I'm a Englishman that is proud to be English because of (most) of my countrymen. I wish I could be proud about some of our history, where our government/monarchs have persecuted great people such as the Irish, Indian, African, Australasian, etc for nothing more than wealth. The real people of Ireland and Britain hold so much in common and I think this song can be used to learn from both of our nations mistakes against each other! Sad but beautiful song that shows how amazing the Irish are!
London Irish RFC play this before every home game and also use it as a anthem it will forever make my hair stand on end when 1000's of people sing it at once
@rlvilla when ? and the i.r.a. freedom fighters have already apologized for all civi deaths , have your brit gov done the same for all the shoot 2 kill policy deaths in my country ? :( or have your protestant murder squads said sorry for killing innocent catholics here in the north bit of ireland ? :( the i.r.a. freedom fighters only existed bcause we needed them 2 exist :0 2 get our freedom and some kind of equal rights :) they did what they had 2 do :) and the rest is history :) ira
@rlvilla Yea, well the Dubliners didn't..... your stupidity is almost awkwardly uncomfortable.... but mainly just a mechanism to display your half-wittedness (if it isn't a word, it should be...)
I grew up in Ireland, learnt this song in school. Still love it. Pete St. John (the song author) depicted the destitute precisely- no food, no job, emigration, being sent to prison for fighting your own survival. Fair play to the Irish people! With such a sad history, we still manage to have a 'grand' attitude to life! In Ireland, everything is grand!
C'est quoi ces histoires d'irlandais à Liverpool ? et de paroles changées par des supporters ? En tant que français j'y comprends rien. Il doit me manquer des éléments...
@TheGrosetGras... Ce concert a été à Dublin. L'auditoire sont nationalistes irlandais et ils crient soutien pour l'Armée républicaine irlandaise (IRA) et le Sinn Fein. Le Sinn Fein est un parti politique qui souhaite une Irlande unie. Ce concert n'a rien à voir avec le Liverpool.
@TheGrosetGras... Séparer complètement de ce, il y a beaucoup de gens d'ascendance irlandaise à Liverpool, parce que Liverpool a été/est un important port et proche de l'Irlande. Certains Liverpool supporters de football chanter cette chanson à changé mots.
This song is also known to Koreans, since Cha Duri and Ki Sungyong is the members of Celtic FC. Though there are many artists who sung this song, I think that this version is the best one. I hope both Ireland and Korea to flourish, since both of them have many things in common. May God bless Ireland and Korea!
I live in South Korea. Both our country and Ireland was ruled by foreigners for many years. Ireland was ruled by England for 800 years, and Korea was the colony of Japan for 35 years. Sadly, pro-Japanese people still have their vested rights in political, economical, and social fields, and this makes a lot of social problems. This makes me love Irish music. When I hear this song, I cannot help being so angry-about both England and Japan. Anyway, this is very, very nice song.
I am a staunch Scot very patriotic. Not into football at all butI totally agree with Randomidiotic. People are missing the point here. This song is about a tragic event in Irish history. I dont really care if you are northern or southern ireland I like all irish and as a scot I really think we have a true bond
Just out of curiousity, what are the lyric changes that they chant?? If someone would message me that it would be great. never heard any version other than the Dropkick Murphy's rock spin.
Why do the people sing Sinn Féin and IRA beetwen the chorus? Pardon my ignorance, im from brazil and love irish culture, but i think that´s a litlle polemic.. i dont know. this is a great song and it maybe that can cause some misunderstanding... i just want to hear the opinion of you guys abou that.... cheers!
@PellgaBR... This song deals with “The Famine” in Ireland (1845-1855) and its aftermath. It’s Sinn Fein/IRA supporters who are chanting. Their purpose is to establish the fact that it was British policy in Ireland that exacerbated The Famine. There is a war of words going on between Unionists and Republicans over the future of Northern Ireland. So you are quite right, it is polemic. If you really want to understand you should read “The Great Hunger” by Cecil Woodham Smith.
There is still a conflict for the union of Northern Ireland? i thought IRA had puted the weapons down a few years ago.... and wikipedia says Sinn Fein is left wing party.. i always tought they were like a right nationalist radical movement suporting IRA.....
and thx for the reply and the typ of the book, i will surely read it someday!
@PellgaBR... Sinn Fein is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The IRA agreed to lay down their weapons in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and actually did lay them down in 2004. Sinn Fein is committed to achieving a united independent Ireland of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and they are making political gains in both parts of Ireland. The fighting may be over, but the conflict will not be over until there is a united Ireland.
Oh now i understand it better, thakns for the brief explanation...
I think you are right, until there is a catholic population on northern ireland the fight will always be present. However i think this will be very hard after so many years of the war of independece...
@PellgaBR... It’s 90 years since Ireland was divided into two states in 1922. Sinn Fein hopes to persuade the Unionists in Northern Ireland to agree to the re-unification of Ireland. We know that the Unionists are honest, hard working people with a lot to contribute and we hope that they will come to see that their best future is in a united Ireland. At present, they are nervous of leaving the security of the United Kingdom, but if the UK breaks apart…?
Liverpool fans may indeed sing it as an anthem, as johnfoconnor states below. But where I live, whenever there is a football match, the police come in riot gear and separate the fans into small groups of about 50 and march them to the railway station, with the fans shouting and jeering obscenely. Do we want people like that using this Famine song as an anthem?
