The Bonny Bunch of Roses

[clareman21]

Janey Mick where did you get this one. Beautiful whar part of the Banner is the man from?

[MrTonyBomber]

Refreshingly different to the usual UK version.

[flatus69]

I like this,I also like the Oysterband's version.

[catmelodeon]

Lovely singing.

At first I thought he was faking on that guitar, but i think he doesn't: It is tuned in some open tuning in the key of Bb, and he backs up very effectively with 1 thumb on the right and 1 finger on the left! Well done. thanks for posting!

[crf250chris]

god bless all the great men...and women who have pasted gone but not forgotten....

[petrfiddle]

wonderful, I could listen to that over and over.

thanks for putting that up.

Peter.

[MrDavidLJohnston]

@petrfiddle thanks for letting me in on this wonderful, i agree, peace.

[pvuf431]

"Of England, Scotland, and Ireland, The unity can ne'er be broke" - yeah this song is really pro irish independance

Fool

[cloneoffred]

@pvuf431

It could have been worse.Ireland could have been France's puppet

[Lisnageeragh]

Fine singing ...often the best are not famous! Al O'Donnell used to sing thi song in the sixties ...I don't know if he ever recorded it.

[swensone]

Superb, natural, simple singing and perfectly in tune. There is much to admire in this performance. Did Colm Walsh make other recordings?

[clarebannerman]

@swensone I don't think so. If you do a you tube search for clip "interview with Colm Walsh" .........you'll see a different Colm 40 odd years later.

[Lisnageeragh]

@swensone there isso much to admire indeed in a intune and tuneful rendition ...much of this musicality is or has been lost from what was then part of the tradition.

[leftclog1]

what a voice brilliant thanks for posting this enjoyable xxx

[elecman7]

irish7

[muisire]

Brilliantly rich and evocative singing by one of whom I know nothing -it is so, so easy, to miss the many splendoured things.

Many thanks for posting so great a song so grandly sung

[joeygsmom]

great voice hes got!

[lockey1966]

Wow! Loved that . I have been away from Ireland for quite a long time but I never get tired of listening to music like this, thank you for posting.

[ShortsGardens]

Great trad song

[MILdoeswork]

Sorry. To Bannerman, got the message, no worries this end. Apologies for atributing posting to other forum user. Keep up the CLASS postings. My neighbour moved 6 miles up from Chrusheen & is considered a BLOW - IN, strange world. Keep up the fine postings.

[MILdoeswork]

English accent, Irish parents. So pure Irish blood, so what am i, now that i have moved to Ireland. So Bollock's to all that.

Thank you for a brilliant posting, more please if available. Leave the politics out for a while & thank Macangusagain for superb posting.

[thebooby1]

great tune

[Macangusagain]

and a heartfelt thank you to Colm Walsh as well , Albainn gu Brath

[Macangusagain]

The world of music was done a great disservice when Colm Walsh chose a career in business instead of song. He would have been great in music as well, what a pitch perfect set of pipes he has, a gloriously talented singer. I heard by email today he was back to his home in County Clare singing & playing accordion a few weeks back, wish I 'd been there! That said, I'll settle for listening to this lovely post again, though I always thought it a Scottish air, not Irish. :-) thank you ClareBannerman

[raymondcrooke]

What a great voice this man has!

[DCOT87]

best singer iv ever listend to``

[bilstew]

This is a very historic song and relates to the hope that Napoleon Bonaparte would defeat England with his army and hence Ireland would be free of English Rule .I often wonder if this HAD come about would Ireland then have become a colony of France?

[joanabanyeres]

Hisotria molt interressant. l, still think that Warerloo was a great SORRY,  for the ideas of Bonaparte for europa Bonae.

[abdultom]

yeah yeah, europe was much better when it was run by all napoleon's cousins for personal gain, and he ruled in the middle as a despotic emperor.

[joanabanyeres]

No, Napy did not have the right persons for his ideas. He just became another dictator, so many deaths, French and Europeans, also for the guilt of the monarchies, they were all the same family, and Napy did the same,

l think that we have lost time for being more instructed and with more culture. He had lost the meaning of the real Res Publica. Humanity had lost time. , well it's gone...and you are right abdultom.

[Barry8065]

Perhaps, but better that than being a colony of the brutal English

[bilstew]

Who can tell? The cruelty of Belgian colonialism in the Congo was widely exposed by the Irish patriot Roger Casement.Why should the French colonialists have been any less brutal than others?

[Barry8065]

The French would have been welcomed in Ireland as liberators. As co-religionists they didn't have a hatred of catholics as the English had and we have no reason to assume that they would not have accepted home rule in Ireland by a friendly republican government

[bilstew]

Religion was the excuse for many divisive things.The treatment of the Protestant Hugenots in France was despicable. Politics motivated the invasion of Ireland. The fact that the irish were mainly Catholic made little difference.The idea of invading Ireland was for strategic reasons to prevent Ireland being used as a springboard by Continental armies to destroy England.The Marxist historian T.A.Jackson clarifies this very well in his book "Ireland her own" Catholics fought  against Napoleon.

[Barry8065]

The fact that the Irish people were catholic made every difference. The English were not willing to allow Ireland to be an independant Catholic nation friendly to the catholic nations of Europe with whom they were constantly at war. Hence the protestant plantation of Ireland which only succeeded in Ulster and the centuries of oppression that followed. Besides, the Huguenots who had been treated so badly in France were afforded full civil rights by the post revolutionary government.

[frankleroux]

Very nice!

[KaroKaraokeCountry]

Ses vrai Frank tres belle chanson merci du partage bravo clareban:))xx 1000*****

[fiddlebridge]

Superb, any more of the same please?

[broncose1]

This is so beautiful,peaceful to listen to. Thank you so much for sharing.5*****s

Shirley

[presterjon]

i,ve waited years to hear this song which i learned from my mother back in the forties. well done clare..........

[irishvideos]

This guy is a natural on screen, great voice!

[cuchaia]

yes, this man's voice surpassed in beauty any song he may have sung; thanks for the posting

[MaireMc]

This is absolutely wonderful. I love it. Thanks.

[deargciarog]

A Digital Trad site showed this additional lyric-

"O mother, dearest mother,

Now I lie on my dying bed.

If I lived I might have been clever,

But now I rest my youthful head.

And when our bones lie mouldering

And weeping willows o'er us do grow,

The deeds of brave Napoleon

Shall conquer the Bonnie Bunch of Roses-O."

[joanabanyeres]

Beautiful poetry

[mongorich]

sweet.

[headstocktailstock]

Bannerman never fails-brilliant!!!!

[WhiteTiger333]

My goodness, but what a beautiful voice on that man! And a great capture of it on the recording equipment. Thank you for the history of it. So interesting to learn of that connection.

[diesundas]

Thank you very much for this, and the interesting information. Five stars, of course.

[fiddle4u]

This man has some voice- I heard, song sung

many years ago Traditional in Crosskeys Pub

Co, Antrim- Great to hear in sung again..

jim,,

[madfortrad5958]

very nice thanks

[nosowisewoman]

hey i was gonna say that!!  :)

[sheilamaclean]

What a lovely voice, clear as a bell and effortless, never heard the song before but glad you took the time to educate us on it, a fascinating story and a look back in history.

Well done the singing and the telling.

[deargciarog]

Woof!

I rarely bark, but this was a great tune. Lord knows how you come by it.

Thanks

[killiekentman]

great tune. good to hear the old stuff. when music was music. 5 stars.

[MaggieHiggins]

Beautiful ballad.

[MacConchradha01]

thanks bannerman that a great clip