I am as British as they come but I think this is a tribute to a great Irish girl and her singing, not a platform for all this crap. R.I.P. Kirsty Mc Coll you are sadly missed.
Birth name Kirsty Anna MacColl Born 10 October 1959 Croydon, England, United Kingdom Died 18 December 2000 (aged 41) Cozumel, Mexico What ever you think Kirsty was Kirsty She was fantastic with great music and singing forever missed... RIP Kirsty
i saw kirstie perform just a few months before she died. it was at an irish festival at finsbury park. she seemed quite happy, and was doing a lot of latin/South American inspired stuff, as she had recently been out that way for a bit.
OK, OK, Break it up, weve all had a drink. I adore this song and Kirsty MacColl I am English and my much loved Grandmother is Irish. To those of you who know anything about ships, the Titanic was built by Harland and Wolf. She was handsome she was pretty SHE was the belle of Belfast city!.
im irish on both sides it dosnt matter if you can sind an irish song and make someone dance and sing along at home our in the pub ive seen my relatives play the spoons to this so anymore irish and it will be there anthem xx
"Excellent" is not a good enough word for this song or Kirsty MacColl's performance. It's Magnificent. What music is all about. Or should be. I give everyone a chance -- but you couldn't possibly convince me that an R&B song by some diva or a rap song can make you jump out of your skin and dance around in your bones like this.
As a Scot I'm proud. And proud of the Welsh, the Irish and the English. Put us together and we can stand up to anyone on earth. United we are strong. Brit rule. Peace to you alll.
@star13uk Thank you. That's the most sensible comment I've heard in many a year, and so right too. We in these small islands have influenced and achieved great things across the World throughout history. Long may you live in well-being, good health and enjoyment.
i'm welsh and i think all of the irish songs are amazing! this, galway girl and fairytale of new york are amazing!! and i dont think of myself as 'english' or 'british' i am welsh, and im proud just like every Irish person and every Scottish person. I personally think English accents are either posh or chav! Irish and Scottish accents are sexy! We Welsh sound a bit thick mun!
@speedtwin007 Shet is singing an Irish song here but Kirsty was English. Her father was Ewan MacColl the folk singer. That is the writer of Dirty Old Town and Shoals Of Herring. He was born and brought up in Salford though his parents were Scottish.
@MyHellboy90 Politics aside i love belfast and very Good Mates on BOTH Sides and love them all and get up for good pints of harp as often as i can as you say Hands of FRIENDSHIP out to all and Let us ALL get back on our feet and make Friends and a FEW quid as well !!!!
Id love to have this tune with out the singing as i want to see if i can use it for a barn dance i have just wrote, does anyone know where i could get rid of the singing off this?
dawncruttenden well said. northern irish people are great , we have are own identity why can people not just get over all this shit , i mean c'mon its 2011 already
@joker9163 I think the problem is British as a word means various things. Geogrpahically it obviously means people from the island of Great Britain. It then also means people from that island in a political sense. And lastly it can mean people from the UK as a whole as there is no alternative name - for example we don't say United Kingdomers. In the end though despite what people's passports say they will self identify themselves. Setting aside the situation in Ireland there are plenty of Scots
@ianh13uk Perhaps if you were to refer to a map that was produced in this century you'd know that the Republic of Ireland stands apart from the British Isles. The closest thing to the collective noun that you're looking for is 'European'.
@dmarshall37 Actually most IRA groups are now involved in more covert political endeavours. It's only the dissident cell groups and aggravated civilians that are continuing the violence in the North. The recent activities of the IRA were focused around the Lisbon treaty and U.S. military aircrafts in Ireland. Regardless, there's still an abundance of people in Northern Ireland and Scotland that want independence, and people from the Republic that think England still owes Ireland compensation.
@missjamie135 What's worse is that his initial comment was all about how much he loves the Irish. He's clearly never been to a pub in the republic or he wouldn't have been alive to say what he did. And actually the Northern Irish aren't part of Great Britan, only the United Kingdom; so they aren't actually British either. But some of them don't even know that so- :-P :-D
TOTALLY CORRECT . THIS AIN'T A BAD SONG BUT ITS NOT,NOT,NOT,NOT OUR KIRSTY!!!! JAN SMITS VERSION IS THE BEST . A DUTCH BAND DOING A JIG . FUNNY AS F**K
What's shocking is that the Queen has only recently apologised for the English famine in Ireland (several years and thousands of pounds lighter of course), and still it's taught in English schools and even several Irish ones that the famine was caused by a potato blight. As if the Irish were dependent on a single non-native plant for survival in a country whose chief exports are dairy products and pork. It's just the hight of disrespect, and they don't even realise it because of their education.
