Paddy, many thanks again. This song and your rendition of it rips my heart out. As the old poem goes, it resembles sadness as the mist resembles the rain. Beautiful.
Fair play to you Paddy, the voice has the "nyong" I was in in England of Irish parents, love my Irish & English roots, (makes it a bit of a b******d at the 5 nations tho'!).
I've an English Mum, a Welsh Father, My Grandfather was Irish......a Mongrel lol but love Scotland and holiday there and Ireland......wer'e all Celt decent........I'm ashamed of the way we neglected Ireland during the famine, but that was then and this is now......lets all remember and be loyal to our country but let us progess from those awful days and unite so it never happens again.
I do think there are people who won't let the pass lie and like to agitate, we have to move on to make a better world and make sure things like that are never allowed to happen again. Look at the clearances in Scotland and that was their own people who did that to them. All through history there has been wrong doings on all sides, remember it but dont let it fill our hearts with hate.
The evil people that caused that are long gone darkoanton5 so they arent going to apologise. You only have to read comments on here to see how much hate still seethes. The English no longer go fighting the Scottish, the Scottish no longer come down to Battle the English. We dont go rampaging wanting to battle with the Welsh. The Catholics & Protestants in England, Scotland & Wales all intergrate peacefully........food for thought!
They are long gone darkoanton5, so you wont be getting an apology from them. The English, Scottish,& Welsh have all learnt through time and civilisation to live together Catholics & Protestants alike . Somehow theres a minority of the Irish people that havent learnt how to do that yet and they have no respect for their own countrymen. Food for thought perhaps!
@1vatersay There is a French saying in Canada from the provice of Quebec. It is Je me souviens. It means I will remember. Never forget the past. Forgive yes. Forget - never. Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It
@1vatersay You just want people to forget history when it is convient for your side. Let's say we wiped the slate clean on all wrong doings of the 20th century. Is that fair enough?
This is to rabbithog the coward. I know you are looking to get a reaction and you got one. Many people starved to death in the famine you scumbag. Get a life....
What a simply beautiful song and wonderful voice, but the video cuts off half way through, volume is exceptional, really strong voice. Go Paddy Reilly!
its sad why do all the huns rip the piss of this is sad man i am from scotland i dont like to no the ireland had 10.000000m
then after all the shit stoped theres only 6.565400m 2.000000m left ireland the rest died cos some dick head was taking the piss its sad i would do it two if that was the last way and so would you and you no that
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Only if you were starving back in 1845 when there was nothing to feed your little babies, and you had to look at their still, grey faces, gaunt, and lifeless. That's when you risked prison for the sake of your family, that meant the world to you. Patronising aren't you, don't you think !
Yes I am aware of that too, I am not so stupid as to not know that there is always a wider picture. But sometimes a song will portray in the only way that music can do, the sadness and pathos that existed for the Irish people during that dark time in their history. I am merely pointing out that I am aware of that time.I am also aware of other times of misery, too many to mention here, are you ? ?, or are you too busy criticising others' observations !
You made a comment on my post not me on you. Maybe you have a problem with "criticising".
Typical Irish response when it comes to the famine.
5.4 plus million die on both sides in the Vietnam war, I bet you did not know that, yet everyone should know or care about the Irish and the famine, typical.
By the way criticising others is also a part of YouTube Joe, if you have a problem with it then set up a club JUST for you and others with the same view.
It can easily be transpoes to the orange groves or Spain during that sad civil war when volunteers from all over came to fight for ideology or perhaps for a better world . Tha republicans had a long wail for victory. Viva comrades!
Sorry I meant the Spanish republicans, even there the Basques are waiting to be free. It's all relative and I do understand when you talk about people ending up on the dole after thirty odd years of fighting. It took an age before everyone got round the tables it is inevitable. Look towards Afghanistan what is going to happen there? Regards and best wishes for the new year,
The fact that all have suffered does not diminish the suffering of one. All peoples of all times have been subject to abuse and depredations. Most weave their tales of woe in song and poetry. The Irish have every right to bemoan their misfortune and you have every duty to show forbearance. Move on? Perhaps it would be best. Forget? Never. These are lessons which man has yet to learn. And those who do not wish to hear them, have not learned.
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remember our fathers brave and bold as they fought for ulsters cause in far off lands fuck bobby sands hes deed and my father said to me i must join the ycv wihth a rifle or a pistol in my hand yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaa that version u mean ya mickey bastard lol we are the people !!!!!!!!!!!!
