The Dubliners ain't half bad either.
― Ed, Friday, 29 June 2007 09:43 (sixteen years ago) link
luke kelly.
― darraghmac, Friday, 29 June 2007 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
also, what's with lack of WB Yeats love upthread?
― darraghmac, Friday, 29 June 2007 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned's question inspired me to dig out that Planxty 2004 album. It is GRATE.
― accentmonkey, Friday, 29 June 2007 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned, not quite full blown trad....but you can't go wrong with Christy Moore.
My lord, the prosecution cites "Don't Forget Your Shovel".
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
search: Planxty's "The Well Below The Valley", if only for the title track.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Also "The Voyage", and his version of "Ride On".
― accentmonkey, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
If it's the same one the Devil's Interval do then it's got incest and 6 cases of abortion/infanticide, body count is the hallmark of a good folk song.
― Ed, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Planxty, yes - I only know the first three albums though. Also that Andy Irvine+Paul Brady album - in fact, is Andy Irvine famous? He's certainly not as famous as he should be! (He's also from London, of course!)I don't know as much about Irish music as I should.
― Tom D., Friday, 29 June 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
yes well, not every track! I'm out of my depth here, and I've forgotten my shovel.
― Ronan, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Planxty, yes - I only know the first three albums though. Also that Andy Irvine+Paul Brady album - in fact, is Andy Irvine famous?
he is famous enough, but maybe not as famous as he deserves to be. He plays live a lot in Whelans, and every time I go to see him I kick myself for not going to see him every time he plays, as he is awesome.
In a piece of inspired supportage, the first time I saw him was when he was supporting Will Oldham; a whole new generation of fans was born.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
He is awesome. Everything I've ever heard him do, from Sweeney's Men onwards, has been great, and he always seems like the most talented and yet least well known in whatever setup he's involved in.
― Tom D., Friday, 29 June 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I think he is all about the music rather than about the self-promotion.
I love his song about how Ronnie Drew is actually a culchie.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
CINCINNATI -- A man was caught Tuesday morning inside a car with his pants down.
Police said Kim Leblanc broke into a parked car overnight on Central Parkway, and the owner found him asleep inside and called police.
Officers said Leblanc was not wearing any pants when they arrived. Investigators said Leblanc told them he had done drugs and believed that a leprechaun had let him into the car.
Leblanc remains in police custody on a variety of charges.
― omar little, Thursday, 18 October 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
top scientist claims irish less intelligent than other ethnicities,
blames leprechaun influence.
― darraghmac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Thieving Irish. Here's something funny: I'm American, and my grandfather raised us to be conscious of our Irish heritage. We just find out our Irish side actually came from England ... and had lived there for centuries before coming to the US, rather than actually coming here from Ireland during the potato/weird root tasting beer/cable knit sweater famine.
So what's the deal with that - English, Irish, what? I'm sure most of the people who claim Irish heritage here are less of Irish heritage than suspected.
http://www.dk-ink.com/AngelsRemembered/files/leprechaun.gif
― burt_stanton, Friday, 19 October 2007 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh who knows. My family could care less about it, we're American...but my boyfriend's family is v v proudly Irish...except at this point all their relatives back home live in the Leith district of Edinburgh. At least they're all Hibs supporters!
― Laurel, Friday, 19 October 2007 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
um, hibs aren't the 'irish' team in scotland.
― darraghmac, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:40 (sixteen years ago) link
they are one of the Irish teams, as far as I know. especially if you live in Edinburgh. Scots may know better.
― Ronan, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Hibs were the "Irish" team in Scotland before Celtic were.
― onimo, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
If by "Irish" you mean "charitable club set up by members of the Catholic church to provide aid to poverty stricken Catholics who were mostly Irish immigrants" or something. Hibernian means Irish, doesn't it?
― onimo, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Dundee United also followed the Hibs model and were originally called Dundee Hibernian.
― onimo, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
um, oh, look, just,
look, they aren't the 'irish' team in scotland. come on!
― darraghmac, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Not any more, no. People generally support Hibs if they're from east Edinburgh
― onimo, Friday, 19 October 2007 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
My grandparents came over from Donegal, and couldn't stand all the Irish trappings all the people here embraced. Then again, who really gives a shit.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I wd have said they were more the "Catholic" team than the "Irish" team, but, y'know, I'm not going to argue about it.
― Laurel, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
FOR A CHANGE
Also the bf is disgruntled by Oirish-Americans who profess love to Guinness and etc etc -- he says real Irish people drink Budweister, because it's good enough and it's cheap. Ahhh the keystone of our young love....
― Laurel, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
The fuck is wrong with my typing this morning? Love OF Guinness, and Budweiser.
― Laurel, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
every post on ilx should have "Then again, who really gives a shit" as its coda.
― jed_, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Also the bf is disgruntled by Oirish-Americans who profess love to Guinness and etc etc -- he says real Irish people drink Budweister, because it's good enough and it's cheap.
that's like the way English people drink lame-o lagers instead of real ale.
