or Italian and pupils born in England but had irish or Italian parents, even four of our teachers were Irish Nuns but they only taught Dogma and refused to discuss anything that wasn't ordained in thier holy orders to God and would fly in to a rage if we asked question about Evolution, Aliens, Dinosaurs, the age of our planet, Pagan festivals and Traditions usurped into christianity ect , ect, ect basicly anything that conflicts with Doctrine, so no hope of learning any reality there then, you are more likly able to access a lot more imformation from the Irish prospective living in the US then i ever have living in England
I will say one thing and I will keep it to one thing that I want to say the woman and the group singing at that wedding were the best how they made the choreography of the music singing through the melody of however they were doing it is amazing this is by far one of the greatest traditional Irish songs backdated history and they will never ever ever ever ever be anybody that does it better than this Irish wedding and that's that
Us Irish happen to get married at a party. My wedding, DJ got drunk, that's fine was a friend of ours. My husbands uncle in law took over "Djaying". To this day people talk of the best wedding they were at (23 years later and a divorce). The girl singing is the sister of the bride, in white to her left as you look at the screen. Sweet moment when the singers new brother in law picked up her drink for her to take a sip during the chorus.
Loved that video. My Irish great-gran used to say the best Irish weddings always had a fight somewhere during the celebrations but all were best friends forever at the end of it.
Irish weddings are the best craic.Come to one of Ireland 32 counties and experience in a bar this. One night close to the British border in Ireland there was a bar. I was serving myself drinks in the bar, and then Garda and psni came in and started drinking with us too until 6/7am. Love bandit country
5am is pretty standard stuff. We've probably been drinking since 11 am or so. Then, everyone with the wedding heads into the residents' bar in the hotel
In my old pub in England a few years back, was an old Irish fella not just any old Irish fart, no legs type Irish man , I had this on my phone he liked it so much I nearly had him dancing x
My brothers wedding in Scotland in a extreamly well known hotel was so much fun. It was the first time a rock band played in the hotel. When we were doing the scottish dancing there were so many taking part it ran into the hall , we were screaming (as you do) and throwing each other about. There were loads off foreners who loved the Bag Pipes and Address to the Haggis and the open bar (unusual at a Brittish wedding). They were supprised at how wild it was and how long it went on. Thanks Stu for the Full Scottish bfast the next morning, etc. Although i didn't go for Champagne that morning.
Not sure what you mean by open bar,but at my brothers wedding 20 years ago in ireland ,because he lived in england aand was marrying an english girl they had a free,but it didn't translate and it quickly returned to an ordinary bar.Free bars are rare at weddings in ireland i mean its enough to pay for the dinners nevermind the drink aswell for 200 or so guests which would be about average at an irish wedding.
my son was also married in a well known hotel on loch lomend, i was concerned i wouldn't survive danceing the Ceilidh but as luck would have it, by then i was to drunk to stand, problem solved, good result in my books 👍😃
@@raymoorey8296 iv stayed at the hotel your talking about it had a huge fire a few years back, lovely place. My brothers do had eagles?! My uncle is a farmer and had bought a sheep that had 2 nights in the car park.
@@gallowglass2630 open bar is a free bar thank god 2 drinks cost me £16 this is 18 years ago. The night before was in a difrent place food fantastic and open bar, we are Scottish the bride is Irish Scottish.
I wouldn't be a heavy drinker myself - but I can honestly say I've never been told to leave an Irish pub because it's closing time - they would just have a "Lock in".....! One time many years ago I left a bar and I was drunk - the local police sergeant met me at the door and asked where my car was - i pointed in the general direction - he took me to my car put me in the passenger seat and drove me home - with another officer following in the patrol car to collect him - only in Ireland...!
Yes absolutely! At least 5am if not dawn and then it starts again the next day when the pubs open! Residents Bar is the Hotels at weddings stay open til about 6am. The second day is often better because the pressure is off the bride. Second day starts at 11am with usually a band in the pub, trad band, drinking games, then DJ later and again the Hotel Residents bar!
I usually go to bed around 10pm, latest... I was born, bred and breathe Ireland...I was convinced on my wedding night I'd be in bed for 2am (weird for someone in Ireland on their wedding day)...it was 5am...and my extended family started arriving at my house 5 hours later, which ended up being 60 people drinking by 2pm...I was holding my larynx trying to talk. Great craic, sign me up again 🎉
Drinks drinks and more drinks the Irish are amazing , my nephew married an Irish lass and I told the father of the bride I love guiness and every time I looked there was another drink in front of me. I’m an American whose livespd in England since 1975. The celts , the Welsh Irish and Scottish are the best 😊
Steve, no drinking Game. Believe me. We just love singing and dancing in Ireland. The drinking just carries on alongside every one of these occasions. The Wedding itself if very formal, but after the speeches And the meal etc. the craic really begins. These things usually last two days. When my brother got Married 30 years ago, my late uncle lost his job for not Getting back to work for 5 days😂😂God help us!