I just adore irish music, and have been listening to it the last week or two. I have become quite addicted to it.Paddy Reilley has the voice of an angel, as has Peggy Sweeney.
I am English and enjoy the song whilst being aware of the background. I have lived in SW Ireland and have found the ordinary Irish forgiving and forgetful of the past as we must forget our British past and look towards a good future for our children.
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So much emmotion............so much bo**ocks (postings - not the song!)! If you hate us 'Brits' so much, WHY do so many of you come over here and sponge off of us? :-)
Yer fukin hun bastard Fuk off home ya murdering brit bastard wit ye listening to irish music fur if yar hun !
Plus learn ae spell fammon its fuking famine bet ye yir a big fat bastard too that sits and stares at a calender counting the days tae the 12th ae july the lot ae yees make ma blood crawl.
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fuck you you dirty prod bastard if i ever get me hands on u ill burn you and ur family alive !!!!!!!UP DA RA!!!!!!! DEATH TO ALL IRSH HATEING BASTARDS
fuck you you dirty prod bastard if i ever get me hands on u ill burn you and ur family alive !!!!!!!UP DA RA!!!!!!! DEATH TO ALL IRSH HATEING BASTARDS
I think you need to give your head a shake mate.
I'm a catholic who's family come from Ireland and if i ever met you it wouldn't be the people you are insulting i would like to smack first.
weejonny ya bollix.Go fuck yourself ya stupid cunt,ur nottin but a dirty english prod so fuck on home and never come to Eire or i'll kill ya fuckin bollix gay bastard.I hope you die some painful death.......stupid cunt
Weejonny fuking shut up man. I doint matter tim or hun catholic or protistant any one can enjoy this song its for every one its a very good irish folk song all people can enjoy this song. Some people take it to far if ya caint listen to this song in peice get lost its for every one.
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tell all the tims ya no taht patatoes in ireland ni grow fuck ur nuns n yr priest fuck ur bombs and ur guns the fammon is over ni goooo?!!! ulster will always remain british...
hey mate you just insulted a whole race of people. this song is about a struggle to survive during the famine and its results. this is probably the single most song that every irish person will know (even more than the national anthem) so go listen to a better version of the song before you say something ignorant like that again.....slán
While I have to admit to this song not being my cup of tea (nothing to do with the words or it's meaning, I prefer more upbeat dance music) I have to defend myself by telling you that someone rather drunk person was using my computer and posted the insult above and I know he didn't really mean it because his girlfriend is from Cork.
Don't really understand the comments about Aussies being Brit criminals.....haven't you listened to the lyrics? Actually the majority of Aussies are descendants from Irish people who were deemed to be criminals by the English,later followed up by English criminals who were sent there.
I vow from this time forward NEVER to make another comment on youtube due to the abusive eejits who think they are the kings shit and call everyone down when they make a mistake ..his is so not fucking worth it ..and colummcclelland90 go shite up a stick...
great song . my old uncle (paddy)r.i.p used to say... their's more fecking songs written about ireland you'ed think its was the only fecking country in the world. to which my father would reply.. "god bless you ireland and the old bog road... go on paddy sing us a song. happy memories!
A song is a song. fucking pisses me off when people make it about the divide between cath's and prod's. This is prolly one of the greatest songs ever written and fucking idots have to smear it with politics. FUCK OFF
I was agreeing with you chris, keep the politics out, everybodys had some shit at one time or another, nobody has the sole right for sympathy and the world would be a better place without religion and the one-up-man-ship most of its followers try to get. Surely this song is about the sadness brought on a family by being deported for petty crime? The Lancashire folk songs I mention are taken and enjoyed in their original context and "Ther reyt fettling tackle" as we say up here
Seriously lads, yas are English, of course you want to keep the politics out of a song about our fellers fighting against yours. It's a rebel song like the lad below says, how in the fuck can you keep the 'politics out' of it?
I hear ya! We can only do our part by accepting and showing a loving hand or simple gesture towards humanity( yep,we're all the same in that lable).I pray it's making a difference. Idiotic and pointless hate will destroy us.inevitable!.These songs were born of pain,unspeakable sorrow,and insight,in hopes to make a change for the better.
This is a song about the famine - and it's Malthusian use to allow as many Irish people die as possible. It is also about transportation (when the English made use of convict slave labour in their empire) - if that's not political i know not what is, it's also about love/loss of country and loss of familly.