@jamesseanwilliam Was Irish history actually brought into English schools? Last I heard it was still being called the potato famine over there and not the English famine.
@star13uk and @Perfectpastries: And as a proud Irishman I have to say that I find your comment quite offensive. The last time Ireland was "united" with the British all the food was stolen and the polititians and civilians were killed. The original IRA wasn't established just for the craic like! How about England, Wales and Scotland all unite under Irish rule instead for a change?
@Insomniac618 lol! noo way?!? Irish arn't british! lol!! I think Some parts of Ireland are classed as british cause they still part of it, but nah! lol!
This is a playground song about all the good people who live in the greatest city in the world and it has to be hijacked by bigots. Shame on you, shame.
english tit talkin here, 1st irish = epic, 2nd scots =awesomeness 3rd what the heck, the english may have come from germany and scandieland, been c**ts and taken over britain, but as far as i'm concerned this land belongs to the welsh. silence you all and enjoy the greatness that was betswoed upon us all with the geratness of irish music, cas its the only thing that gets us english through on a drunken night :p peace to all brits ( exept the english, we ait brits at all lol)
and even a fair (if less than Scotland) percentage of English who don't identify themselves as British - no matter what their passport says or other people say :-)
THIS IS NOT KIRSTY MAcCOLL!!! THIS IS TERRIBLE! IT WAS SOME AWFUL 1980'S BAND GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT KIRSTY WAS A BRILLIANT MUSICIAN, SINGER AND SONGWRITER DO NOT ATTRIBUTE THIS WORK TO HERS!!! SACRILAGE.....TAKE IT OFF NOW WHERE IS SHANE MACGOWAN WHEN YOU NEED HIM?????? HE WOULD TELL YOU IN HIS VERY OWN WORDS....AND IT WOULD NOT BE POLITE.
@Insomniac618 This is 100% true. There are many protestant supporters of Irish Nationalism. I know a handful of people personally, who support A 32 county Ireland and who have the sense to understand that the British attempted a genoside. The IRB attacks were purely retaliation, or moreso defense. Surely it would have been foolish to watch a home country being ripped apart. This issue is still distinct in Northern ireland, particularly places, like Derry City that is negligently affected...
@babywoo1973 The song's not an issue. I was just arguing that the comment that got 35 thumbs up would be considered offensive to most Irish people. To varying degrees, but still offensive. The Queen only apologised for the famine a short while ago, which was the only response to a demand for compensation from the Irish government a few decades ago. The English government has never shown any respect towards the Irish. We don't like it.
@ianh13uk "Brits" is not a collective noun for the people of these islands, because the Irish of the Republic are not British. In your nicer future perhaps you could see clear to affording the Republican Irish that you claim to love so much at least a bit of respect.
@ianh13uk You realise that the "Brit rule" thing at the end made it sound like you support British rule over all of the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland. It's a subject that can still evoke very strong emotions for a lot of Irish; and therefore not something that you should take so light-heartedly. A friend of my grandmother lost her house and only child because the English dropped a bomb on them. Things like that aren't exactly easily forgotten.
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I am as British as they come but I think this is a tribute to a great Irish girl and her singing, not a platform for all this crap. R.I.P. Kirsty Mc Coll you are sadly missed.
It's a shame about the bigoted comments - it's an amazing song and shouldn't be a reason for people to make racist remarks.
A brilliant song!!
neither did I -wow!
This song gets in my head, and makes me want to dance :D
Birth name Kirsty Anna MacColl
Born 10 October 1959
Croydon, England, United Kingdom
Died 18 December 2000 (aged 41)
Cozumel, Mexico
What ever you think Kirsty was Kirsty She was fantastic with great music and singing forever missed... RIP Kirsty
i saw kirstie perform just a few months before she died. it was at an irish festival at finsbury park. she seemed quite happy, and was doing a lot of latin/South American inspired stuff, as she had recently been out that way for a bit.
i am born and raised in TEXAS and love this song and Kristy McColl
this was on at my friends party on Saturday and everyone was up Irish dancing :)
OK, OK, Break it up, weve all had a drink. I adore this song and Kirsty MacColl I am English and my much loved Grandmother is Irish. To those of you who know anything about ships, the Titanic was built by Harland and Wolf. She was handsome she was pretty SHE was the belle of Belfast city!.
