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    Home > Collections > Playlists

    Songs of history and politics

    from The Góilín Song Project

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    Monto, song / Barry Gleeson, singing in English

    Barry Gleeson, Peta Webb,

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    • Monto, song / Barry Gleeson, singing in English

    • We’re only here for exploration, song / Tom Crean, singing in English

    • Willie McCrea, song / Sean Mone, singing in English

    • Articles two and three, song / Sean Mone, singing in English

    • David Trimble and loyal Orange heroes of Comber, song / Sean Mone, singing in English

    • Nelson’s Pillar, song / Luke Cheevers, singing in English

    • Johnny’s gone for a soldier, song / Eddie Doyle, singing in English

    • Sweet Erin the Green, song / Dick Hogan, singing in English

    • High Germany, song / Finbar Boyle, singing in English

    • Irish soldier boy, song / Johnny Collins, singing in English

    • Pat O’Donnell, song / Johnny Collins, singing in English

    • The eighteenth of June, song / Frank Harte, singing in English

    • Lecture on Napoleon, lecture / Frank Harte, speech in English

    • The green linnet, song / Tim Lyons, singing in English

    • Boney’s lamentation, song / Jim MacFarland, singing in English

    • The plains of Waterloo, song / Siobhan McQuaid, singing in English

    • Done with Bonaparte, song / Jerry O’Reilly, singing in English

    • Napoleon’s farewell to Paris, song / Terry Timmins, singing in English

    • The green linnet , song / Eddie Clarke, singing in English

    • The world turned upside down, song / Karan Casey, singing in English

    • Grace, song / Ken Hall and Peta Webb, singing in English

    • Boys of Ballinamore, song / Luke Cheevers, singing in English

    • The jail of Cluain Meala, song / Pat Costelloe, singing in English

    • Slievenamon, song / Dessie Coyle, singing in English

    • Farewell to Pripyat, song / Tim Dennehy, singing in English

    • Michael Dwyer’s lament, song / Mick Fowler, singing in English

    • The croppy boy, song / Róisín Gaffney, singing in English

    • The Mullingar recruit (Keep in touch), song / Róisín Gaffney, singing in English

    • The ballad of Persse O’Reilly, song / Barry Gleeson, singing in English

    • Black Jack Davey, song / Sara Grey, singing in English

    • Down in Mississippi, song / Sara Grey, singing in English

    • No Irish need apply, song / Frank Harte, singing in English

    • Hans Beimler, Commissar, song / Frank Harte, singing in English

    • The wild colonial boy, song / Frank Harte, singing in English

    • Pat Maguire, song / Frank Harte, singing in English

    • The wheels of the world, song / Frank Harte, singing in English

    • Johnny I hardly knew you, song / Frank Harte, singing in English

    • The rights of man, song / Frank Harte, singing in English

    • The captains and the kings, song / Aidan Holmes, singing in English

    • Griffin’s Downhill, song / Dominic Kelly, singing in English

    • All the fine young men, song / Robert Kelly, singing in English

    • Turlough O’Boyle, song / Mary Kenny, singing in English

    • No Man’s land 1913, song / Cormac McConnell, singing in English

    • Blind Sheehan, song / Charlie McGonigle (James Eoghain), singing in English

    • John Lover’s gone, song / Kieron Means, singing in English

    • Johnny come down, song / Dan Milner and Bob Conroy, singing in English

    • The blockade runner, song / Dan Milner and Bob Conroy, singing in English

    • Erin go brath, song / Kevin Mitchell, singing in English

    • Granuaile, song / Kevin Mitchell, singing in English

    • Rosalita and Jack Campbell, song / Sean Mone, singing in English

    • Done with Bonaparte, song / Terry Moylan, singing in English

    • Peace in Erin, song / Gerry O’Hanlon, singing in English

    • Pat O’Donnell, song / Sarah Ann O’Neill, singing in English

    • Farmer Michael Hayes, song / Jerry O’Reilly, singing in English

    • The red flag, song / Manus O’Riordan, singing in English

    • Song for Charlie Donnelly, song / Manus O’Riordan, singing in English

    • Reconcilliation, song / Niamh Parsons, singing in English

    • The banks of the Nile, song / Niamh Parsons, singing in English

    • The peddler, song [comp. Maria Dunn] / Niamh Parsons, singing in English

    • The bard of Armagh, song / Mick Quinn, singing in English

    • The banks of the Nile, song / Rosie Stewart, singing in English

    • Rosalita and Jack Campbell, song / Rosie Stewart, singing in English

    • A Fenian ballad, song / Terry Timmins, singing in English

    • The banks of the Moy, song / Josephine Boland, singing in English

    • An spealadóir [comp. Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin], song / Éamon Ó Bróithe, singing in Irish, singing in English

    • White, yellow and green, song / Frank Browne, singing in English

    • The old bog road, song / Jack Carroll, singing in English

    • Peace in Erin, song / Áine Uí Cheallaigh, singing in English

    • Marching through Georgia, song / Bob Conroy, singing in English

    • Only our rivers run free, song / Charlie Costelloe, singing in English

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