Good historical song(and I'm English)but spoilt by the political,kick the Brits messages.
The landlord situation happened here.Working class Lancashire where I'm from is a far cry from chocolate box England everybody envisages&its people were cruelly exploited by landowners/mine owners/mill owners who ran the MP's.Plenty of songs about cotton,coal&its hardships.There always has been&always will be "Them who has and them who hasn't" but we didn't have MP's to protect a minority like some did!
Great comment mate i'm Irish it's a fucking disgrace what people are saying on here both irish and english what has happened, happened can't change history.
Please take the time to view my slide show of the Irish Famine Memorial that was recently dedicated in Providence, Rhode Island USA. It was just by chance that I found Paddy Reilly's version of "Fields of Anthenry" to use as background music. Search Bobping3. Thanks...Bob
nothing quite gets the english going like singing this song at full pelt on the top floor of a bulgarian hotel inhabited mostly be english and sung by a scotsman in a kilt - ha ha !!!
Opinion polls normaly say whatever the people who commisioned them paid for them to say thats normal..... 5.2 million died in the systematic starvation of a nation. 1845 - 1850 We learn and move on.. the blame game is for fools.. shit...no other song gets my throat like this one!
Why are people getting all political with their responses to this song. It has nothing to do with politics. Its about someone being deported to Australia after he was caught steeling during the potatoe famin No politics involved
because politics, both Irish and English, exacerbated the problems caused by the famine. The Famine could have been absorbed by our population, but the near slavery of English land-owner's, combined with an arm's legnth approach but Irish Upper class, only servered to prmotoe emigration and hardship. Fields of Anthenrye is not directly a politcal statement as The Dubliners were always a strictly neutral bunch.
You are evidently neither Irish or no nothing of Irish history. The man was trying to keep his family from starving while food was being exported to England.
top of the morn to one an all
multi1606 7 months ago in playlist beutiful
Prachtig!!!
gheideveld1 11 months ago
best song ever erin go bragh
MrSharpybhoy 1 year ago
Paddy, many thanks again. This song and your rendition of it rips my heart out. As the old poem goes, it resembles sadness as the mist resembles the rain. Beautiful.
PattiORorke 1 year ago
The man's a legend. Best ballad singer ever.
TheOwlman001 1 year ago
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vinnyhoags 1 year ago
great music in this song ,sad wee song too. good singer paddy reilly.
jackthebrickie1 1 year ago
what abeutiful song so sad the words
multi1606 1 year ago
paddy reillys a god,lovely song
dixiebhoy 1 year ago
Fair play to you Paddy, the voice has the "nyong" I was in in England of Irish parents, love my Irish & English roots, (makes it a bit of a b******d at the 5 nations tho'!).
patsyod 1 year ago
@patsyod same here my friend
PESKEEE 1 year ago
The incomparable Paddy Reilly !
Wonderful voice
josparkes1 1 year ago
This should be the official song of the British Royalty. Bastards!
darkoanton5 1 year ago
@darkoanton5 fuck them
Anglerrolf 1 year ago
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1vatersay 1 year ago
@darkoanton5
1vatersay 1 year ago
OHHH Baby! Let the Free Birds fly...
liamthedream 1 year ago 2
I've an English Mum, a Welsh Father, My Grandfather was Irish......a Mongrel lol but love Scotland and holiday there and Ireland......wer'e all Celt decent........I'm ashamed of the way we neglected Ireland during the famine, but that was then and this is now......lets all remember and be loyal to our country but let us progess from those awful days and unite so it never happens again.
1vatersay 1 year ago
Some countries are given a free pass it seems on wrong doing.
darkoanton5 1 year ago
I do think there are people who won't let the pass lie and like to agitate, we have to move on to make a better world and make sure things like that are never allowed to happen again. Look at the clearances in Scotland and that was their own people who did that to them. All through history there has been wrong doings on all sides, remember it but dont let it fill our hearts with hate.
1vatersay 1 year ago
An apology would be all that is needed. I'm half English on my mother's side. But, what's right is right. By the way my other half isn't Irish.
darkoanton5 1 year ago
The evil people that caused that are long gone darkoanton5 so they arent going to apologise. You only have to read comments on here to see how much hate still seethes. The English no longer go fighting the Scottish, the Scottish no longer come down to Battle the English. We dont go rampaging wanting to battle with the Welsh. The Catholics & Protestants in England, Scotland & Wales all intergrate peacefully........food for thought!