I would not be familiar with the song being used as a "football chant". I think that it is used more as an anthem.Would I be hurt if it was a chant? Not really, because it is a nice melody.
Do I think that it disrepects history to have it sung at football matches? No.
It is such a nice song that it already gained wings and will be adapted to suit more occasions.
This is my mums favourite song and mine too .Brings home the injustices of the time, may god forgive the the people responsible because i cant . but i do thank god for the Dubliners.
This is just a fact song .... sad, so very sad for whatever political reasons a lot o' folks died who did not have to die at that time or for that reason, Although, due to Adam, we must all one day die .... for now. Just good, purty work!
Trevelyan, just for you all to know was the Treasurer of Great Britain. He is quoted to have said "We must not complain of what we really want to obtain." when an eyewitness of the shiploads of food being taken away suggested that they stay to help let the Irish live. The Potato Blight was not a famine of nature, it was a entirely intentional genocide. Never would one call the Holocaust "The Jewish Oxygen-Famine". Don't allow these lies and bullshit to go unchecked.
@Factnotfictionpeople we do it justice, ever been to anfield when it's sung? I guess not, before you judge go listen then you'll understand, it's magical.
The best compliment I can pay to this song is that I used it as a lullaby for my daughter and continue to use it when nights are long for her. Regardless of what the individual adds to the song,... such a lovely work.
Outside the Shankly gates, I heard a Kopite calling, Shankly they have taken you away, but you left a great eleven. before you went to heaven, now's it's glory round the fields of Anfield road. LET THEM SING, nothing political at all about that.
Oooh, I love the bit where the whole (huge ^_^) audience joins in. Very nice. (Obviously I'm not the only one who loves the chorus of this. ^__^ Nice audience enthusiasm!)
@robdoubler1 Silly question pal,but if youre not happy being a "Brit republican"why dont you just be an irish republican and pay your taxes in ireland,if you dont like her Maj why not go back to Ireland??
How is the Queen a tyrant? What century are you living in? She's hardly sending the Redcoats over now is she? I rarely comment, but yours is one of those comments that just perplex me...
@AndreasSU in the info box...I think it's both...and thank you for offering it to us as both. ^__^
To anyone/everyone: I just realized that what this song REALLY reminds ME of is my favorite annual Scottish-Irish Festival in Colorado...and also of love, freedom, and Ireland (where I've never been but I "remember" it anyway in a manner of speaking). Guess this song can remind us of whatever we want. Anyway I'd almost forgotten when I last heard this song...but now I can hear my memories again.)
Wow, listening to this really makes me think back to when me and my Dad got along, every weekend when we went out, we always used to listen to the dubliners, I realise he'll never see this but I'm sorry for fucking things up, I regret it everyday.
people moaning about liverpudlians using an irish tune? honestly, you couldnt make it up.
thats like moaning about people from quebec using a french tune or south african boers using a dutch tune.
and the idea that people from liverpool would disrespect the victims of the potato famine is absolutely nuts, those famine victims are our ancestors, we in liverpool know for an absolute fact that our ancestors were affected by the famine because they came here, this is our song as much as anyones.
@poetsdontknowit and TheKilkennyhurler: I'm so glad someone thought to mention that. Well said. (I'm American and lots of us in America are Irish or partly Irish too. ^_^)
(Hmmm. Doesn't there always seem to be someone moaning about something or other...whether there's any need to or not. ^_~)
@poetsdontknowit... As you rightly say, one of the reasons for so many Irish in Liverpool is because of the Famine. To escape the Famine they first had to sail to Liverpool and then on to the USA or Australia. Many of them, arriving in Liverpool, found they had been scammed, their onward ticket wasn’t valid. So, with no money, they couldn’t go forward or back. They were stuck in Liverpool, destitute.
@patrickspoint mate, in the late 1800`s there was only dublin and cork that had more irish born catholics living there than liverpool, there were more irish catholics living in liverpool than even belfast.
liverpool is the only city on the mainland to elect an irish nationalist MP and it is the birthplace of an irish national hero - james larkin.
even the name `scouser` was given to the irish by scandanavian seamen working out of liverpool ( lobskause = scandanavian version of irish stew)
So what if Liverpool sing an adapted version of it as a football song?
Nearly all football chants/songs originated as other pieces of music, with the words simply changed about their local team. Liverpool fans can use the tune for a song of their own, what does it matter if their English, Irish or from Outer Mongolia? I'm sure most NUFC chants can be deconstructed to their original songs, that doesn't mean that it should have any bearing on whether Newcastle fans are 'allowed' to sing them...
@randomidiotic... I think people are missing the point here; it’s not whether Liverpool fans be “allowed” to sing the song to changed words. Of course they’re “allowed”. The point is: this song is about a tragic event in a whole series of tragedies in Irish history. I think that people should have more respect for the sentiments expressed in the song and not demean it by using it as a football chant
I don't care if it's considered a rebell song or not it's a great song... and back then there really was a lot of poverty and stuff its just a look into the past and the fammin.
I'm 15 now living in Holland. I really love Ireland so much more than my country, when I'm 20 or so what, I'm going to go Ireland and maybe stay there for the rest of my life.
i'm english, and I love ireland, i think the irish are a great people that have a lot in common with the english. i just wish that our two great countries could grow up and be proud to call each other friends.