im irish on both sides it dosnt matter if you can sind an irish song and make someone dance and sing along at home our in the pub ive seen my relatives play the spoons to this so anymore irish and it will be there anthem xx
"Excellent" is not a good enough word for this song or Kirsty MacColl's performance. It's Magnificent. What music is all about. Or should be. I give everyone a chance -- but you couldn't possibly convince me that an R&B song by some diva or a rap song can make you jump out of your skin and dance around in your bones like this.
i never knew Kirsty sang this song
R.I.P Kirsty McColl :-( x
As a Scot I'm proud. And proud of the Welsh, the Irish and the English. Put us together and we can stand up to anyone on earth. United we are strong. Brit rule. Peace to you alll.
@star13uk Thank you. That's the most sensible comment I've heard in many a year, and so right too. We in these small islands have influenced and achieved great things across the World throughout history. Long may you live in well-being, good health and enjoyment.
Just enjoy the music forget the other crap.
i'm welsh and i think all of the irish songs are amazing! this, galway girl and fairytale of new york are amazing!! and i dont think of myself as 'english' or 'british' i am welsh, and im proud just like every Irish person and every Scottish person. I personally think English accents are either posh or chav! Irish and Scottish accents are sexy! We Welsh sound a bit thick mun!
@speedtwin007 Shet is singing an Irish song here but Kirsty was English. Her father was Ewan MacColl the folk singer. That is the writer of Dirty Old Town and Shoals Of Herring. He was born and brought up in Salford though his parents were Scottish.
her voice
Well thanks for putting a beat mix into that traditonal song, that you thought needed energy to make it into club in Dublin
@MyHellboy90 Politics aside i love belfast and very Good Mates on BOTH Sides and love them all and get up for good pints of harp as often as i can as you say Hands of FRIENDSHIP out to all and Let us ALL get back on our feet and make Friends and a FEW quid as well !!!!
R.I.P
tell me ma, when i go home. brill song as i'm from belfast. yo. true song. go on belfast gaints as they play this song when they score a goal.
@speedtwin007 Hear, hear! Although she wasn't actually Irish chief
Id love to have this tune with out the singing as i want to see if i can use it for a barn dance i have just wrote, does anyone know where i could get rid of the singing off this?
I have an Irish Passport. I am from Northern Ireland. I am Irish. I live in Ireland? You have issues??
dawncruttenden well said. northern irish people are great , we have are own identity why can people not just get over all this shit , i mean c'mon its 2011 already
born in ireland lived in ireland we are ireland :)
where can i get this for my ipod
@joker9163 I think the problem is British as a word means various things. Geogrpahically it obviously means people from the island of Great Britain. It then also means people from that island in a political sense. And lastly it can mean people from the UK as a whole as there is no alternative name - for example we don't say United Kingdomers. In the end though despite what people's passports say they will self identify themselves. Setting aside the situation in Ireland there are plenty of Scots
@star13uk but us welsh culturally ignored for hundreds of years....why on ppl in Britain? ppl around the world can be just as good?
@ianh13uk Perhaps if you were to refer to a map that was produced in this century you'd know that the Republic of Ireland stands apart from the British Isles. The closest thing to the collective noun that you're looking for is 'European'.
@steamgeezer. AMEN to that, love.
@ewingwallace It is. It must be the wrong audio, thinking of the title of this video.
@dduuddllee Dont ya mean up de oirish?
@ytilibaliavification "where can i get this for my ipod"
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@pinkiepie24 THANK YOU!
@worldgonegaga
No You're a Scot. Do you live in Scotland?
@dmarshall37 Actually most IRA groups are now involved in more covert political endeavours. It's only the dissident cell groups and aggravated civilians that are continuing the violence in the North. The recent activities of the IRA were focused around the Lisbon treaty and U.S. military aircrafts in Ireland. Regardless, there's still an abundance of people in Northern Ireland and Scotland that want independence, and people from the Republic that think England still owes Ireland compensation.
haha classic !
I didn't know she song that
@star13uk top man
@joker9163 Thanks for proving my last point anyway. Happy Paddy's Day! :D
yeoooo paddys day soon can'y wait.:)
@TabbitMaster No; a guy earlier claimed that the Irish were British.
omg im in shock did'nt know she was dead.