1vatersay 1 year ago
They are long gone darkoanton5, so you wont be getting an apology from them. The English, Scottish,& Welsh have all learnt through time and civilisation to live together Catholics & Protestants alike . Somehow theres a minority of the Irish people that havent learnt how to do that yet and they have no respect for their own countrymen. Food for thought perhaps!
1vatersay 1 year ago
@1vatersay There is a French saying in Canada from the provice of Quebec. It is Je me souviens. It means I will remember. Never forget the past. Forgive yes. Forget - never. Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It
darkoanton5 1 year ago
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1vatersay 1 year ago
it doesnt sound as you are
forgiving anyone anything tho!
I'm the one that said that already to you!
Do you not read constructive criticism!
1vatersay 1 year ago
@1vatersay
Did I not say, lets remember and learn
from mistakes . Some real nasty jibes on
this forum.
1vatersay 1 year ago
@1vatersay I never said you said that. Where did I say that? I'm not being nasty. I'm merely stating an opinion.
darkoanton5 1 year ago
@1vatersay You just want people to forget history when it is convient for your side. Let's say we wiped the slate clean on all wrong doings of the 20th century. Is that fair enough?
darkoanton5 1 year ago
@darkoanton5
as you say rights right & wrongs wrong,we
cant erase the horrors of he past, just
learn from them. i dont want to argue about
something i wasnt part of. so lets leave it at
that or we'll be here forever xx
1vatersay 1 year ago
@1vatersay Yes.
darkoanton5 1 year ago
This is to rabbithog the coward. I know you are looking to get a reaction and you got one. Many people starved to death in the famine you scumbag. Get a life....
VOLVOPGC 2 years ago
you get a life too, but not here in england the country has had enough of you
rabbithog 1 year ago
Excuse me Rabbithog you ignorant racist bastard ....im Irish and I can assure Im not stupid .....get a mirror in yours and look in it....HELLO THICKO
tillarocks 2 years ago
i bet you are from mayo, or your fathers are
rabbithog 1 year ago
My body cold and hungry,in Parkhurst jail I lie,
For the loving of my country,on hunger strike I die,
I have just one last longing,I pray you'll not deny,
Bury me in Mayo,beneath an Irish sky.
What do have against Mayo?
darkoanton5 1 year ago
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stupid irish bastard
rabbithog 2 years ago
it always amuses how those who hate a race sit around in there mum's basement listening to our music. Get a life.
MrCopperhead1861 1 year ago
@rabbithog
rabbithog lets not stoop to that
level, remember wev'e moved on
and grown more civilised x
1vatersay 1 year ago
OHHH Baby, Let the Free Birds Fly.....
liamthedream 2 years ago
What a simply beautiful song and wonderful voice, but the video cuts off half way through, volume is exceptional, really strong voice. Go Paddy Reilly!
gillwilkinsongw 2 years ago 3
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veryharsh1 2 years ago
Is this about Rupert Murdoch?
Isleofskye 2 years ago
best irish song ever
genaralhawk 2 years ago 5
Your description's not right. Paddy Reilly left The Dubliners in 2005. Great song though.
Tenz0r 2 years ago
Top Song
IrishMike1888 2 years ago
Brillant song, especially at Celtic park on
a cold European Night,
BVB & CELTIC FOR EVER
pal1916 2 years ago 2
Lovely....very, very nice version, with just the right note of poignancy. I can barely sing this one without bursting into tears.
Thank you for this beautiful rendition.
tomkellycartoons 2 years ago 3
when i die this going to be my song
gmcfc 2 years ago
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xdavid98 2 years ago
What the fuck,...
free2astroboy 2 years ago
luv dis song
invesio 2 years ago 2
beautiful song and beautifully sung.
catmoulay 2 years ago 11
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thieving ta\ttie munching cunt deserved to be sent away, what kind of example is that to his kids stealing?
BigFatKevs 2 years ago
You have a Tim name Kevin, who jumped the dike u,r Ma or Da or did you ever know you,r Da.
t8gsj 2 years ago 2
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get the fuck oua here ya cunt
marcC863 2 years ago
@BigFatKevs
so the young might see the morn'... does that ring a bell sherlock?
bertjeofhenk 2 years ago
its sad why do all the huns rip the piss of this is sad man i am from scotland i dont like to no the ireland had 10.000000m
then after all the shit stoped theres only 6.565400m 2.000000m left ireland the rest died cos some dick head was taking the piss its sad i would do it two if that was the last way and so would you and you no that
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gh56hg65 3 years ago
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tattie stealing gypsy thief, give traveline his corn back ya robbing cunt
rongillhaus 3 years ago
haha i agree and i love it!