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. - William E. Gladstone
kenny1540- more irish moved to liverpool during the famine than anywhere else in uk. in the late 1800`s liverpool had more irish born catholics living there than even belfast,only cork and dublin had more.
the term `scouser` and the scouse accent is down to the irish influence in the city.
it`s the only city in mainland britain to elect an irish nationalist MP and it is the birthplace of an irish national hero james larkin.
liverpool knows all about the famine mate, it`s in the cities DNA
Why do Liverpool football fans take someone elses song and bastardise the lyrics of a very beautiful and meaningful song. This is not the first time they've done it; they took "You'll Never Walk Alone". They should find their own song.
@patrickspoint Who did they take you'll never walk alone off ? bulshit mate thats Liverpools song and other clubs such as Celtic and Borrusia Dortmund decided to sing it aswell. The band Gerry & The Pacemakers are from Liverpool and the Liverpool fans started singing this while it was in the charts in 63 along with other songs like The Beatles 'Hey Jude' and this is how it became their song.
@ThaGrimReefah34... Gerry and the Pacemakers’ version was a cover of the song from the 1945 musical, “Carousel” by Rogers and Hammerstein. In the musical it was sung to comfort a woman after her husband kills himself. Carousel is an American musical and has no connection to Liverpool.
the british scum in the north once took my dad away , to crumlin road jail for taking a farmers chicken to feed his family in the early 60s :( omg travellers where treated bad :9 and i suppose they still are :( but 1day the irish will all be free :) and travelling gypsys can roam all of ireland free as a bird :) without the threat of northern irish brit supporting protestants picking on us :) 1day my family will be free in the whole of ireland :)
this is a song, not a rebel song or watever, im irish thru and thru, this song is a national treasure and the man who wrote it also is, what this song is about is pride, for all those people who died and suffered on coffin ships and other tings, its a reminder of our hard times and the irish mentality of never giving up, for the love of one's country is the most important ting, above all else
I'm sorry, and this is gonna sound so stupid, but my speakers are ridiculously shite. What's that they're chanting in the chorus? I know. I'm a gobshite whatever, but could someone help me out? And maybe buy me new speakers for christmas?! :)
If you are Irish or Scots/Irish a song with true Factual/Historical/Emotional meaning.It is not anti English but may be considered correctly anti British.
@boneyboyco Folk music was the way in which the lower classes made their stories remembered. Seeing that often they were illiterate, this was the only way in which their memories could be passed down. Much better way I think!
@TimmyHowles This song is written about the famine and forced emigration but it was written in the 1970's and first recorded in 1979. It is a modern song. (Someone pointed that out to me on one of my comments. I checked it out. I thought it was an older folk song also.) My best, Moppet
TheJay9002, below, makes the point that there is a huge population in Liverpool of Irish decent. He is quite right and the reason can be traced to the Famine. I just wish he had made his point with descending into the gutter with his last sentence. I’m sure he wouldn’t say that to kenny1540’s face.
This is my second try-think the last one censored,but why?,just want to say that this song helped keep me sane and alive-4 years in HMP for a crime I did not commit,went to bed with these words in my head every night-if you ever face the same remember this,it will help,injustice is unfortunately a common thing-God forbid you could be next!
@justchris48 Bless you, and save you from such misfortune in future. You are right, though. It is so much more common than most people think.... Very sad.
@kenny1540 There was huge Irish immigration to Liverpool. Thus the cultural heritage of these people became integrated in the culture of Liverpool and became part of a shared identity, finding expression in this case in the form of song. But that would have been obvious to anyone whos not a fucking spastic.
@kenny1540 please remember that many celtic fans use You'll never walk alone as their song. This may have been reciprocated by Liverpool fans. Do not begin a debate into 'our song against your song' because my friend you would lose!
@kenny1540 Course it does, alot the lyrics have been altered so that it makes sense and the rendition we sing has nothing to do with the potato famine. we just use the tune and a few verses.
'All round the fields of Anfield road, where once we watched the king Kenny play. Stevie Highway on the wing, we had dreams and songs to sing, bout the glory round the fields of Anfield road' You're think and slow if you don't know how that makes sense.
@ThaGrimReefah34 this song/story is about a man from Athenry Co. Galway who was sentenced to transportation to Australia for stealing corn from an English owned farm to feed his starving family. Ireland was part of the UK in which Irish Catholics where prohibited from owning land,voting,obtaining education,having a profession and from doing many other things to prosper and succeed in life. as an Irish man i find it disrespectful and ignorant that Liverpool an English soccer team bastardize it.
@kenny1540 are you on the gear you, liverpool fc version doesn't have one single word the same and is all about Liverpool, just happens to be sung to the same tune!
I'm a Englishman that is proud to be English because of (most) of my countrymen. I wish I could be proud about some of our history, where our government/monarchs have persecuted great people such as the Irish, Indian, African, Australasian, etc for nothing more than wealth. The real people of Ireland and Britain hold so much in common and I think this song can be used to learn from both of our nations mistakes against each other! Sad but beautiful song that shows how amazing the Irish are!