It's funny though... in general I am against patriotism and nationalism, but I feel that it is very important that I drink Guinness and not foreign drinks.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel that it's very important that I drink Guinness. I also feel very strongly about not drinking horse-piss. It's a win-win situation.
― Ray, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I like Guiness and Budweiser. Not because I'm third generation Irish but because they taste good (to me and I like to get fucked up.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/02/ireland
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I am reading Roy Foster's LUCK & THE IRISH. Has anyone else read or even thought about it?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Haven't read it but it sounds interesting. Are you far enough into it to decide if it's worth reading or not?
Ned, I can't believe you don't love " St. Patrick's Day-related idiocies in America." My dog has an Irish name (Declan) so he has to put up with wearing a shamrock kerchief every St Patrick's Day. He loves the beer part of it at least ;-)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/418896575_92f41654dc_m.jpgbeing tortured by wearing said kerchief at a st patrick's parade
― lyra, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yes, it's definitely worth reading! Foster always is, whatever else you think of him.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
At the moment I'm reading about Irish feminists' campaigns for contraceptives etc in the 1970s; to do what they did in that society I think they had to be very imaginative and courageous.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Did we all realise Conor Cruise O;Brien snuffed it, btw?
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes.
― hyggeligt, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link
What's the best thing to read by him then?
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I've got Herod but it's one of these ludicrous situations where it just looks so imposing that I've bottled out of even opening it
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
― Local Garda, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"it went all the way up my gowl"
― Local Garda, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
no sound at work :(
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
"why do you ride hippos?"
meme potential there.
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Anybody want to recommend some traditional Irish music?
This was waaaaaay up there a while ago, but if any ilxor has the chance to glom onto a copy of the somewhat obscure CD by Alasdair Fraser (fiddle) and Natalie Haas (cello) titled Fire and Grace, they will not be disappointed.
It is musically impeccable. Virtuoso playing, emotionally charged and gracefully performed. Plus, you could dance to it. Top drawer. Hot shit. Strongly recommended.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, most of the catalog by the group Altan is exceptionally good.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
can't get this put of my head lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa7birRBmNM
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
love the 'rocky road to dublin'. there's a live recording i have where youre like 'where is he pausing for breath?', hes just belting it out.
― Michael B, Friday, 7 August 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
can't say I've noticed any additional pageantry myself
― Number None, Thursday, 1 February 2024 09:28 (three months ago) link
local phenomenon so
two bands are separately closing in on a well here, honest to god the cops are escortinf them, its got potential to be that monthy python sketch where the womens guild re-enacts the batgle of bosworth etc
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 12:23 (three months ago) link
"In her honour, a perpetual fire was kept burning at Kildare for centuries"
they got bored with the perpetual fire after a few centuries
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 1 February 2024 12:29 (three months ago) link
is st brigids day getting biggeris it getting /weirder/or did i just move local+ its a big anniversary
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 12:51 (three months ago) link
yes
this lot look like they might start nailing elves and pixies to them
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 13:37 (three months ago) link
Well you know my feelings about interfering with the little people
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 13:39 (three months ago) link
Bridget is the saint of abortion this is a REPEAL thing
― plax (ico), Thursday, 1 February 2024 14:49 (three months ago) link
as always i think you have hit the heart of it
brigid is a REMAINER
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 23:05 (three months ago) link
Ty
― plax (ico), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:07 (three months ago) link
That Jack and Alice programme on Channel 4 is not good, but it was cute to see Domhnall Gleeson pretending to do chemistry while quietly singing "Tá Teidí ag Rith."
― trishyb, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 13:44 (three months ago) link
Limerick man has some thoughts on a 3 bed semi-detached for sale in Clontarf. pic.twitter.com/DrV78jgK9W— Tull McAdoo (@TullMcAdoo) March 29, 2024
some interesting thoughts on the housing market
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 March 2024 14:02 (two months ago) link
Deems what the fuck is this
get out and have a laugh pic.twitter.com/ItS6Jo5ypQ— Subprime 🧱 (@sbprme) April 4, 2024
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 5 April 2024 10:13 (one month ago) link
Caolán Hunt?
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 April 2024 10:44 (one month ago) link
the fuck am i being held responsible for her that fella is clearly from malahide
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 5 April 2024 11:06 (one month ago) link
Obsolutely sending it
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 5 April 2024 11:16 (one month ago) link
lødz
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 5 April 2024 11:17 (one month ago) link
Unrealhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMKgW0RW0AAlJTW?format=jpg&name=large
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 27 April 2024 10:56 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgtL1pWdbYA
― Number None, Friday, 17 May 2024 16:12 (one week ago) link
Bop of the summer.
― trishyb, Friday, 17 May 2024 16:42 (one week ago) link
banger
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 17 May 2024 22:45 (one week ago) link
tír gan rapping kids tír gan anam
― that's that me: a Viking (seandalai), Saturday, 18 May 2024 17:46 (one week ago) link