TheStonedSlackerNZ 2 years ago
Lovely !
JS
3/2/2009
josparkes 3 years ago
its broken
thumper88888 3 years ago
Brilliantly sung by Paddy Reilly as usual !
Jo Sparkes
Norfolk
7/1/2009
josparkes 3 years ago
C'mon Galwaaaay!
LauRaaBabeY08 3 years ago
tears everyvtime from the mcguigan family
janeekel68 3 years ago
It is so beautiful isn't it. You have excellent taste, Paddy Reilly is a wonderful singer.
Jo Sparkes
Norfolk UK
6/1/2009
josparkes 3 years ago
Dont steal tins of corn.
SCD4 3 years ago
Only if you were starving back in 1845 when there was nothing to feed your little babies, and you had to look at their still, grey faces, gaunt, and lifeless. That's when you risked prison for the sake of your family, that meant the world to you. Patronising aren't you, don't you think !
Jo Sparkes
6/1/2009
josparkes 3 years ago
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Life has been hard for millions. Most move on but oh not the Irish.
Like a sad song don't you. Maybe you could tell it to the native Americans, Aztecs or the Russians in the second world war etc etc.
SCD4 3 years ago
Yes I am aware of that too, I am not so stupid as to not know that there is always a wider picture. But sometimes a song will portray in the only way that music can do, the sadness and pathos that existed for the Irish people during that dark time in their history. I am merely pointing out that I am aware of that time.I am also aware of other times of misery, too many to mention here, are you ? ?, or are you too busy criticising others' observations !
Jo Sparkes
Norfolk
7/1/2009
josparkes 3 years ago
You made a comment on my post not me on you. Maybe you have a problem with "criticising".
Typical Irish response when it comes to the famine.
5.4 plus million die on both sides in the Vietnam war, I bet you did not know that, yet everyone should know or care about the Irish and the famine, typical.
By the way criticising others is also a part of YouTube Joe, if you have a problem with it then set up a club JUST for you and others with the same view.
SCD4 3 years ago
I swear, the toughest, most opinionated people in the world sit in front of a screen.
timmyrei 3 years ago
And your where right now? lol
What a dope.
SCD4 3 years ago
This has nothing to do with Vietnam, Walter !!!
sheafferhistorian 2 years ago
How clever you are, it's also nothing to do with Spain, Rupert. lol
SCD4 2 years ago
It can easily be transpoes to the orange groves or Spain during that sad civil war when volunteers from all over came to fight for ideology or perhaps for a better world . Tha republicans had a long wail for victory. Viva comrades!
wobbly585 2 years ago
Victory........British soldiers are still their, the North is still part of the UK and the IRA are all on the dole. They laid down their weapons pal.
SCD3 2 years ago
Sorry I meant the Spanish republicans, even there the Basques are waiting to be free. It's all relative and I do understand when you talk about people ending up on the dole after thirty odd years of fighting. It took an age before everyone got round the tables it is inevitable. Look towards Afghanistan what is going to happen there? Regards and best wishes for the new year,
wobbly585 2 years ago
It is an inside job anyways... all false flag ops to keep the tyranny going, sad but true.
surferpeteinspace 2 years ago
You are a stupid cunt! This song has nothing to do with the fact that Northern Ireland is still occupied. And you spelled THERE wrong!
irishmossy1 2 years ago
The fact that all have suffered does not diminish the suffering of one. All peoples of all times have been subject to abuse and depredations. Most weave their tales of woe in song and poetry. The Irish have every right to bemoan their misfortune and you have every duty to show forbearance. Move on? Perhaps it would be best. Forget? Never. These are lessons which man has yet to learn. And those who do not wish to hear them, have not learned.
P38Jim 3 years ago 3
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remember our fathers brave and bold as they fought for ulsters cause in far off lands fuck bobby sands hes deed and my father said to me i must join the ycv wihth a rifle or a pistol in my hand yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaa that version u mean ya mickey bastard lol we are the people !!!!!!!!!!!!
16kingbilly90 3 years ago
you brit sucm bag hope your ma gets ass raped and left too rot in a dark lane some place dirty hun cunt
gregg1892 3 years ago 2
Now now, dont let us have to give you a slap.