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London Irish RFC play this before every home game and also use it as a anthem it will forever make my hair stand on end when 1000's of people sing it at once
adamastar84 2 days ago
tiocfaidh ár lá
S1NE4D 5 days ago
Jim McCann at 1:10
YoshiIguana698 6 days ago
what a great song about love and freedom lets bin the bad of the past nd embrace the peace
MrMarv61 1 week ago 2
Le in my home city of Birmingham, some of them first and second generation Irish. The others just normal youngters out for a night on pay day.
rlvilla 1 week ago
Just a thought, the IRA murdered 21innocent peop
rlvilla 1 week ago
@rlvilla when ? and the i.r.a. freedom fighters have already apologized for all civi deaths , have your brit gov done the same for all the shoot 2 kill policy deaths in my country ? :( or have your protestant murder squads said sorry for killing innocent catholics here in the north bit of ireland ? :( the i.r.a. freedom fighters only existed bcause we needed them 2 exist :0 2 get our freedom and some kind of equal rights :) they did what they had 2 do :) and the rest is history :) ira
TheGlenmanusskinhead 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
@TheGlenmanusskinhead ira "freedom fighters"-bollocks,murdering scum you fuckwit
telboyirish 1 day ago
@rlvilla Yea, well the Dubliners didn't..... your stupidity is almost awkwardly uncomfortable.... but mainly just a mechanism to display your half-wittedness (if it isn't a word, it should be...)
S1NE4D 5 days ago
@S1NE4D pot kettle black springs to mind,arse
telboyirish 1 day ago
Gonn yersel Paddy!!
67jkerr 1 week ago
bring back many nice memories..
MegaAxel300 1 week ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Dubliners
Who is the one singing. great voice
TNWoodwright1 2 weeks ago in playlist dubliners
@TNWoodwright1 Paddy Reilly is singing lead vocal on this great song.
kevcar08 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
I can't listen to this song without bursting into tears. Proud to be Irish
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JohNNyBcOoL17 2 weeks ago
proud to be irish :'(
IRISHSNIPEREW 2 weeks ago
I grew up in Ireland, learnt this song in school. Still love it. Pete St. John (the song author) depicted the destitute precisely- no food, no job, emigration, being sent to prison for fighting your own survival. Fair play to the Irish people! With such a sad history, we still manage to have a 'grand' attitude to life! In Ireland, everything is grand!
ichoiichoi 2 weeks ago
potato blight + british taking what was left = famine for the Irish and my father's family coming to America
eire13tigger 2 weeks ago
C'est quoi ces histoires d'irlandais à Liverpool ? et de paroles changées par des supporters ? En tant que français j'y comprends rien. Il doit me manquer des éléments...
TheGrosetGras 3 weeks ago in playlist YouTube-mix med The Dubliners
@TheGrosetGras... Ce concert a été à Dublin. L'auditoire sont nationalistes irlandais et ils crient soutien pour l'Armée républicaine irlandaise (IRA) et le Sinn Fein. Le Sinn Fein est un parti politique qui souhaite une Irlande unie. Ce concert n'a rien à voir avec le Liverpool.
patrickspoint 3 weeks ago
@TheGrosetGras... Séparer complètement de ce, il y a beaucoup de gens d'ascendance irlandaise à Liverpool, parce que Liverpool a été/est un important port et proche de l'Irlande. Certains Liverpool supporters de football chanter cette chanson à changé mots.
patrickspoint 3 weeks ago
@patrickspoint OK Thank you Patrick.
TheGrosetGras 3 weeks ago
Lovely song, depressing but still nice
fogell14 3 weeks ago
This song is also known to Koreans, since Cha Duri and Ki Sungyong is the members of Celtic FC. Though there are many artists who sung this song, I think that this version is the best one. I hope both Ireland and Korea to flourish, since both of them have many things in common. May God bless Ireland and Korea!
lawrence191931 3 weeks ago 7
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I live in South Korea. Both our country and Ireland was ruled by foreigners for many years. Ireland was ruled by England for 800 years, and Korea was the colony of Japan for 35 years. Sadly, pro-Japanese people still have their vested rights in political, economical, and social fields, and this makes a lot of social problems. This makes me love Irish music. When I hear this song, I cannot help being so angry-about both England and Japan. Anyway, this is very, very nice song.
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lawrence191931 3 weeks ago
I am a staunch Scot very patriotic. Not into football at all butI totally agree with Randomidiotic. People are missing the point here. This song is about a tragic event in Irish history. I dont really care if you are northern or southern ireland I like all irish and as a scot I really think we have a true bond
MsMarydoll70 3 weeks ago
@MsMarydoll70... If you look again you will see that it was me who made the point you agreed with. randomidiotic has the opposite view.
patrickspoint 3 weeks ago
Just out of curiousity, what are the lyric changes that they chant?? If someone would message me that it would be great. never heard any version other than the Dropkick Murphy's rock spin.
onehaastylemarine 3 weeks ago
@onehaastylemarine ''hey baby let the free birds fly, sinn fein, IRA''
christoir246 2 weeks ago
she watched the last star falling........
:(
jmscarp1234 3 weeks ago
Why do the people sing Sinn Féin and IRA beetwen the chorus? Pardon my ignorance, im from brazil and love irish culture, but i think that´s a litlle polemic.. i dont know. this is a great song and it maybe that can cause some misunderstanding... i just want to hear the opinion of you guys abou that.... cheers!