Rattlin' Bog Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Real Bog, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Well in the bog there was a hole, A rare hole and a rattlin' hole, And the hole in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o. Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Real Bog, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Well in that hole there was a tree, A rare tree and a rattlin' tree, And the tree in the hole, And the hole in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o. Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Real Bog, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. on that tree there was a branch, A rare branch and a rattlin' branch, And the branch on the tree, And the tree in the hole, And the hole in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o. Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. on that branch there was a limb, A rare limb and a rattlin' limb, And the limb on the branch, And the branch on the tree, And the tree in the hole, And the hole in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o. Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Real bog, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Well on that limb there was a nest, A rare nest and a rattlin' nest, And the nest on the limb, And the limb on the branch, And the branch on the tree, And the tree in the hole, And the hole in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o. Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Real bog, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Now in that nest there was a bird, A rare bird and a rattlin' bird, And the bird in the nest, And the nest on the limb, And the limb on the branch, And the branch on the tree, And the tree in the hole, And the hole in the bog, down in the valley-o. Ho, ho, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Real bog, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. In that bird there was an egg, A rare egg and a rattlin' egg, And the egg on the bird, And the bird in the nest, And the nest on the limb, And the limb on the branch, And the branch on the tree, And the tree in the bog, And the hole in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o. Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Real bog, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. In that egg there was a bird, A rare bird and a rattlin' bird, And the bird on the egg, And the egg on the bird, And the bird in the nest, And the nest on the limb, And the limb on the branch, And the branch on the tree, And the tree in the bog, And the hole in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o. Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. Real bog, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o. ... ... Real bog, the rattlin' bog, The bog down in the valley-o.
My two daughters' weddings lasted all night in the hotel.....followed by another party in a marquee in our garden the following day with music song dancing of course plenty of drinks including kegs of Guinness 😂😂😂
It's not a drinking game. Its tend to be sung late at night. Love how your enjoying our music. Come to Ireland soon & let us know. Sure, there'll be a wedding on somewhere 🇮🇪🤣🇮🇪
Totally agree about weddings "having to be perfect". I was best man on one occasion and during the actual ceremony I discovered I'd lost the bride's ring.
I don't know if anyone else can confirm this, when I first saw this video a few years ago I am sure someone said the girl singing is the brides sister, the bride is the girl in white sat on the guys lap, I think someone else said the guy she was sat on was their brother, anyone know is this is correct. I loved the song and she has an amazing voice
Indeed. The singer is Clodagh, the bride in white is sister Patrice, and Patrice is seated on their brother Ronan's lap. They've been singing this together since they were little.
The Wedding goes on till about 2 am but the Resident bar in the Hotel for people staying there stays open until all hours. Even when you aren't at a wedding the Resident bar is open late. I stayed in Killarney once and we were in the resident bar until nearly 5 am drinking
Wakes used to great craic as well but stop it a few years back as it was going overboard, still give the deceased person a good send off though after the funeral.
In fairness, I'd say this is maybe 03:00am. Bars in hotels, (where weddings are hosted) close around this time. Some hotels will continue serving staying guests. Rural weddings get away with murder with residents bars though.
That's an Irish wedding for ya , the Irish know how to party 🎉 they play hard & work hard ,music & fun aka ceol Agus craic is a huge part of Irish life .
Years ago a friend of mine from Belfast told me how he spent a few days out in Arran island in the West of Ireland. He said he went to the bar at around 1am for another drink and asked the bar man when the pub shut. After thinking for a minute he replied "I think it shuts in September for a couple of days". 😅
Rattlin Bog is one of quite a few songs that 'build' with each verse, in Irish/British folklore, the best known possibly being the children's rhyme, "One man went to mow." In country districts there are often local versions too - and sometimes the songs have accompanying dances, either for children or more generally. Back in my Sunday School days for example (50+ years ago), we had a party song/game, "The farmer's in his den..." In the second verse, it was "The famer wants a wife.."; the third was, "The wife wants a child...", then "The child wants a dog..." followed by "The dog wants a bone - in each case, someone in the room being chosen to represent the latest 'want'. In the last verse however, it's "The bone won't break.." with everyone surrounding the poor 'bone' and hammering it from all directions! A further song might be the Old woman who swallowed a fly, then a spider, then a bird, then a cat, then a dog, then a cow, and finally a horse, rhyming with, "But now she's dead - of course." Others are distinctly more adult in their content, such as "The Ball of Kirriemuir," which is said to have been an actual event that took place in that Scottish town, in the 1880s. Here are a couple of the cleaner versions: ruclips.net/video/RAC9aeEM-nU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/qSc1xfkdSYQ/видео.html I'm not sure that any drinking game has any particularly 'set' rules as, if they've been sat up drinking all night, most of them will be too drunk to stick to them anyway - but again, there may be local versions!
weddings in Ireland are a Major piss-up( party) but they are dressy events usually because they are held in Fancy Hotels AND Irish people love to go out socially and rock great looks all the time (so weddings are where you step it up ) but it's def not stuffy it's the Reverse!
