Best Irish songs

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Is @Fagan_ODowd still around?

Don’t tell me he has resorted to posting under a different name.

He was on here a while back advocating Mandinka by Sinead O’Connor as one of the top Irish singles of all time. I was surprised with the call initially but then we talked it some more and we decided he was right.

Forget all that ould dirge posted above.

‘Any Tipperary town’ by Louise Morrissey is the best by a long shot.

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Johnny - when was the last time you heard a naughty word?

The Frames - Revelate
Therapy? - Diane
Kerbdog - Mexican Wave (Throw “Sally” in there too!)
Sultans of Ping FC - Where’s me jumper?
JJ72 - Oxygen
Republic of Loose - Hold Up!
Pogues - Streams of Whiskey
Undertones - Jimmy

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The original Tipperary Heifer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_EGqPL6Ig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NUfjBbyFPg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPPi58K6wZs

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Tonight we fllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

:clap:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPFJQBZXHb0

Full show there mate. Unrale. Divine Comedy are tragically under-recognised.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdK_TBrBGs

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Their (his) second album Promenade would have been my favourite Irish album for a long time. Then the sheer might of Heartworm took it over.

Parts of Cassanova are very good as well but then he seemed to chase the coin with the National Express and all that garbage.

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Nil na la, Solas (great opener)
Rip the Calico, Bothy band
The Foggy Dew, Sineid
Arthur McBride, Paul Brady
Rainy night in soho, Pogues
In the garden, Van the man
Hiroshima, Moving Hearts
Only our rivers run free, Christy Moore
Galway Bay, Dolores Keane

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Mamas Boys Needle in the Groove

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Great call. I challenge anyone to name a better hard rock band made up of farmers’ sons from Fermanagh.

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Hit the Diff - Marty Mone

The boys of Barr na Sraide - this is my favourite version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPbbfOT92co

Canadian Geese - Damien Dempsey

I suppose at the end of the day we all need to get paid. A pity they are remembered for that dross though.

  1. We don’t need nobody else - Whipping Boy
  2. Happiness is mine – Revelino
  3. Pair of brown eyes - The Pogues
  4. Tonight we fly – The Divine Comedy
  5. Speed to my side - Rollerskate Skinny
  6. Thousands are sailing - The Pogues
  7. I’m not awake yet - Rory Gallagher
  8. The hunchback of San Francisco - Perry Blake
  9. The night poor Larry was stretched - Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
  10. Cliffs of Doonen – Planxty
  11. Foggy Dew – Luke Kelly
  12. The Rocky Road to Dublin – Luke Kelly
  13. McAlpines Fusiliers – Ronnie Drew
  14. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues

Bonus Track: Into the Mystic - Van Morrison

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Sinead O’ Connor - Thief of your heart