@missjamie135 What's worse is that his initial comment was all about how much he loves the Irish. He's clearly never been to a pub in the republic or he wouldn't have been alive to say what he did. And actually the Northern Irish aren't part of Great Britan, only the United Kingdom; so they aren't actually British either. But some of them don't even know that so- :-P :-D
TOTALLY CORRECT .
THIS AIN'T A BAD SONG BUT ITS NOT,NOT,NOT,NOT OUR KIRSTY!!!!
JAN SMITS VERSION IS THE BEST . A DUTCH BAND DOING A JIG . FUNNY AS F**K
Irish and proud. jfs :L
oh to be irish so i can do the proper dance :D
What's shocking is that the Queen has only recently apologised for the English famine in Ireland (several years and thousands of pounds lighter of course), and still it's taught in English schools and even several Irish ones that the famine was caused by a potato blight. As if the Irish were dependent on a single non-native plant for survival in a country whose chief exports are dairy products and pork. It's just the hight of disrespect, and they don't even realise it because of their education.
it says my mates grannys name in dis lol
@jamesseanwilliam Was Irish history actually brought into English schools? Last I heard it was still being called the potato famine over there and not the English famine.
im a girl of belfast city!!!!
@TheHopwell spa
@blackoutrus Did the Black n Tans tell everyone that that's why they were killing civilians?
@star13uk and @Perfectpastries: And as a proud Irishman I have to say that I find your comment quite offensive. The last time Ireland was "united" with the British all the food was stolen and the polititians and civilians were killed. The original IRA wasn't established just for the craic like! How about England, Wales and Scotland all unite under Irish rule instead for a change?
@Insomniac618 lol! noo way?!? Irish arn't british! lol!! I think Some parts of Ireland are classed as british cause they still part of it, but nah! lol!
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This is a playground song about all the good people who live in the greatest city in the world and it has to be hijacked by bigots. Shame on you, shame.
english tit talkin here, 1st irish = epic, 2nd scots =awesomeness 3rd what the heck, the english may have come from germany and scandieland, been c**ts and taken over britain, but as far as i'm concerned this land belongs to the welsh. silence you all and enjoy the greatness that was betswoed upon us all with the geratness of irish music, cas its the only thing that gets us english through on a drunken night :p peace to all brits ( exept the english, we ait brits at all lol)
and even a fair (if less than Scotland) percentage of English who don't identify themselves as British - no matter what their passport says or other people say :-)
@star13uk yes we are the fuking best english and proud,but without everybody else irish,scots welsh were fuck all thanks matey.
@dell1158 I want a dream like that!
THIS IS NOT KIRSTY MAcCOLL!!! THIS IS TERRIBLE!
IT WAS SOME AWFUL 1980'S BAND
GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT
KIRSTY WAS A BRILLIANT MUSICIAN, SINGER AND SONGWRITER
DO NOT ATTRIBUTE THIS WORK TO HERS!!!
SACRILAGE.....TAKE IT OFF NOW
WHERE IS SHANE MACGOWAN WHEN YOU NEED HIM?????? HE WOULD TELL YOU IN HIS VERY OWN WORDS....AND IT WOULD NOT BE POLITE.
@Insomniac618 This is 100% true. There are many protestant supporters of Irish Nationalism. I know a handful of people personally, who support A 32 county Ireland and who have the sense to understand that the British attempted a genoside. The IRB attacks were purely retaliation, or moreso defense. Surely it would have been foolish to watch a home country being ripped apart. This issue is still distinct in Northern ireland, particularly places, like Derry City that is negligently affected...
@babywoo1973 The song's not an issue. I was just arguing that the comment that got 35 thumbs up would be considered offensive to most Irish people. To varying degrees, but still offensive. The Queen only apologised for the famine a short while ago, which was the only response to a demand for compensation from the Irish government a few decades ago. The English government has never shown any respect towards the Irish. We don't like it.
@hawickman I have lived in England, Sotland and Ireland. Im Scottish by birth.
By far and away England has a higher % of wankers.
@ianh13uk "Brits" is not a collective noun for the people of these islands, because the Irish of the Republic are not British. In your nicer future perhaps you could see clear to affording the Republican Irish that you claim to love so much at least a bit of respect.
@ianh13uk You realise that the "Brit rule" thing at the end made it sound like you support British rule over all of the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland. It's a subject that can still evoke very strong emotions for a lot of Irish; and therefore not something that you should take so light-heartedly. A friend of my grandmother lost her house and only child because the English dropped a bomb on them. Things like that aren't exactly easily forgotten.
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