SCD4 2 years ago
a great song , not like the vile rubbish you hear at rangers games.those poeple are scum.
colincky 3 years ago
WOW there are some angry people out there, relax you might live longer LOL
joeygsmom 3 years ago 2
Wonderful as usual !
The great Paddy Reilly.
Jo Sparkes
Norfolk
30/11/2008
josparkes 3 years ago
Wonderful singing as usual.
Jo Sparkes
Norfolk
22/11/2008
josparkes 3 years ago
god he is a legend forever in ireland by this song
iainlonuk 3 years ago
This is the way to sing this somg!
marksim990 3 years ago
btw people please dont insult others on vids, the rest of us really dont want to read negative comments OK?
joeygsmom 3 years ago 3
feck off
bpc1960 3 years ago
wonderful singing Paddy Reilly.
Jo Sparkes
Norfolk
4/11/2008
josparkes 3 years ago
i think he is 1 of the best at this song
brilliant
doone08 3 years ago
I think he is probably the best at this song too.
I have never heard such a clear beautiful voice. He has a talent that is bordering on genius.Love it !
Jo Sparkes
Norfolk
4/11/2008
josparkes 3 years ago
The best song I ever heard
dromede 3 years ago
factnotfictionpeople... shove ur comment right up your own arse ya fucker
liamk9alf 3 years ago
How I wish to god i was in Athenry! in the fields pub!!
Thank youx
reddirtgirl55 3 years ago
Hello
I just adore irish music, and have been listening to it the last week or two. I have become quite addicted to it.Paddy Reilley has the voice of an angel, as has Peggy Sweeney.
Jo Sparkes
Norfolk
18/10/2008
josparkes 3 years ago
sex on fire
flats1916 3 years ago
you wish
mccready123 3 years ago
nice one paddy from the heart
tammilligan5 3 years ago
I love this song. Dont matter who sings it.
Laney1949 3 years ago 2
Factnotfictionpeople
I agree
ChloeEarlam 3 years ago
I am English and enjoy the song whilst being aware of the background. I have lived in SW Ireland and have found the ordinary Irish forgiving and forgetful of the past as we must forget our British past and look towards a good future for our children.
tradjassman 3 years ago 3
whatever
granniejune 3 years ago
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So much emmotion............so much bo**ocks (postings - not the song!)! If you hate us 'Brits' so much, WHY do so many of you come over here and sponge off of us? :-)
Factnotfictionpeople 3 years ago
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If anyone wants to see this song done well, please see the Dropkick Murphys. Paddy Reilly could put a damn meth junkie to bed.
FinnegansWakeUp 3 years ago
The Dropkick Murphys version is alright but it doesn't compare to this.
HaulAwayJoe 3 years ago 4
Weejonny
Yer fukin hun bastard Fuk off home ya murdering brit bastard wit ye listening to irish music fur if yar hun !
Plus learn ae spell fammon its fuking famine bet ye yir a big fat bastard too that sits and stares at a calender counting the days tae the 12th ae july the lot ae yees make ma blood crawl.
Liamlogan1888 3 years ago
You should probably learn to spell fuck. I'm no fan of the brits either, but you're not doing a service to the Irish by being so inarticulate.
t4ll3y 3 years ago 2
god bless this fantastic song . im 1/2 irish now in new zealand but always irish at heart and love this and go munster
1970sullivang 3 years ago 2
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fuck you you dirty prod bastard if i ever get me hands on u ill burn you and ur family alive !!!!!!!UP DA RA!!!!!!! DEATH TO ALL IRSH HATEING BASTARDS
irishfaf 3 years ago
fuck you you dirty prod bastard if i ever get me hands on u ill burn you and ur family alive !!!!!!!UP DA RA!!!!!!! DEATH TO ALL IRSH HATEING BASTARDS
I think you need to give your head a shake mate.
I'm a catholic who's family come from Ireland and if i ever met you it wouldn't be the people you are insulting i would like to smack first.
imploded1 3 years ago
hay baby let the free birds fly
moggassaggom 3 years ago
Paddy reilly is an awesome singer!
moveonupcb 3 years ago 2
let the free birds fly grannie june
granniejune 3 years ago
weejonny ya bollix.Go fuck yourself ya stupid cunt,ur nottin but a dirty english prod so fuck on home and never come to Eire or i'll kill ya fuckin bollix gay bastard.I hope you die some painful death.......stupid cunt
Lennieb4 3 years ago
good call mate, hes a cunt that weejohnny.
