Descripción: "The Irish Rover" is a traditional Irish song about a magnificent sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end. It has been recorded by numerous artists, some of whom have made changes to the lyrics.

Descripción: This is a segment from D. A. Pennebaker's film, Dont Look Back (a documentary on Bob Dylan's tour of England in 1965). In the film, Dylan holds up cue cards for the audience with words from the song on them. While staring at the camera, he flips the cards as the song plays. Interestingly, there are intentional errors throughout the video. For instance, the song's lyrics say "eleven dollar bills," ...

Descripción: Bob Dylan - Masters of War

Descripción: This song was written by Dominic Behan to the tune of 'The Jackets Green'. It tells of the Irish who emigrated over to England, and ended up in the construction industry, frequently exploited, working in bad and dangerous conditions. McAlpine, Wimpey and John Laing were major employers of the Irish. RIP Ronnie.

Descripción: "The Black Velvet Band" is a traditional Irish folk song concerning the waves of Irish people who were sent to places like Australia for their crimes. This song is about a tradesman who meets a young woman who has stolen an item and passed it on to him (the lyrics of the song vary from place to place). The man then appears in court the next day, charged with stealing the item and is sent to Austra...

Descripción: This song chronicles the Easter Uprising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than of England, as so many young men were doing in World War I.

Descripción: Bob Dylan & Eric Clapton - Crossroads. From "Eric Clapton and Friends In Concert" at Madison Square Garden on 30 July 1999 in aid of 'The Crossroads Centre' in Antigua that Eric set up to help alcoholics and drug users.

Descripción: The Lark In The Morning Martin Carthy With Steeleye Span - 1970 Source: the Free Reed CD-Rom given to buyers of the Carthy Box-set - see free-reed.co.uk/carthy .

Descripción: Fairytale of New York reputedly takes its name from the book, A Fairytale of New York, by James Patrick (JP) Donleavy which was a favorite of Shane's father.

Descripción: This song was written by Joni Mitchell about the Magdalene Asylums which were homes for "fallen" women, most of them operated by different orders of the Roman Catholic Church. It has been estimated that 30,000 women were admitted during the 150-year history of these institutions, often against their will. The last Magdalene Asylum in Ireland closed on September 25, 1996. One such Irish institution...

Descripción: Christy Moore - Johnny Don't Go To Ballincollig Live recording of John Spillane's song with Christy Moore, Donal Lunny, Declan Sinnott and John Spillane.

Descripción: This song written by Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger tells the story of a terrible mine disaster in Nova Scotia in Canada.

Descripción: Christy Moore - John O' Dreams by Bill Caddick Christy recorded this back in 1978 on the album The Iron Behind The Velvet. The video is from The Late Late Show.

Descripción: Cardiff International Arena 23 September 2000

Descripción: Go Down,Ye Murderers (The Ballad of Tim Evans)was written by Ewan MacColl about Timothy John Evans (November 20, 1924 -- March 9, 1950). Evans was a young man, possibly mentally retarded, who was hanged in the United Kingdom in 1950 for the murder of his wife and infant daughter. The real murderer was Evans' neighbour and landlord (at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London), John Christie. Even...

Descripción: Metropolitan Avenue by Noel Brazil CHRISTY'S COMMENT I first met Noel Brazil when he came in and played support to Moving Hearts in the Baggott Inn in 1982.He was an extremely nervous performer and a brilliant songwriter. He recorded a number of albums before passing on- far too young.He was ill at ease with the world but I always loved to meet him.I sang another of his songs "Suffocate" in t...

Descripción: The Langer: Tim O'Riordan and Natural Gas. The number one in the Irish Hit Parade in 2004.

Descripción: Bob Dylan-One Too Many Mornings/Queen Jane Approximately. Sound from Supper Club, New York. 16 November 1993. Video source unknown.

Descripción: Prague 13 March 1995

Descripción: Hans Theesink, Donovan, Arlo Guthrie - Columbus Stockade Blues.Filmed during a 2002 recording session for the album Banjoman-A Tribute To Derroll Adams