The Rocky Road To Dublin (1968)

[MichelleSeven]

best drinking song in the world ;D

[TheCeleryking]

this is fucking brilliant and I dont care if I get told off for saying so

[rebkev01]

Luke Kelly playing guitar?

[kieran111222]

ya mean damien dempsey sounds like him!

[Seanmcdhuibhne]

The girl to Teds left is my great great grandmother and lived in Marrowbone Lane Flats Great version

[robbyfromireland]

I met the guy singing here today, Ted McKenna, a gent, still supping pints of guinness and what a voice! I will put the video up on youtube of him singing at Peter Lennon's tribute in the Irish Film Institute.

[7Berge7Zwerge]

Great. And Ireland is also fantastic! November 2010 i travel alone by care through the burren area in county clare (westcoast). one week in a mystical, magical landscape with nice people anf great memories. Unforgetable!.

[sidDkid87]

Erin Go Bragh!!!

[BlackFolkAndPiano]

so fascinating clip... i'll surely watch the film

[rjtierney100]

that pint looks dodgy

[wmpitcher]

@rjtierney100 That's so funny. I was thinking the same thing. Almost looked like a Coke rather than a Guinness.

[bazzR1976]

@wmpitcher

thats real sout ny boy

[wmpitcher]

@rjtierney100 That's so funny. I was thinking the same thing. Almost looked like a Coke rather than a Guinness.

[harmonywriter]

All tracks of the LP below (The Whistlebinkies & Ted McKenna - Berlin GDR 1976) can be heard on YouTube under, for example, "The Whistlebinkies & Ted McKenna 1976 The Dirty Blackleg Miner", etc (visuals are just a photo of the album cover)

[harmonywriter]

The details of the LP mentioned below can be seen on the "time-has-told-me" site or on The Whistlebinkies own site under Chronicle for 1976. This group, based in Scotland, has only recently made contact again with Ted McKenna after a gap of nearly 35 years. The other songs he sings on that LP are Ewan McColl's 'Champion at Keepin' Them Rollin' and 'The Dirty Blackleg Miner' as well as choruses with Mick Broderick and the rest of The Whistlebinkies.

[harmonywriter]

A question a while back was about any more recordings by Ted McKenna. There was an LP recorded February, 1976, in East Berlin (German Democratic Republic) called "The Whistlebinkies & Ted McKenna" on the Amiga label of VEB Deutsche Schallplatten (Amiga stereo 845127). They were all there for the 6th Festival of Political Song (the festival has been revived in recent years as 'Festival Musik und Politik'). He sings The Rocky Road to Dublin on it as well as other songs and choruses.

[omg5501]

heh! great singin'!

[TheWiiking1000]

thats  ted mckenna my grand dad and spudsuker is my brother

[mickryan1000]

@TheWiiking1000 Is that Teddy McKenna really your grandad? Did he ever end up driving a taxi by any chance?

[MsPatty1952]

Give Ireland back to the Irish and Scotland back to the Scots! Fuck the Brits that suck up to the American Warmongers. I am proud to be a Socialist!

Peace & Love Patty

[finbarboyle]

That's Ted McKenna. Theilm itself is well worth buying. f

[J6Studios]

@finbarboyle Damn! Does look like Ted McKenna. I just knew him as a drummer!

[irishgeal1]

fair play to the man who ever he was, a great rendition.  dos anyone know his name please.

[declan3906]

What is the name of the band and who the the French cinematographer? Anyone ///Cheers?

[declan3906]

Raoul Coutard cinematography .. Shot between Truffaut's Jules et Jim and Goddard's le weekend.

[spudsucker]

go on teddy

[ScottInVa1760]

LOVE that song!

[mmmphilippe]

@ScottInVa1760

Try the same with "The High Kings", very nice version.

[malachy1847]

@mmmphilippe I love this version of the song and way he just rolls his shoulders puls the West of Ireland accent ....[ the quitar player looks like his younger brother...]

[andybandini07]

ireland

[wolfsvillewarrior]

GLORIOUS!

[judematrix81]

Awesome!!! Love it.....

[hailtothevictorz]

Shocked...one of the most awesome things I have ever seen. Thank You

[kevleitrim]

@hailtothevictorz try dervish 3 jigs , cheers!

[hailtothevictorz]

@kevleitrim Thank You, reminds me of the great evenings I spent at JD MCGurks in Soulard, St Lois back in the early 90's

[Chesterton7]

nice. one of my favorite songs

[truedub1916]

yer man is d image of christy moore

[bmrti]

Spot on! Just like the man himself! Good delivery as well...

[deirdrec1]

This is magic!! Thanks for sharing!! Anyone got the words to this, could do it for my party piece, would be an honour!! x ;)

[wolfsvillewarrior]

google it

[deirdrec1]

Just an idea to do it with vid and lyrics, but they're not on YT together., shame.

[otherskg]

This is music!

[ShamNameHatchets]

thats great....thanks for the response spud

[ShamNameHatchets]

the lad singin sounds like damien dempsey....

[EamhainMhacha]

Could well be his da.

[spudsucker]

the led singer in ted mackenna my granda

[schillaci1987]

do you have any of his tapes or anything?

[TheGuyThatSaysStuff]

@ShamNameHatchets yeah he really does. Two great singers

[bugsnerb]

this is my favourite video on youtube, I'd love to see the full documentary

[ajlib]

this is in odonegues(cant remember spelling) isnt it?

[yokerist]

its a superb documentary, somes up Ireland in those days could only have been made by an exile!

[kapihanaokealoha]

very nice gents! Aloha!

[enxo65]

I love this song!!!!!

[peaceonearth6060]

does somebody know some instrumantal irish band?

[bettyswollex]

the cheiftans,- the bothy band.... enjoy

[HappyStPats]

Thanks for putting this clip up! I posted "The Making of..." as video responses. It is a movie that deserves to be seen by Irish and others. Amazing transformation - to think that when this film was made, I was around 11 years old...

[sandroilmagnifico]

The McKenna Brothers had first rate voices, in the same league as Liam Clancy, Luke Kelly, or Ronnie Drew. Are there any unknown records of them out there?

[ShamNameHatchets]

if there was they wouldnt be unknown! :oP

[krevrev85]

@sandroilmagnifico who is that singing?

[andsusul]

Amazing movie.

I just wish the dound quality was a tad better than it is, i love this song.

Thank you for posting this.

[jgquango]

This is a cracking good film for anyone, Irish or otherwise, interested in what a backward, priest-ridden backwater our country was in the very recent past, and a lesson to others on how reactionary forces can throttle the life out of any democracy that doesn't take care to renew itself and guard against polite fascism

[sinster555]

Got any more info on this movie?

[EamhainMhacha]

You can find out more about it on imdb. Amazon are also selling copies for £9 sterling.