What is your favourite traditional Irish song? Why?

Answer 1

Fields of Athenry....It was also my fathers favourite and when I sing or play it, it always reminds me of him, singing it to my mum.

Answer 2

The Parting Glass

Answer 3

The Island by Paul Brady. Because it's sad , hauntingly beautiful, musically brilliant. If I could pick an Irish song to have written, this is the one.

Answer 4

i've got continually been prepared on Danny Boy. My momma used to sing that to me while i substitute right into a wee lad. in actuality, i substitute into curiously making a song a duet of it with an Irish nurse on an identical time as i substitute into under sedation a pair weeks in the past. i'm useful it delivered the dwelling house down.

Answer 5

Oh, this is a hard question because there are so many good ones! Maybe a tie between "Danny Boy" and "On the Bonnie, Bonnie banks of Loch Lomen"

Answer 6

The traditional song "Danny Boy" It tells about a fathers love for his son. He is dyeing, and will be there for his son in sunshine and in shadow.

Answer 7

it goes... 'as I came home on monday night as drunk as drunk could be...' and goes on to detail each drunken day of the week and the absurd things a wife will tell a drunk husband to stop him finding out she is having it away while he is in the pub getting 'as drunk as drunk could be'
dont know what it's called but it's so funny I love it... it is traditional though, the pub and getting drunk in one is tradition in Ireland.

Answer 8

Whiskey in the jar and metellica did a very good version now thats one that gets every1 going
PS AMERICAN SOMETHING ARE YOU SURE THATS IRISH LOOKS MORE LIKE WELSH?

Answer 9

CALON LAN YN LLAWN DIONI TEGACH YW NAR LILLY DLOS DIM OND CALON LAN ALL GANU CANUR DYDD A CHANUR NOS.

Answer 10

Paddy go home