Weddings are now turning into 2 days sessions straight through some go to bed maybe 5 or 6am and back on it by 11am for the day and night . Some just do the 48hrs straight through..😂😂😂 so the game is to drink after the singer ads the new part to each verse so ( and on the branch there was a twig a rare twig a rattling twig) as she then starts to work her way back through the list everyone is suppose to chug or the smart ones just slowly continously sipping their beer and then everyone joins in for the chorus..
Awh that woman's a lovely singer, I'm sure she could sing anything but to make The Rattlin Bog sound good and flow like that is a great achievement; let alone remember all the words! 😂 I think l heard one of the party say Go Hiontach at the end of it all which is a show of admiration for her, like Bravo or Well done! I would say this is her party piece and that is not the first time she sang it as l find it very hard to remember anything after the chick and that's sober, l wouldn't have a hope of remembering the order if l had been drinking for most of the day 🤣 Irish Weddings can be a 48hr event with possibly a cat nap from 6am to 8am depending on what time the hotel is serving breakfast at!
I'm from England but my uncle was Irish and my Surname is Irish as is o,dwyer which my uncles last name was. He was a great craic as the Irish say 😂 but that was amazing,loved it ❤
Same here, I am also from England, Liverpool But my Maternal grandmother was born in Ireland, her maiden name was O`Brien . The Irish certainly know how to enjoy themselves 👍👍
It's a fun "memory" song. The story gets longer and longer between choruses. The drunker you are the fewer of the words you can remember. She has a Tipperary accent......"It's a long way to Tipperary."
5am is early for an Irish wedding, the formal part of it ends after the ceremony, we just celebrate after that, best days out, as are funerals if the person has had a good long life.
My mums best friends ( a couple from Ireland ) would invite her round for dinner a a few drinks never was a few lol they were the loveliest people unfortunately they've both passed on atnd mum too but I like to think of them all up there having a good chat and laugh . 😊
@@reactingtomyroots Aparrently you have to keep adding words every time the verse is repeated.It starts with a bird then there is the flea on the bird and then amoeba on the flea and then bacteria and probably it finnishes with virus.
I grew up in Ulster and we sang this song at Scout camps in the 1980s. When I was at University in Leicester, England, I tried to teach the song to a local Scout group and their parents at a Halloween bonfire. One smartarse shouted out, "Speak English. We can't understand you!" I replied to him with a joke; 'Why were the Irish born stupid?' "Why?" He says. 'So the English can understand us.' That shut him up.
Great video man! If you want to hear some more modern Irish music, there's a rap group called "Kneecap", who are based in Belfast, and they rap in the Irish language (Gaeilge) as well as in english, most of their songs have an interesting 50/50 mix of the english and Irish language, absolutely recommend! They have a song called "HOOD" that would be good to start with
I have yet to go to an Irish wedding of a close friend or family member that didn’t carry on till breakfast if you wanted to. You might go home at 2-3 for a less important wedding. The singing starts after midnight.😂and everyone is expected to sing talented or not.
Only difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish funeral is 1 less drunk person 🇮🇪
Word 😂
In Ireland, we celebrate weddings & funerals with the same energy. We celebrate someones life (who has died) & celebrate the start of a couples life together. With massive piss up. 🥃🍺🥂
Yes..I said out loud at my Dad's funeral, in England, (he was Irish).. Oh.. Dad would have LOVED this! says it all. lol. My Mother' side of the family.. not her.. were a bit more strait laced let say.. and were a bit sniffy. No one was out of order on the Irish side.. but compared to the other side.. a distinct lack of stuffiness at the wake.
@@mariahoulihan9483 There's a video of an Irish folk band in an airport waiting room & they burst into song & when you the camera scans around the room. You can visibly see all the Irish people joining in singing & who the English people in that room are. Because they're sitting there, bemused lol
There's a saying in Scotland that there's more fun at a Glasgow funeral than there is at an Edinburgh wedding, it's true.
Been to too many funerals in Scotland, England and both sides of the Irish border the Scots and Irish have similar energy at funerals.
That's not true for all of us. I do not go to pubs when I lose a loved one. You may and that's fine, but a lot of us do not do that.
@@delgirldel That's you. But you must know you're in the tiny minority, in that regard.
I'm Irish and singing along!!! Pretty much all Irish people know this song !! And our weddings are epic
Haha I watched this as it was the rattlin bog. I had this song stuck in my head for weeks a few years ago. I will gladly put it back.
Yes, I dang along!