PellgaBR 3 weeks ago
@PellgaBR... This song deals with “The Famine” in Ireland (1845-1855) and its aftermath. It’s Sinn Fein/IRA supporters who are chanting. Their purpose is to establish the fact that it was British policy in Ireland that exacerbated The Famine. There is a war of words going on between Unionists and Republicans over the future of Northern Ireland. So you are quite right, it is polemic. If you really want to understand you should read “The Great Hunger” by Cecil Woodham Smith.
patrickspoint 3 weeks ago 5
@patrickspoint Thx
There is still a conflict for the union of Northern Ireland? i thought IRA had puted the weapons down a few years ago.... and wikipedia says Sinn Fein is left wing party.. i always tought they were like a right nationalist radical movement suporting IRA.....
and thx for the reply and the typ of the book, i will surely read it someday!
PellgaBR 3 weeks ago
@PellgaBR... Sinn Fein is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The IRA agreed to lay down their weapons in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and actually did lay them down in 2004. Sinn Fein is committed to achieving a united independent Ireland of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and they are making political gains in both parts of Ireland. The fighting may be over, but the conflict will not be over until there is a united Ireland.
patrickspoint 3 weeks ago 9
@patrickspoint
Oh now i understand it better, thakns for the brief explanation...
I think you are right, until there is a catholic population on northern ireland the fight will always be present. However i think this will be very hard after so many years of the war of independece...
PellgaBR 3 weeks ago
@PellgaBR... It’s 90 years since Ireland was divided into two states in 1922. Sinn Fein hopes to persuade the Unionists in Northern Ireland to agree to the re-unification of Ireland. We know that the Unionists are honest, hard working people with a lot to contribute and we hope that they will come to see that their best future is in a united Ireland. At present, they are nervous of leaving the security of the United Kingdom, but if the UK breaks apart…?
patrickspoint 3 weeks ago 10
Liverpool fans may indeed sing it as an anthem, as johnfoconnor states below. But where I live, whenever there is a football match, the police come in riot gear and separate the fans into small groups of about 50 and march them to the railway station, with the fans shouting and jeering obscenely. Do we want people like that using this Famine song as an anthem?
patrickspoint 4 weeks ago 26
@patrickspoint Thank you.
Klimseven 1 week ago
beautiful song,by a rangers fan
sonical53 4 weeks ago
I would not be familiar with the song being used as a "football chant". I think that it is used more as an anthem.Would I be hurt if it was a chant? Not really, because it is a nice melody.
Do I think that it disrepects history to have it sung at football matches? No.
It is such a nice song that it already gained wings and will be adapted to suit more occasions.
I will hum it away tonight and tomorrow.
johnfoconnor 1 month ago
Man, I am just a plastic paddy here in America, but I get chills and bit teary eyed listening to this. Erin Go Bragh, my cousins.
Imac619 1 month ago
BEATIFUL SONG even more beautiful wen u hear 40,000 CELTIC FANS SINGIN IT
baconthebyrne 1 month ago
just a great song
dangerousdave961 1 month ago
@AndreasSU just a beautiful Irish ballad (for peacekeeping :) )
Jerseylespaul 1 month ago
if a song makes the old hairs stand up, then you know your soul has been touched, here say I
bonzo228 1 month ago 2
This is my mums favourite song and mine too .Brings home the injustices of the time, may god forgive the the people responsible because i cant . but i do thank god for the Dubliners.
SmodgeTemptations 1 month ago
This is just a fact song .... sad, so very sad for whatever political reasons a lot o' folks died who did not have to die at that time or for that reason, Although, due to Adam, we must all one day die .... for now. Just good, purty work!
xAZpuncher 1 month ago
miss ronnie so much!
x123Scandalx 1 month ago
i love this song i have it myself and love listening to it
diamondl1l 1 month ago
,this is a fantastic song with fantastic lyrics,wherever you go in ireland you will hear this song sung.
irisheyes291 2 months ago
im fecking proud to be irish wa hay
chris28031986 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Dubliners
@chris28031986 And I to be English! Good for you! :-)
Factnotfictionpeople 2 months ago 2
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there is amnesty to those who committed terrorism before Good Friday agreement
justicepartyuk 2 months ago
erin go bragh ..
SuperIrishhunk 2 months ago
Trevelyan, just for you all to know was the Treasurer of Great Britain. He is quoted to have said "We must not complain of what we really want to obtain." when an eyewitness of the shiploads of food being taken away suggested that they stay to help let the Irish live. The Potato Blight was not a famine of nature, it was a entirely intentional genocide. Never would one call the Holocaust "The Jewish Oxygen-Famine". Don't allow these lies and bullshit to go unchecked.
TheAmericanNative 2 months ago 4
fuck liverpool anyway... Celtic all the way
ACDC920605 2 months ago
All round the fields of Anfield Road
Where once we watched the King Kenny play, and could he play!
Stevie Heighway on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
'Bout the glory, round the Fields of Anfield Road
When the kop bounces to that we do it respect.
03ariley 2 months ago
@03ariley Trust football fans to besmirch a great song.....
Factnotfictionpeople 2 months ago 3
@Factnotfictionpeople we do it justice, ever been to anfield when it's sung? I guess not, before you judge go listen then you'll understand, it's magical.
03ariley 2 months ago
The best compliment I can pay to this song is that I used it as a lullaby for my daughter and continue to use it when nights are long for her. Regardless of what the individual adds to the song,... such a lovely work.
baspiobaire 2 months ago
Im in love
doublecharms 2 months ago
Outside the Shankly gates, I heard a Kopite calling, Shankly they have taken you away, but you left a great eleven. before you went to heaven, now's it's glory round the fields of Anfield road. LET THEM SING, nothing political at all about that.
