Kirsty MacColl - Belle of Belfast City

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sad end to a good girl

[mastertechnician1]

she is awesome always will be RIP

[alexfromglasgow]

i saw kirstie perform just a few months before she died. it was at an irish festival at finsbury park. she seemed quite happy, and was doing a lot of latin/South American inspired stuff, as she had recently been out that way for a bit.

[cpet60]

Memories of a great night in the Irish Bar in Gibraltar with the crew of HMS Campeltown, now they could party!!!

[JLS4ever22]

im actually quarter irish & i have gypsy blood in me, but i still respect the irish even tho im not fully! iyagm (if you all get me)

[DonegalRaymie201]

No offence intended, but wasn't Kirsty born in England?

And her father, Ewan MacColl was a Scot born in Manchester??

His famous song, "Dirty Old Town" was surely about Salford?

[MrTedByrne]

@pinkiepie24 no were Irish

[smokie19902099]

R.I.P

[JLS4ever22]

@smokie19902099 has she died?

[smokie19902099]

@JLS4ever22 yeah she got hit by a boat on holidays check it out on thew wiki it was very sad

[JLS4ever22]

@smokie19902099 that's so sad =( r.i.p kirsty xxxx

[JLS4ever22]

@smokie19902099 i did! soo sad! r.i.p kirsty! xo

[nikkiandlouise]

Irish and proud. jfs :L

[heartofwinx]

i live belfast love this song

[123byrne1]

born in ireland lived in ireland we are ireland :)

[popechucky]

@steamgeezer. AMEN to that, love.

[steamgeezer]

OK, OK, Break it up, weve all had a drink. I adore this song and Kirsty MacColl I am English and my much loved Grandmother is Irish. To those of you who know anything about ships, the Titanic was built by Harland and Wolf. She was handsome she was pretty SHE was the belle of Belfast city!.

[DasGrausam]

@pinkiepie24

Considering the "bollocks" went on for almost a thousand years (two centuries off a thousand years) - I'd say the arguing will go on for awhile...I can only partly agree with you (I'm English by the way) - but it wasn't just our ancestors.

Good point all the same though.

[elizabethbellion22]

oh to be irish so i can do the proper dance :D

[mscutie00000]

love this song

[ytilibaliavification]

where can i get this for my ipod

[saintfield100]

@ytilibaliavification  youtube converter

[mscutie00000]

@ytilibaliavification iTunes?

[PedroL2301]

@ytilibaliavification "where can i get this for my ipod"

iProd...?

[walshy2866]

TOTALLY CORRECT .

THIS AIN'T A BAD SONG BUT ITS NOT,NOT,NOT,NOT OUR KIRSTY!!!!

JAN SMITS VERSION IS THE BEST . A DUTCH BAND DOING A JIG . FUNNY AS F**K

[Fairisle4]

THIS IS NOT KIRSTY MAcCOLL!!! THIS IS TERRIBLE!

IT WAS SOME AWFUL 1980'S BAND

GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT

KIRSTY WAS A BRILLIANT MUSICIAN, SINGER AND SONGWRITER

DO NOT ATTRIBUTE THIS WORK TO HERS!!!

SACRILAGE.....TAKE IT OFF NOW

WHERE IS SHANE MACGOWAN WHEN YOU NEED HIM?????? HE WOULD TELL YOU IN HIS VERY OWN WORDS....AND IT WOULD NOT BE POLITE.

[connorhobson1]

@pinkiepie24 yes your correct our ancestors were the problem as they were savages but we have developed mentally and socially and there is no need for this type of petty confilct because im scottish and irish descent although im not actually from there lol

[connorhobson1]

@pinkiepie24 yes your correct our ancestors were the problem as they were savages but we have developed mentally and socially and there is no need for this type of petty confilct because im scottish and irish descent although im not actually from there lol

[dell1158]

i had a dream about a little leprechaun singin this song in my ear last night lmao

[Gongadon]

@dell1158 I want a dream like that!

[innsound1]

this is shamrock not kirsty mccoll????



[EmmatheMinx]

@pinkiepie24 THANK YOU!

[Green19Frog94]

Irish People are just, GOD DAMN AMAZING :')

[Ceredamroth]

My mum used to sing this as "the girl from Dublin City" but I think it works really well either way. After all who's to say what religion she was. All the names in the song are Catholic so probably.....