I’m English I’m Irish decent my grandmother grandfather mother and father was all born and raised in Ireland I’ve been to many Irish weddings and I can confirm the weddings do go on to all hours in the morning and once the music stops the singing starts!!! 🇮🇪 ☘️ 🍻
We love a good funeral here in Ireland. And weddings are usually stretched over a couple of days now. At a wedding the hotel usually has a residents bar open and that’s what you’re seeing here. She would have been singing that from childhood and probably at every session and family get together for years. We love our sing songs here 😊 Just brilliant 🤩 🇮🇪
I took the day off work once to go to a funeral. Massive drinking afterwards, and great craic. The only thing missing was Jay, the deceased.
I got to work the next day with the mother of all hangovers. "Thought you went to a funeral" they said. I replied "an Irish funeral". "Ah..."
If you spun that camera further around i betcha thers a few kids asleep on chairs pulled together 😂😂 with their dads suit jacket as a blanket 😂 i have memories of this as a flower girl at wedding as a kid in Ireland 😂😂
The whole world loves Ireland and the Irish. They have to be protected.
I've been at weddings here in Ireland where the singing and drinking went on 'till the breakfast arrived the following morning.😂😂❤
Would love to go to a wedding like that & she has a beautiful voice, all wedding should be celebrated like this
I attended a few of my cousins' weddings in Ireland and they generally last three days. The church, the reception until daybreak (almost), everyone gets some sleep in the morning, showers then head to the parents' of the couple for more partying, and this goes on the next day, too.
Funerals and wakes can last a week. I grew up in Australia (in the Irish diaspora) and funerals went for at least 3 days there; weddings were dependent on location. If a wedding or wake took place in the outback which involved travelling long distances, then all gatherins were at least a week long.
Been to Ireland many times...and a wedding there, beautiful country and people
You drink between each verse and the longer you make it the more you drink! That's how we do it! (Born and bred in Ireland) American bluegrass was born out of irish music after the Irish emigration to the USA. Thats why there are similarities ❤
If you love Irish folk music try reacting to The Dubliners or The Pogues.
Or the Chieftains.
I’m southern English, in the mid nineties I started living with an Irish woman, no one knows folk music until you have been around the Irish, or the pogues
Davey Arthur and the Fureys Irish folk band are excellent too my Grandad was Irish
@@suekey8072 So was my grandad. 😃
@@lornaclayton2697 I was an O’Brien from Limerick
Hi Steve just came across your channel. What lovely comments you had. There’s definitely one thing the Irish can do so well and that’s have a great night out, if it’s just a weekend wedding or our country playing sports and going to the pub/bar we definitely know how to have a great night and get everyone involved into all hours of the morning. I don’t know this song myself but it looks like there unwinding I guarantee at about 2/3 am they where up dancing singing arms around each other having an amazing time but it gets to the point where people obviously start getting tired going to bed the ones that can hang in there longer will tend to sit around just like themselves and sing songs or tell stories and unwind. That’s beautiful to hear you want to know more about your ancestors and be proud of that, being a Dubliner lived in the states for 10 years I have to say coming home just missed and loved how friendly and welcoming the Irish are compared to other countries no disrespect. Very proud to be Irish, again so nice to see you embrace your ancestors how far back are we talking?if ya don’t mind me asking…
Best wedding I ever went to was a friend's aunt, in Donegal. I was treated like family. The whole event evolved over a long weekend, and the actual day culminated in the Priest joining us for a pub crawl and sing along after the main reception. Many drinks, songs, and pubs later my friend and I staggered back to the family's house at dawn 👍😂🍻🍷🍾🎉😎
My sisters wedding 20 years ago went on until 5am. These days it is becoming more normal to have a two day wedding.
This video just blew my mind but not because of the singing, which I am well used to at family events but I only realized at the end that this was in a wedding venue i worked in for 5 years in Co. Tipperary. Was not expecting to see it here
As an english man i feel no shame in saying it's hard to beat a welsh or irish female singing voice.
Agree, but then...Sandy Denny.
So bloody true.
Us irish know these songs from childhood. Typical irish wedding or funeral. Great fun, it's what we do. Glad you loved it.
That's the bride in white sitting on the groom's lap and her sister is doing the singing.
The 'stayers' are still up and partying at 8am when others are coming down for their breakfast. The 'legends' are still up and partying on the Monday morning at 8am when the hotel is considering calling outside assistance to get rid of them...
Irish weddings are usually 'alright' or f**king legendary!!!
I read somewhere that it’s not a drinking GAME. it’s more of a sobriety kinda test. If you can sing this then you’re fit to drive 😊
Flee on on the feather, feather on the wing, wing on the chick, chick in the egg, egg in the nest, nest on the leaf, leaf on the twig, twig on the stick, stick on the branch, branch on the tree, tree in the hole, hole in the bog, bog down in the valley O. Many versions, I learnt this one in the Scouts!