NeilTheFerret1 2 months ago
This song made me cry.
rapid37 2 months ago
GO MUNSTER!!
THEIRA21 2 months ago
Paddy reilly singin?
ACDC920605 2 months ago
@ACDC920605 tis indeed
TheDylanBeatty 2 months ago
Somehow reminds me of
watch?v=KUYIhmahYoA
bstulic 2 months ago
they just rave 'er out at 2;09 //
XixcaolanxiX 2 months ago
初めてDublinersを聴いた時、メロディーの素晴らしさに聴き惚れました。
今は分かりませんが、１９７０年頃は日本では発売されておらず、輸入盤を２枚買い、聴いていました。（今も持っています）
久し振りに、懐かしく拝聴しています。
71471952 2 months ago
absolutely brilliant! reminds me of my grandad, low lie, the fields of athenry!
rjw12345678 2 months ago
Oooh, I love the bit where the whole (huge ^_^) audience joins in. Very nice. (Obviously I'm not the only one who loves the chorus of this. ^__^ Nice audience enthusiasm!)
KittyStarlight 2 months ago
As a Brit republican i wont be watching queens speech. Set Ireland free and free the tyrant from ruling the poor of all the isles.
robdoubler1 2 months ago
@robdoubler1 Silly question pal,but if youre not happy being a "Brit republican"why dont you just be an irish republican and pay your taxes in ireland,if you dont like her Maj why not go back to Ireland??
telboyirish 2 months ago
@robdoubler1
How is the Queen a tyrant? What century are you living in? She's hardly sending the Redcoats over now is she? I rarely comment, but yours is one of those comments that just perplex me...
On a sidenote, great song.
xianth 2 months ago
@AndreasSU in the info box...I think it's both...and thank you for offering it to us as both. ^__^
To anyone/everyone: I just realized that what this song REALLY reminds ME of is my favorite annual Scottish-Irish Festival in Colorado...and also of love, freedom, and Ireland (where I've never been but I "remember" it anyway in a manner of speaking). Guess this song can remind us of whatever we want. Anyway I'd almost forgotten when I last heard this song...but now I can hear my memories again.)
KittyStarlight 2 months ago
Wow, listening to this really makes me think back to when me and my Dad got along, every weekend when we went out, we always used to listen to the dubliners, I realise he'll never see this but I'm sorry for fucking things up, I regret it everyday.
TheXpozaaaH 2 months ago
people moaning about liverpudlians using an irish tune? honestly, you couldnt make it up.
thats like moaning about people from quebec using a french tune or south african boers using a dutch tune.
and the idea that people from liverpool would disrespect the victims of the potato famine is absolutely nuts, those famine victims are our ancestors, we in liverpool know for an absolute fact that our ancestors were affected by the famine because they came here, this is our song as much as anyones.
poetsdontknowit 2 months ago 3
@poetsdontknowit and TheKilkennyhurler: I'm so glad someone thought to mention that. Well said. (I'm American and lots of us in America are Irish or partly Irish too. ^_^)
(Hmmm. Doesn't there always seem to be someone moaning about something or other...whether there's any need to or not. ^_~)
KittyStarlight 2 months ago
@poetsdontknowit... As you rightly say, one of the reasons for so many Irish in Liverpool is because of the Famine. To escape the Famine they first had to sail to Liverpool and then on to the USA or Australia. Many of them, arriving in Liverpool, found they had been scammed, their onward ticket wasn’t valid. So, with no money, they couldn’t go forward or back. They were stuck in Liverpool, destitute.
patrickspoint 1 month ago 22
@patrickspoint mate, in the late 1800`s there was only dublin and cork that had more irish born catholics living there than liverpool, there were more irish catholics living in liverpool than even belfast.
liverpool is the only city on the mainland to elect an irish nationalist MP and it is the birthplace of an irish national hero - james larkin.
even the name `scouser` was given to the irish by scandanavian seamen working out of liverpool ( lobskause = scandanavian version of irish stew)
poetsdontknowit 1 month ago
@patrickspoint What Famine all there was was a Potato Blight.
Kevino1956 3 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Dubliners
@patrickspoint There was No Famine there was a Potato Blight
Kevino1956 3 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Dubliners
@Kevino1956... I think I know what a troll is and I think you are it
patrickspoint 2 weeks ago 2
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@patrickspoint lol is that all you can say silly GobShite. read about the real Irish History
Kevino1956 2 weeks ago
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TheKilkennyhurler 2 hours ago
Shame this song has to be ruined with the stupid shouting in the middle.
jamesrocksass 2 months ago
what is wrong with being a rebel? are we all to be slaves to the banksters and conformists?
3tangle3 2 months ago 3
GO MUNSTER!
Russoat 2 months ago
So what if Liverpool sing an adapted version of it as a football song?
Nearly all football chants/songs originated as other pieces of music, with the words simply changed about their local team. Liverpool fans can use the tune for a song of their own, what does it matter if their English, Irish or from Outer Mongolia? I'm sure most NUFC chants can be deconstructed to their original songs, that doesn't mean that it should have any bearing on whether Newcastle fans are 'allowed' to sing them...
randomidiotic 2 months ago
@randomidiotic... I think people are missing the point here; it’s not whether Liverpool fans be “allowed” to sing the song to changed words. Of course they’re “allowed”. The point is: this song is about a tragic event in a whole series of tragedies in Irish history. I think that people should have more respect for the sentiments expressed in the song and not demean it by using it as a football chant
patrickspoint 2 months ago 75
@patrickspoint I agree, the Liverpool version has NOTHING to do with politics, it's all about their glory days, just listen to the words.