Diablo1040 3 years ago
Weejonny fuking shut up man. I doint matter tim or hun catholic or protistant any one can enjoy this song its for every one its a very good irish folk song all people can enjoy this song. Some people take it to far if ya caint listen to this song in peice get lost its for every one.
nathank1988 3 years ago 2
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tell all the tims ya no taht patatoes in ireland ni grow fuck ur nuns n yr priest fuck ur bombs and ur guns the fammon is over ni goooo?!!! ulster will always remain british...
weejonny09 3 years ago
you're really doing your cause a favour there matey...
lutonlutonalltheway 3 years ago
beautiful tiocfaidh ar la
1916supermc 3 years ago
kiss my ass pecker dunn with them ears the very same as a jet plane you old shitey ass
m70dcs 3 years ago
and the same to you ass hole paddy
m70dcs 3 years ago
decent version that's traditional. great song, ahh the days of belting it out at rugby matches...
and if you don't like the song at least explain why, otherwise it's just pointless
xpeak 3 years ago
What a bunch of twats - this song is a piece of shit.
teetotal33 3 years ago
hey mate you just insulted a whole race of people. this song is about a struggle to survive during the famine and its results. this is probably the single most song that every irish person will know (even more than the national anthem) so go listen to a better version of the song before you say something ignorant like that again.....slán
howdee05 3 years ago
While I have to admit to this song not being my cup of tea (nothing to do with the words or it's meaning, I prefer more upbeat dance music) I have to defend myself by telling you that someone rather drunk person was using my computer and posted the insult above and I know he didn't really mean it because his girlfriend is from Cork.
Sorry about that.
teetotal33 3 years ago
Don't really understand the comments about Aussies being Brit criminals.....haven't you listened to the lyrics? Actually the majority of Aussies are descendants from Irish people who were deemed to be criminals by the English,later followed up by English criminals who were sent there.
ramona68 3 years ago
Go raibh mile maith agat
nissanalmera01 3 years ago
I vow from this time forward NEVER to make another comment on youtube due to the abusive eejits who think they are the kings shit and call everyone down when they make a mistake ..his is so not fucking worth it ..and colummcclelland90 go shite up a stick...
barmbrackthecat 3 years ago
haha whatever. your post was away off Australian, Irish... theres no comparasion whatsoever
colummcclelland90 3 years ago
no such tings as australians, they were all brithish criminals.....now suck that boy
martyrochey 3 years ago
paddys awesome at this
dangledoop 3 years ago
this is one of my favorite songs of all time, hands down. st. john was a talented poet.
Kendalloo 3 years ago
brilliant man. we got some good songs here in kernow about battling the english too
muddymullet 3 years ago
its a great song that binds the Irish and teh heritage
1970sullivang 3 years ago
Great song, Paddy Reillys a true legend
Xallyman 3 years ago
wonderful comment on a draconian oligacharchy has it canged? No ther still a bunch of of inerbred english shits
williamgerard1958 3 years ago
Go chris alexander
jupiterinfurs 3 years ago
great song . my old uncle (paddy)r.i.p used to say... their's more fecking songs written about ireland you'ed think its was the only fecking country in the world. to which my father would reply.. "god bless you ireland and the old bog road... go on paddy sing us a song. happy memories!
declan1961 3 years ago 4
~ irish and proud ~
theblop 4 years ago 6
A song is a song. fucking pisses me off when people make it about the divide between cath's and prod's. This is prolly one of the greatest songs ever written and fucking idots have to smear it with politics. FUCK OFF
chrisalexander21 4 years ago
I was agreeing with you chris, keep the politics out, everybodys had some shit at one time or another, nobody has the sole right for sympathy and the world would be a better place without religion and the one-up-man-ship most of its followers try to get. Surely this song is about the sadness brought on a family by being deported for petty crime? The Lancashire folk songs I mention are taken and enjoyed in their original context and "Ther reyt fettling tackle" as we say up here
walshy2866 4 years ago
Seriously lads, yas are English, of course you want to keep the politics out of a song about our fellers fighting against yours. It's a rebel song like the lad below says, how in the fuck can you keep the 'politics out' of it?
roddyjojo 3 years ago
This song is a rebel song, against the english, so how can it not be political.