[Insomniac618]

@jamesseanwilliam Was Irish history actually brought into English schools? Last I heard it was still being called the potato famine over there and not the English famine.

[TheFallenSkriker]

her voice <3

[blackoutrus]

@star13uk yes we are the fuking best english and proud,but without everybody else irish,scots welsh were fuck all thanks matey.

[blackoutrus]

@Insomniac618 fuck off you prick the IRA killed people because they liked it and your just another wanker hanger on you fukin penarse.

[Insomniac618]

@blackoutrus Did the Black n Tans tell everyone that that's why they were killing civilians?

[FIntyMAcC10]

@star13uk belfast is irish you fucking pest

[ewingwallace]

This sounds a lot like Sham Rock's version. Is it?

[CopyOfMe]

@ewingwallace It is. It must be the wrong audio, thinking of the title of this video.

[littlecupcakesROCK]

im from belfast..........

[annalouiseeeee]

i love this song, mostely because when i was on holiday this was on all the time and all my family loved to sing and dance around to this song!

[dmarshall37]

@Insomniac618 please tell me you are joking me, protestants supporting the IRA these days? the IRA have lost the majority of support with catholics never mind protestants supporting them. all they are doing is trying to bring Northern Ireland back to the troubles killing innocent men and women in the police and soldiers.

[Insomniac618]

@dmarshall37 Actually most IRA groups are now involved in more covert political endeavours. It's only the dissident cell groups and aggravated civilians that are continuing the violence in the North. The recent activities of the IRA were focused around the Lisbon treaty and U.S. military aircrafts in Ireland. Regardless, there's still an abundance of people in Northern Ireland and Scotland that want independence, and people from the Republic that think England still owes Ireland compensation.

[BintCrusher]

This is a playground song about all the good people who live in the greatest city in the world and it has to be hijacked by bigots. Shame on you, shame.

[Insomniac618]

What's shocking is that the Queen has only recently apologised for the English famine in Ireland (several years and thousands of pounds lighter of course), and still it's taught in English schools and even several Irish ones that the famine was caused by a potato blight. As if the Irish were dependent on a single non-native plant for survival in a country whose chief exports are dairy products and pork. It's just the hight of disrespect, and they don't even realise it because of their education.

[1elanorrigby]

@Insomniac618 This is 100% true. There are many protestant supporters of Irish Nationalism. I know a handful of people personally, who support A 32 county Ireland and who have the sense to understand that the British attempted a genoside. The IRB attacks were purely retaliation, or moreso defense. Surely it would have been foolish to watch a home country being ripped apart. This issue is still distinct in Northern ireland, particularly places, like Derry City that is negligently affected...

[turbonicknick]

@star13uk  top man

[Insomniac618]

@babywoo1973 The song's not an issue. I was just arguing that the comment that got 35 thumbs up would be considered offensive to most Irish people. To varying degrees, but still offensive. The Queen only apologised for the famine a short while ago, which was the only response to a demand for compensation from the Irish government a few decades ago. The English government has never shown any respect towards the Irish. We don't like it.

[ukuk2012ukukuk2012uk]

fuck the history this is a good song about a northern irish city

[DjQuick2008]

IRELAND ARSE

[LaurennBlahhh]

Ladses! Its a great song leave at that!

[lastrada52]

"Excellent" is not a good enough word for this song or Kirsty MacColl's performance. It's Magnificent. What music is all about. Or should be. I give everyone a chance -- but you couldn't possibly convince me that an R&B song by some diva or a rap song can make you jump out of your skin and dance around in your bones like this.

[etaylor671]

yay go belfast im from belfast and i live in belfast wooo hooo lololol

[yvonne52746]

brillent song

[losgalanes5]

Just enjoy the music forget the other crap.

[Tombuchaill]

@losgalanes5 couldn't have said it better myself

[gaconnochie]

and even a fair (if less than Scotland) percentage of English who don't identify themselves as British - no matter what their passport says or other people say :-)

[luke10000000000]

well thsts this song stuck in my head for the rest of the week... :L

[gnomely1]

@star13uk Thank you. That's the most sensible comment I've heard in many a year, and so right too. We in these small islands have influenced and achieved great things across the World throughout history. Long may you live in well-being, good health and enjoyment.

[NobodyFucksWithJesus]

I LIKE MUSIC!