NeilTheFerret1 2 months ago
@patrickspoint get over yerself
wetpancake123 2 months ago
@patrickspoint Well said.
Lynnch1 2 months ago
@patrickspoint ure right
steveLIVERPOOL2389 1 month ago
@steveLIVERPOOL2389 i agree
steveLIVERPOOL2389 1 month ago
@patrickspoint I totally agree with you. The game of football can not be allowed everything.
irelandcallforever 1 month ago in playlist THE DUBLINERS
liverpool fc
NickerSkids 2 months ago
69 people agree with kenny1540 and my vote makes 70
patrickspoint 2 months ago 2
My Mum's favorite song.... Lovely song..... simply lovely....
djskitzy74 2 months ago
Rebel song or not it's beautiful music!
Anyway the British Government of the time were treating the English little better.
rashnurse 2 months ago
Beauty and honour in equal measure. Against the famine and the crown, I rebelled, they brought me down - beauty
MrHarrylime79 2 months ago
I don't care if it's considered a rebell song or not it's a great song... and back then there really was a lot of poverty and stuff its just a look into the past and the fammin.
HudineSpiritWolf 2 months ago
I'm 15 now living in Holland. I really love Ireland so much more than my country, when I'm 20 or so what, I'm going to go Ireland and maybe stay there for the rest of my life.
NoahdJong 2 months ago 2
so beautiful
KayelizabethDownie 2 months ago
why do i listen to this? it just makes me weep. Oh Belfast... i will come home one day. Sincerely, Lost son in Australia.
BrigadierButtons 2 months ago
i like the liverpool version better
NickerSkids 3 months ago
@NickerSkids
you are one dumb cunt.
hellyeah2ful 3 months ago
Thank you Irish people for the MUSIC, GUINNESS and CELTIC. God bless ya.
Sincerely, Polish friends.
adimegadethfan 3 months ago
i'm english, and I love ireland, i think the irish are a great people that have a lot in common with the english. i just wish that our two great countries could grow up and be proud to call each other friends.
long live ireland and england!
bostonred11 3 months ago 17
@bostonred11 words cannot express how right you are...
gimpmobile 3 months ago
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. - William E. Gladstone
Spudus 3 months ago 4
kenny1540- more irish moved to liverpool during the famine than anywhere else in uk. in the late 1800`s liverpool had more irish born catholics living there than even belfast,only cork and dublin had more.
the term `scouser` and the scouse accent is down to the irish influence in the city.
it`s the only city in mainland britain to elect an irish nationalist MP and it is the birthplace of an irish national hero james larkin.
liverpool knows all about the famine mate, it`s in the cities DNA
poetsdontknowit 3 months ago 5
@poetsdontknowit i disagree
steveLIVERPOOL2389 1 month ago
what do the crowd sing when he says "where once we watched the small free birds fly" thanks love this song
karebear14lufc 3 months ago
@karebear14lufc something about Kenny Dalglish
CanYouCountRob 3 months ago
@karebear14lufc 'Where once we watched the King Kenny play'
ThaGrimReefah34 3 months ago
Excellent tune! Love how the crowd participates! Raises the hair on my arms!
sidDkid87 3 months ago
fab song
dangerousdave961 3 months ago
Why do Liverpool football fans take someone elses song and bastardise the lyrics of a very beautiful and meaningful song. This is not the first time they've done it; they took "You'll Never Walk Alone". They should find their own song.
patrickspoint 3 months ago 2
@patrickspoint Who did they take you'll never walk alone off ? bulshit mate thats Liverpools song and other clubs such as Celtic and Borrusia Dortmund decided to sing it aswell. The band Gerry & The Pacemakers are from Liverpool and the Liverpool fans started singing this while it was in the charts in 63 along with other songs like The Beatles 'Hey Jude' and this is how it became their song.
ThaGrimReefah34 3 months ago
@ThaGrimReefah34... Gerry and the Pacemakers’ version was a cover of the song from the 1945 musical, “Carousel” by Rogers and Hammerstein. In the musical it was sung to comfort a woman after her husband kills himself. Carousel is an American musical and has no connection to Liverpool.
patrickspoint 3 months ago 17
@patrickspoint They sing it because it was sang by a band called Gerry And The Pacemakers from Liverpool and the song reached no1 in the charts.
ThaGrimReefah34 3 months ago
why do liverpool fans sing this when there are no fields on anfield road?
aidancodona88 3 months ago
this is a beautiful ballad very well sung.
stuarobins 3 months ago
@Nialld271 amen to that!
IrishNProud180 3 months ago
the british scum in the north once took my dad away , to crumlin road jail for taking a farmers chicken to feed his family in the early 60s :( omg travellers where treated bad :9 and i suppose they still are :( but 1day the irish will all be free :) and travelling gypsys can roam all of ireland free as a bird :) without the threat of northern irish brit supporting protestants picking on us :) 1day my family will be free in the whole of ireland :)
TheGlenmanusskinhead 3 months ago
this is a song, not a rebel song or watever, im irish thru and thru, this song is a national treasure and the man who wrote it also is, what this song is about is pride, for all those people who died and suffered on coffin ships and other tings, its a reminder of our hard times and the irish mentality of never giving up, for the love of one's country is the most important ting, above all else
Nialld271 3 months ago
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TheKilkennyhurler 3 months ago
fuck anyone who dislikes this song it is possibly the best song ever writen i was about to cry.
