Description
Bringing together the finest songs and ballads in the Irish tradition, this unique treasury also explores their origins and inspiration. Including tales of the Famine, emigration and the Irish in America, street ballads and ancient airs, patriotic and love songs, it will enrich your understanding of the Irish and their songs and provide years of enjoyment!
Here we are, over fifty Irish songs and ballads, including the stories and legends behind them plus, lavishly illustrated period photographs from every county in Ireland!
Contents:
- Bantry Bay
- The Bard of Armagh
- The Black Velvet Band
- Boolavogue
- Bould Thady Quill
- Carrickfergus
- The Cliffs of Dooneen
- Come Back Paddy Reilly
- The Connemara Cradle Song
- The Curragh of Kildare
- Danny Boy
- The Dawning of the Day
- The Dear Little Shamrock
- Farewell to Nova Scotia
- The Fields of Athenry
- The Flower of Sweet Strabane
- Follow me up to Carlow
- The Galway Races
- The Garden where the Patties Grow
- The Harp that Once
- The Homes of Donegal
- The Irish Emigrant (I’m Sitting on the Stile, Mary)
- The Irish Rover
- Kelly of Killane
- The Kerry Dances
- The Last Rose of Summer
- The Leaving of Liverpool
- Love Thee Dearest
- Mary from Dungloe
- The Moon Behind the Hill
- The Mountains of Mourne
- My Dear Own Galway Bay
- O’Donnell Abu
- Oft in the Stilly Night
- The Queen od Connemara
- Raglan Road
- The Rocks of Bawn
- Roddy McCorley
- The Rose of Tralee
- The Sally Gardens
- The Shores of Amerikay
- Skibbereen
- Slievenamon
- The Snowy Breasted Pearl
- The Spinning Wheel
- The Stone Outside Dan Murphy’s House
- Teddy O’Neill
- The Waxies’ Dargle
- The wearing of the Green
- The Wild Colonial Boy
- The Wild Rover
- The Wren Boy’s Song