One of the nicest songs in the world, and it is a political song, whether you like it or not.
andyhello23 3 years ago 5
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CELTIC FC do not play rebel songs in there stadium.
macnakamura 3 years ago
You might be surprised, sweetheart
kemeniel 3 years ago
I hear ya! We can only do our part by accepting and showing a loving hand or simple gesture towards humanity( yep,we're all the same in that lable).I pray it's making a difference. Idiotic and pointless hate will destroy us.inevitable!.These songs were born of pain,unspeakable sorrow,and insight,in hopes to make a change for the better.
MandyMayzy 3 years ago 2
This is a song about the famine - and it's Malthusian use to allow as many Irish people die as possible. It is also about transportation (when the English made use of convict slave labour in their empire) - if that's not political i know not what is, it's also about love/loss of country and loss of familly.
ferrrtojin73 3 years ago
Good historical song(and I'm English)but spoilt by the political,kick the Brits messages.
The landlord situation happened here.Working class Lancashire where I'm from is a far cry from chocolate box England everybody envisages&its people were cruelly exploited by landowners/mine owners/mill owners who ran the MP's.Plenty of songs about cotton,coal&its hardships.There always has been&always will be "Them who has and them who hasn't" but we didn't have MP's to protect a minority like some did!
walshy2866 4 years ago
Great comment mate i'm Irish it's a fucking disgrace what people are saying on here both irish and english what has happened, happened can't change history.
PA3456 2 years ago
It sure is
marena80 2 years ago
Top version of a fine tune
friendsofireland 4 years ago
Please take the time to view my slide show of the Irish Famine Memorial that was recently dedicated in Providence, Rhode Island USA. It was just by chance that I found Paddy Reilly's version of "Fields of Anthenry" to use as background music. Search Bobping3. Thanks...Bob
Bobping3 4 years ago
nothing quite gets the english going like singing this song at full pelt on the top floor of a bulgarian hotel inhabited mostly be english and sung by a scotsman in a kilt - ha ha !!!
theqspark 4 years ago 2
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Victims from birth til death.
BlueRanger1971 4 years ago
Beautiful dark song.
Ireland one day will be one....
PADDYDAYS 4 years ago
I love very much this song, and I would like have the entire writing of. Let me know how
seacross62 4 years ago
it was written by an australian called Pete St John
barmbrackthecat 3 years ago
what shit are you talking, Pete St John is Irish you Muppet... let me guess... yup an american that knows fuk all
colummcclelland90 3 years ago 3
OK I made a big fucking mistake (american me)??? fucking hardly boy you couldnt win a contest if you tried I am NO American..
barmbrackthecat 3 years ago
it was violence and murder unfortunately that took to get the brits out, talking did'nt work, after 700 years this was the only option. M.
vot324 4 years ago
the sad truth
kgog123 4 years ago 2
I love this song
wallnutwhip 4 years ago
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SCUM SCUM SCUM
WeAreThePeopleFGAU 4 years ago
fuck off you fucking wanker paddy is a legend
kgog123 4 years ago
fuck off you fucking wanker paddy is a legend
kgog123 4 years ago
Oh come on, guys. There is no need to fight.
Even I, as a german, love this song and don't think of it as an offence to anyone.
Duriuskhorga 4 years ago
Opinion polls normaly say whatever the people who commisioned them paid for them to say thats normal..... 5.2 million died in the systematic starvation of a nation. 1845 - 1850 We learn and move on.. the blame game is for fools.. shit...no other song gets my throat like this one!
jamesbt20 4 years ago
people stop fighting, this is an amazing song which everyone can enjoy
emclme 4 years ago
away i have been taken for the last 30 years on the 2nd of january, too aunty Marys this is for you but the memories remain mine!!
clachtoll 4 years ago
tumalty,--I surrender. How could anyone interpret the lyrics"against the famine and the CROWN,I rebelled ,they ran me down"as being political.
dph1943 4 years ago
Why are people getting all political with their responses to this song. It has nothing to do with politics. Its about someone being deported to Australia after he was caught steeling during the potatoe famin No politics involved
tumalty1980 4 years ago
because politics, both Irish and English, exacerbated the problems caused by the famine. The Famine could have been absorbed by our population, but the near slavery of English land-owner's, combined with an arm's legnth approach but Irish Upper class, only servered to prmotoe emigration and hardship. Fields of Anthenrye is not directly a politcal statement as The Dubliners were always a strictly neutral bunch.
blakeatwork 4 years ago
You are evidently neither Irish or no nothing of Irish history. The man was trying to keep his family from starving while food was being exported to England.
dph1943 4 years ago
Look at my surname my family are from Cork
tumalty1980 4 years ago