Same!!! We would always make up as many extra as we could through 😂
Some of my fondest memories of when i was young was going to see my Uncle play in an popular irish fok band in Southern Ireland at the time called The Wexford Emeralds, two acoustic guitars and a singer
loved the energy of the jigs the atmosphire was electric and the ballads, the singer (John Aspal's) voice was so amazing it stired emotions in me even though i was only 12 or 13 and born in England, i knew little of Irish history other then what my Mother told me and didn't really comprehend or truely understand the passion in the song or catch the connection to Mother' side of the family untill i was trying research to my mothers branch of the family tree, on the web early 2000 'early into the linternet age but found very little and only one clip of my Uncle playing in the Band on TV when looking to record some of the songs my Uncle sung which was frusttrating because i know they released several Albums and recorded for TV a lot more then once they were good enough to be invited to and play in The Royal Albert Hall in london
I told my Mother (God rest her soul) i was trying find Uncle Paddiy's Band, The Wexford Emerld online but no luck, she said to me "no it maybe because they are Irish rebel songs writtern fron the time of William of Orange invasion of Ireland when the Dutchman was given the crown of England and became Edward the 1st including the irish uprising of 1916 and the two world war and would have been baned in England" and then calmly added " Your Grandad was considered as "Persona non grata" in England meaning unwelcome person i wont go into the details now this comment is long enough already, its for another time, its a long story, if you would like to know more about this i'll be happy tell you, just let me know if you do
So my Uncle may have been cosidered the same because of subject of the songs he sang being mainly anti English Establishment. but are still beautiful emotive songs, sung with passion and pride. i remember the words to most of the song they sang, as i grew older i learnt more of the poignancy and meaning behind the lyriics,
I've allways loved irish folk music but since ny Mother passed away at the end of 2021 i find it hard to listen to a folk song in an Irish accent without my emotions overwelmimg me, even writing this has been an emotiohnal rollacoster, i have lernt more irish history in folk music then i ever learnt in school
i went to a Romen Catholic School in England, 99% of the pupils were either Irish or Italian and pupils born in England but had irish or Italian parents, even four of our teachers were Irish Nuns but they only taught Dogma and refused to discuss anything that wasn't ordained in thier holy orders to God and would fly in to a rage if we asked question about Evolution, Aliens, Dinosaurs, the age of our planet, Pagan festivals and Traditions usurped into christianity ect , ect, ect basicly anything that conflicts with Doctrine,
so no hope of learning any reality there then, you are more likly able to access a lot more imformation from the Irish prospective living in the US then i ever have living in England
If they are still drinking at 5am congrats on remembering the whole sequence of the song! 😂
I have never been to bed before 6am on an Irish wedding and I have been to loads
I will say one thing and I will keep it to one thing that I want to say the woman and the group singing at that wedding were the best how they made the choreography of the music singing through the melody of however they were doing it is amazing this is by far one of the greatest traditional Irish songs backdated history and they will never ever ever ever ever be anybody that does it better than this Irish wedding and that's that
So glad you landed on this 😂😂xx happy Irish you got to love us Irish ❤😂
It's our morgerity of our south Ireland wedding and my sons christian we sing this
Us Irish happen to get married at a party. My wedding, DJ got drunk, that's fine was a friend of ours. My husbands uncle in law took over "Djaying". To this day people talk of the best wedding they were at (23 years later and a divorce). The girl singing is the sister of the bride, in white to her left as you look at the screen. Sweet moment when the singers new brother in law picked up her drink for her to take a sip during the chorus.
Loved that video. My Irish great-gran used to say the best Irish weddings always had a fight somewhere during the celebrations but all were best friends forever at the end of it.
That is definitely not true
Irish weddings are the best craic.Come to one of Ireland 32 counties and experience in a bar this. One night close to the British border in Ireland there was a bar. I was serving myself drinks in the bar, and then Garda and psni came in and started drinking with us too until 6/7am. Love bandit country
You should check out the blokes singing 'The Whole of the Moon' in their local pub. It's a vibe.
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Irish weddings last up to 3 days now definitely two , & yes 5/6/7am is normal for an Irish ☘️ wedding,, and ceremony usually starts between 12/1pm ..
5am is pretty standard stuff. We've probably been drinking since 11 am or so. Then, everyone with the wedding heads into the residents' bar in the hotel
In my old pub in England a few years back, was an old Irish fella not just any old Irish fart, no legs type Irish man , I had this on my phone he liked it so much I nearly had him dancing x
That text made no sense...are you drunk... haha.
My brothers wedding in Scotland in a extreamly well known hotel was so much fun. It was the first time a rock band played in the hotel. When we were doing the scottish dancing there were so many taking part it ran into the hall , we were screaming (as you do) and throwing each other about. There were loads off foreners who loved the Bag Pipes and Address to the Haggis and the open bar (unusual at a Brittish wedding). They were supprised at how wild it was and how long it went on. Thanks Stu for the Full Scottish bfast the next morning, etc. Although i didn't go for Champagne that morning.
