Irish songs

As I went back from Ireland, I kept in my mind all the Irish songs I heard and I learned.

Let's imagine the place where I spent two weeks in July 2006 and July 2007. A village between the small moutain and the see, in the county of Castletown Bere. There are three hundred inhabitants, three pubs.

And a man.

A man famous in the South of Eire, who plays Irish musics and sing Irish songs with another musician. Ecki. The man who taught us Irish music (we were more or less twenty French musicians).

And I discovered Irish songs.

There are about five different subjects in Irish songs.
- Pub songs, which talk about Irish alcohols, whiskey, beer, Porter and Mountain Dew... Usually everybody in the pub sings the song with the musicians. The most famous pub song is The Wild Rover (here sung by The Dubliners)
- Love songs, which talk about... well, you can guess. One of the most famous is The Spanish Lady (once more by The Dubliners)
- Songs about past everyday life (usually before the civil war), as Scarbourough Fair (by Canticle)
- Songs about the civil war, as the famous Boulavogue (here by Bredan Bowyer, I don't really like the synthesizer but he has got a great voice) You can also search for "Only Our Rivers Run Free", which is also very famous.
- To finish, songs about America, as there was a very important emigration to America during the famin in the 18th century. It's between Irish music and Coutry music. For example : The House of Rising Sun (by The Animals, very hard to find it played by an Irish band... I'm sure you will recognize the melody). Another which is less famous, Joe Hill (by Luke Kelly, a great Irish singer)

Enjoy, comment and, please. If you know other Irish bands or if you find beautiful Irish songs, please share it.