God bless Ireland and God bless the brave men and women who died for her.
32counties1 3 months ago
I'm sorry, and this is gonna sound so stupid, but my speakers are ridiculously shite. What's that they're chanting in the chorus? I know. I'm a gobshite whatever, but could someone help me out? And maybe buy me new speakers for christmas?! :)
IrishNProud180 3 months ago
@IrishNProud180... Hey baby let the free birds fly. Sinn Fein. IRA.
patrickspoint 3 months ago
If you are Irish or Scots/Irish a song with true Factual/Historical/Emotional meaning.It is not anti English but may be considered correctly anti British.
durthang14 3 months ago
y'all don't have a clue
MrCoolock 4 months ago
Great stuff,hail
TheWoodwyndman 4 months ago
best irish song ever
robiboy51 4 months ago
Reminds me of my nan, chokes me up
ppaauulloohhaarraa 4 months ago
hail
TheWoodwyndman 4 months ago
@Mikeb1001..... well said.
chelskipaul 4 months ago
I love how this was only popular in Ireland LOL!
boneyboyco 4 months ago
@boneyboyco Folk music was the way in which the lower classes made their stories remembered. Seeing that often they were illiterate, this was the only way in which their memories could be passed down. Much better way I think!
TimmyHowles 4 months ago
@TimmyHowles This song is written about the famine and forced emigration but it was written in the 1970's and first recorded in 1979. It is a modern song. (Someone pointed that out to me on one of my comments. I checked it out. I thought it was an older folk song also.) My best, Moppet
MyMoppet52 4 months ago
Makes me feel proud to be Irish
TheTelboy81 4 months ago
TheJay9002, below, makes the point that there is a huge population in Liverpool of Irish decent. He is quite right and the reason can be traced to the Famine. I just wish he had made his point with descending into the gutter with his last sentence. I’m sure he wouldn’t say that to kenny1540’s face.
patrickspoint 4 months ago
@kenny1540 shut up.
murderone1969 4 months ago
This is my second try-think the last one censored,but why?,just want to say that this song helped keep me sane and alive-4 years in HMP for a crime I did not commit,went to bed with these words in my head every night-if you ever face the same remember this,it will help,injustice is unfortunately a common thing-God forbid you could be next!
justchris48 4 months ago 33
@justchris48 Bless you, and save you from such misfortune in future. You are right, though. It is so much more common than most people think.... Very sad.
LHMCB 3 months ago
@justchris48 sorry for that hope you come out the other side
paul196824 2 months ago
@justchris48 WELL SAID LAD ,HAPPY XMASS
TheKilkennyhurler 2 months ago
god i love being a celt fuck england
imrightyourwrong24 4 months ago
is brea liom
garwondo 4 months ago
I am irish :D
MegaLexinton 4 months ago
@MegaLexinton am living in northern ireland but this is one of my fav song should not matter prod our cath should be proud of wee contry
Ewartable 4 months ago
i like how the entire audience could sing it perfect haha
xNoTriggerx 4 months ago
JUSTICE FOR PAT FINUCANE
Swiftyireland 4 months ago 2
Whatever the song is or isn't about, I know I don't like the ad at the beginning. :(
eveningtsar 4 months ago
to all the liverpool fans, you realise that this song is about the famine in Ireland and you singing it about anfield actually makes no sense at all
kenny1540 4 months ago 72
@kenny1540 The famine in Ireland is why half of the people in Liverpool are there.
TheEskimosPantry 4 months ago
@kenny1540 There was huge Irish immigration to Liverpool. Thus the cultural heritage of these people became integrated in the culture of Liverpool and became part of a shared identity, finding expression in this case in the form of song. But that would have been obvious to anyone whos not a fucking spastic.
TheJay9002 4 months ago
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TheKilkennyhurler 4 months ago
@kenny1540 we don't sing the same words you mug
ferky7 4 months ago
@kenny1540 who cares, good song
kriminalcollective 3 months ago
@kenny1540 please remember that many celtic fans use You'll never walk alone as their song. This may have been reciprocated by Liverpool fans. Do not begin a debate into 'our song against your song' because my friend you would lose!
andiedeno 3 months ago
@kenny1540 Course it does, alot the lyrics have been altered so that it makes sense and the rendition we sing has nothing to do with the potato famine. we just use the tune and a few verses.
'All round the fields of Anfield road, where once we watched the king Kenny play. Stevie Highway on the wing, we had dreams and songs to sing, bout the glory round the fields of Anfield road' You're think and slow if you don't know how that makes sense.
ThaGrimReefah34 3 months ago
@ThaGrimReefah34 this song/story is about a man from Athenry Co. Galway who was sentenced to transportation to Australia for stealing corn from an English owned farm to feed his starving family. Ireland was part of the UK in which Irish Catholics where prohibited from owning land,voting,obtaining education,having a profession and from doing many other things to prosper and succeed in life. as an Irish man i find it disrespectful and ignorant that Liverpool an English soccer team bastardize it.
bolgert911 3 months ago
@kenny1540 are you on the gear you, liverpool fc version doesn't have one single word the same and is all about Liverpool, just happens to be sung to the same tune!
biggreenblunt 3 months ago