Not sure what you mean by open bar,but at my brothers wedding 20 years ago in ireland ,because he lived in england aand was marrying an english girl they had a free,but it didn't translate and it quickly returned to an ordinary bar.Free bars are rare at weddings in ireland i mean its enough to pay for the dinners nevermind the drink aswell for 200 or so guests which would be about average at an irish wedding.
my son was also married in a well known hotel on loch lomend, i was concerned i wouldn't survive danceing the Ceilidh but as luck would have it, by then i was to drunk to stand, problem solved, good result in my books 👍😃
@@raymoorey8296 iv stayed at the hotel your talking about it had a huge fire a few years back, lovely place. My brothers do had eagles?! My uncle is a farmer and had bought a sheep that had 2 nights in the car park.
@@gallowglass2630 open bar is a free bar thank god 2 drinks cost me £16 this is 18 years ago. The night before was in a difrent place food fantastic and open bar, we are Scottish the bride is Irish Scottish.
I wouldn't be a heavy drinker myself - but I can honestly say I've never been told to leave an Irish pub because it's closing time - they would just have a "Lock in".....!
One time many years ago I left a bar and I was drunk - the local police sergeant met me at the door and asked where my car was - i pointed in the general direction - he took me to my car put me in the passenger seat and drove me home - with another officer following in the patrol car to collect him - only in Ireland...!
Wow! That was a real treat, thanks for the video 😊
I love being Irish😂😂 I’m 15 and can just about sing the whole song perfectly, I sing the rula bula version 😂
a lot of hotels have residents bars so you absolutely can get served if you are staying there
Yep irish weddings are parties. An endurance test for other nationalities. Watch jarleth regans video of drinking at irish weddings
Sounds like a sobriety song. Lol she is awesome.
You'd love 'Seven Drunken Nights' by The Dubliners!
And yes; for Rattlin' Bog, when you mess up a line, you drink.
Exactly, I'd say she kept repeating the 'tree in the hole' line each time to get another drink!!!
Loved that she has a fab voice
The craic at a wedding starts about 3am, when the Mammies and Daddies go to their rooms.
I'm from England & loved that. 😍 Beautiful voice & very catching tune 👍👏👏👏
It's a drinking song because you need to remember the lyrics as you get drunk xD
Yes absolutely! At least 5am if not dawn and then it starts again the next day when the pubs open! Residents Bar is the Hotels at weddings stay open til about 6am. The second day is often better because the pressure is off the bride. Second day starts at 11am with usually a band in the pub, trad band, drinking games, then DJ later and again the Hotel Residents bar!
I usually go to bed around 10pm, latest... I was born, bred and breathe Ireland...I was convinced on my wedding night I'd be in bed for 2am (weird for someone in Ireland on their wedding day)...it was 5am...and my extended family started arriving at my house 5 hours later, which ended up being 60 people drinking by 2pm...I was holding my larynx trying to talk. Great craic, sign me up again 🎉
The great thing about being Irish, we know all our folk songs, no matter your age. Everyone can sing along.
We sang this song in assembly at my Yorkshire primary school in the 80s
We welsh have a very similar song. Different tune and rhythm but a very similar song about a nest on a branch on a tree etc “Y Pren ar y Bryn” 😊
Same in Denmark 🇩🇰 The woods, the tree, the branch, the twig, the nest, the bird, the feather...
On my wedding night we went to bed at 7am and had the call at 9.30am for breakfast. We were checked out at 12.30pm...day two started then 🍻🍻🍻
I learnt this song from Scocha a Scottish folk song. Love this song 😊
In America, we Irish Americans love a good party! Rattlin Bog is a rounder... a great way to remember...😊
We've got a wrattlin' bog, specially when you pull the chain.
I saw this video years ago and I love it! Will revisit it occasionally.
Drinks drinks and more drinks the Irish are amazing , my nephew married an Irish lass and I told the father of the bride I love guiness and every time I looked there was another drink in front of me. I’m an American whose livespd in England since 1975. The celts , the Welsh Irish and Scottish are the best 😊
Steve, no drinking Game. Believe me. We just love singing and dancing in Ireland. The drinking just carries on alongside every one of these occasions.
The Wedding itself if very formal, but after the speeches
And the meal etc. the craic really begins.
These things usually last two days. When my brother got
Married 30 years ago, my late uncle lost his job for not
Getting back to work for 5 days😂😂God help us!
I LOVE this!! 😂😂😂
Rattlin' Bog
Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Real Bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Well in the bog there was a hole,
A rare hole and a rattlin' hole,
And the hole in the bog,
And the bog down in the valley-o.
Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Real Bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Well in that hole there was a tree,
A rare tree and a rattlin' tree,
And the tree in the hole,
And the hole in the bog,
And the bog down in the valley-o.
Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Real Bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
on that tree there was a branch,
A rare branch and a rattlin' branch,
And the branch on the tree,
And the tree in the hole,
And the hole in the bog,
And the bog down in the valley-o.
Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
on that branch there was a limb,
A rare limb and a rattlin' limb,
And the limb on the branch,
And the branch on the tree,
And the tree in the hole,
And the hole in the bog,
And the bog down in the valley-o.
Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Real bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Well on that limb there was a nest,
A rare nest and a rattlin' nest,
And the nest on the limb,
And the limb on the branch,
And the branch on the tree,
And the tree in the hole,
And the hole in the bog,
And the bog down in the valley-o.
Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Real bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Now in that nest there was a bird,
A rare bird and a rattlin' bird,
And the bird in the nest,
And the nest on the limb,
And the limb on the branch,
And the branch on the tree,
And the tree in the hole,
And the hole in the bog,
down in the valley-o.
Ho, ho, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Real bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
In that bird there was an egg,
A rare egg and a rattlin' egg,
And the egg on the bird,
And the bird in the nest,
And the nest on the limb,
And the limb on the branch,
And the branch on the tree,
And the tree in the bog,
And the hole in the bog,
And the bog down in the valley-o.
Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Real bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
In that egg there was a bird,
A rare bird and a rattlin' bird,
And the bird on the egg,
And the egg on the bird,
And the bird in the nest,
And the nest on the limb,
And the limb on the branch,
And the branch on the tree,
And the tree in the bog,
And the hole in the bog,
And the bog down in the valley-o.
Ho, ro, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Real bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
...
...
Real bog, the rattlin' bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Well done buddy
My two daughters' weddings lasted all night in the hotel.....followed by another party in a marquee in our garden the following day with music song dancing of course plenty of drinks including kegs of Guinness 😂😂😂
It's not a drinking game. Its tend to be sung late at night. Love how your enjoying our music. Come to Ireland soon & let us know. Sure, there'll be a wedding on somewhere 🇮🇪🤣🇮🇪
Totally agree about weddings "having to be perfect". I was best man on one occasion and during the actual ceremony I discovered I'd lost the bride's ring.
My parents wedding 60 odd years ago went on for 3 days in my grandparents farmhouse.
according to Wiki the word rattlin means splendid, it’s suggested the song dates back to the 1700’s or earlier
I allways thought it was the name of the bog because rathlin is a common placename ,but hearing the song again that makes more sense.
I don't know if anyone else can confirm this, when I first saw this video a few years ago I am sure someone said the girl singing is the brides sister, the bride is the girl in white sat on the guys lap, I think someone else said the guy she was sat on was their brother, anyone know is this is correct. I loved the song and she has an amazing voice
Indeed. The singer is Clodagh, the bride in white is sister Patrice, and Patrice is seated on their brother Ronan's lap. They've been singing this together since they were little.
Irish weddings are the best party time could last for days but we have great time 😂
Just wonderful.
Well my daughters went on till 7 am so yes it is true they can go on for days trust me I’ve been to a few
The Wedding goes on till about 2 am but the Resident bar in the Hotel for people staying there stays open until all hours. Even when you aren't at a wedding the Resident bar is open late. I stayed in Killarney once and we were in the resident bar until nearly 5 am drinking
Irish weddings are awesome. As are the funerals!
Wakes used to great craic as well but stop it a few years back as it was going overboard, still give the deceased person a good send off though after the funeral.
In fairness, I'd say this is maybe 03:00am. Bars in hotels, (where weddings are hosted) close around this time. Some hotels will continue serving staying guests. Rural weddings get away with murder with residents bars though.
That's an Irish wedding for ya , the Irish know how to party 🎉 they play hard & work hard ,music & fun aka ceol Agus craic is a huge part of Irish life .
Years ago a friend of mine from Belfast told me how he spent a few days out in Arran island in the West of Ireland. He said he went to the bar at around 1am for another drink and asked the bar man when the pub shut. After thinking for a minute he replied "I think it shuts in September for a couple of days". 😅
Rattlin Bog is one of quite a few songs that 'build' with each verse, in Irish/British folklore, the best known possibly being the children's rhyme, "One man went to mow." In country districts there are often local versions too - and sometimes the songs have accompanying dances, either for children or more generally. Back in my Sunday School days for example (50+ years ago), we had a party song/game, "The farmer's in his den..." In the second verse, it was "The famer wants a wife.."; the third was, "The wife wants a child...", then "The child wants a dog..." followed by "The dog wants a bone - in each case, someone in the room being chosen to represent the latest 'want'. In the last verse however, it's "The bone won't break.." with everyone surrounding the poor 'bone' and hammering it from all directions! A further song might be the Old woman who swallowed a fly, then a spider, then a bird, then a cat, then a dog, then a cow, and finally a horse, rhyming with, "But now she's dead - of course." Others are distinctly more adult in their content, such as "The Ball of Kirriemuir," which is said to have been an actual event that took place in that Scottish town, in the 1880s. Here are a couple of the cleaner versions: ruclips.net/video/RAC9aeEM-nU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/qSc1xfkdSYQ/видео.html
I'm not sure that any drinking game has any particularly 'set' rules as, if they've been sat up drinking all night, most of them will be too drunk to stick to them anyway - but again, there may be local versions!
weddings in Ireland are a Major piss-up( party) but they are dressy events usually because they are held in Fancy Hotels AND Irish people love to go out socially and rock great looks all the time (so weddings are where you step it up ) but it's def not stuffy it's the Reverse!
I danced till 6am at a wedding in Ireland in a county called Kildare, couldn't walk and then they announced crisps sandwiches and we ran to get them
Can’t beat a good crisp sandwich 😂
5 am is an early night to us
Weddings are now turning into 2 days sessions straight through some go to bed maybe 5 or 6am and back on it by 11am for the day and night . Some just do the 48hrs straight through..😂😂😂 so the game is to drink after the singer ads the new part to each verse so ( and on the branch there was a twig a rare twig a rattling twig) as she then starts to work her way back through the list everyone is suppose to chug or the smart ones just slowly continously sipping their beer and then everyone joins in for the chorus..
What a memory and she didn't stumble 😊
Awh that woman's a lovely singer, I'm sure she could sing anything but to make The Rattlin Bog sound good and flow like that is a great achievement; let alone remember all the words! 😂 I think l heard one of the party say Go Hiontach at the end of it all which is a show of admiration for her, like Bravo or Well done! I would say this is her party piece and that is not the first time she sang it as l find it very hard to remember anything after the chick and that's sober, l wouldn't have a hope of remembering the order if l had been drinking for most of the day 🤣 Irish Weddings can be a 48hr event with possibly a cat nap from 6am to 8am depending on what time the hotel is serving breakfast at!
I'm from England but my uncle was Irish and my Surname is Irish as is o,dwyer which my uncles last name was. He was a great craic as the Irish say 😂 but that was amazing,loved it ❤
Same here, I am also from England, Liverpool But my Maternal grandmother was born in Ireland, her maiden name was O`Brien . The Irish certainly know how to enjoy themselves 👍👍
It's a fun "memory" song.
The story gets longer and longer between choruses.
The drunker you are the fewer of the words you can remember.
She has a Tipperary accent......"It's a long way to Tipperary."
5am is early for an Irish wedding, the formal part of it ends after the ceremony, we just celebrate after that, best days out, as are funerals if the person has had a good long life.
Next day is for the hair of the dog. But since it's a wedding it'll the whole coat.
O yeah we play blue grass here and alot more stuff you can't mention🎉
Irish weddings go for 2 days now 😂
Loved this phenomenal.
Haha Irish wedding just getting started at 5am. Usually starts on Saturday and you get home at some stage on monday
They’re just getting ready for the after party .. and then day 2!
My mums best friends ( a couple from Ireland ) would invite her round for dinner a a few drinks never was a few lol they were the loveliest people unfortunately they've both passed on atnd mum too but I like to think of them all up there having a good chat and laugh . 😊
We all want to hear you sing the song Steve.
LOL I think people might regret hearing my version. :)
@@reactingtomyroots Aparrently you have to keep adding words every time the verse is repeated.It starts with a bird then there is the flea on the bird and then amoeba on the flea and then bacteria and probably it finnishes with virus.
0:58 "that's insane" is pretty much Irish culture
I grew up in Ulster and we sang this song at Scout camps in the 1980s. When I was at University in Leicester, England, I tried to teach the song to a local Scout group and their parents at a Halloween bonfire.
One smartarse shouted out, "Speak English. We can't understand you!"
I replied to him with a joke;
'Why were the Irish born stupid?'
"Why?" He says.
'So the English can understand us.'
That shut him up.
Private functions can go on and on
...just so you know you have to be able to recite this flawlessly after 12 pints of Guinness....for citizenship entry.
I bet you were doing the riverdance from the waist down lol
LOL yes I was. :)
Ella Roberts take my hand pure Irish Voice
Great video man! If you want to hear some more modern Irish music, there's a rap group called "Kneecap", who are based in Belfast, and they rap in the Irish language (Gaeilge) as well as in english, most of their songs have an interesting 50/50 mix of the english and Irish language, absolutely recommend! They have a song called "HOOD" that would be good to start with
It's a drinking game because we drink while singing it 🤣
I have yet to go to an Irish wedding of a close friend or family member that didn’t carry on till breakfast if you wanted to. You might go home at 2-3 for a less important wedding. The singing starts after midnight.😂and everyone is expected to sing talented or not.