[speedtwin007]

I am as British as they come but I think this is a tribute to a great Irish girl and her singing, not a platform for all this crap. R.I.P. Kirsty Mc Coll you are sadly missed.

[Cruitheach]

@speedtwin007 Hear, hear! Although she wasn't actually Irish chief

[gaconnochie]

@speedtwin007 Shet is singing an Irish song here but Kirsty was English. Her father was Ewan MacColl the folk singer. That is the writer of Dirty Old Town and Shoals Of Herring. He was born and brought up in Salford though his parents were Scottish.

[newcastlewatson]

@star13uk English, welsh and scots mate av always hated each other just we`re polite about it and when we come in to contact with each where friendly but behind closed doors the love is their but where at war. but like a unhappy family we dont like it when other people start picking on the family. United we stand tall. And we have that edge that no country has that good old sick sense of humour.

[TwilightTheFan]

this song makes we wanna irish jig with niall horan and stan lucas.

[mikeshinodaisthebest]

R.I.P Kirsty McColl.

[TheGbeney]

I'm not from Ireland, but I've got Irish ancestry in me, and songs like this get my blood moving a lot more than the shyte they play on radios today. As a Canadian who would rather have been born in Ireland, I love anything Celtic and dream of someday visiting the place where my roots lay.

[jotsmee68]

Love this song as a Yorkshireman just because my mam was from Belfast. Fuck the politics.

[KillaBeeStingzz]

@star13uk totaly agree mate,well said!!!

[shannond2582]

love this quine xx

[3tangle3]

@star13uk but us welsh culturally ignored for hundreds of years....why on ppl in Britain? ppl around the world can be just as good?

[erinflower1]

@star13uk sign me up!

[joker9163]

@insomniac618 NI people have this thing, or can have this thing called dual nationality. On English/Welsh/Scottish(?) passports it says "Great Britain and Northern Ireland", so they include NI as being British when it comes to the passports. Therefore...people from NI are British, Irish or both. When I said I had a British passport, I exaggerated to prove my point >.>. My friends have British passports, I have an Irish one. I could get a British one if I wanted one, AS WELL.

[Steve983cobra]

I have an Irish Passport. I am from Northern Ireland. I am Irish. I live in Ireland? You have issues??

[sambafrost]

dawncruttenden well said. northern irish people are great , we have are own identity why can people not just get over all this shit , i mean c'mon its 2011 already

[joker9163]

@Insomniac618 you may find this confusing because you are STUPID but Northern Irish people are in fact BRITISH even though it is not part of Great Britain. I am from NI and I have British passport. EVERYONE HERE DOES.

Happy St.Patrick's Day! :)

[Insomniac618]

@joker9163 Thanks for proving my last point anyway. Happy Paddy's Day! :D

[RoyalDecapitation82]

@joker9163 Speak for yourself when you say you're British.... Passports have nothing to do with, even though I have an Irish one. It's about your culture... Passports are little books... and I have an Irish culture, I live on the island of Ireland, so I'm Irish.

[3tangle3]

@RoyalDecapitation82 good man, no one gave a shit about the welsh for hundreds of years and as soon as we want devolution they talk about bullshit about how we are better together....why cant the whole world just co-operate instead having to be sevile to the english state

[gaconnochie]

@joker9163 I think the problem is British as a word means various things. Geogrpahically it obviously means people from the island of Great Britain. It then also means people from that island in a political sense. And lastly it can mean people from the UK as a whole as there is no alternative name - for example we don't say United Kingdomers. In the end though despite what people's passports say they will self identify themselves. Setting aside the situation in Ireland there are plenty of Scots

[dawncruttenden]

for christs sake!!! there are no 'jaffa' or 'fenian', English/Irish in this song! My dad used to sing this to me when I was wee. People like you spoil everything that's wonderful about being northern Irish and hold us all back from moving forward. get a life.

[7DAYSJANKERS]

love you loads , rest in peace x

[inferndragon]

Its just pointless to talk about the past...

Its a good cheery song :3

[DubhCion]

For fucksake would youse all quit yapping on about politics, religion and butthurt, and just enjoy the music. Not everything has to come back to all that auld shite.

[conehead1991]

R.I.P Kirsty McColl :-( x

[Insomniac618]

@TabbitMaster No; a guy earlier claimed that the Irish were British.

[missjamie135]

@Insomniac618 lol! noo way?!? Irish arn't british! lol!! I think Some parts of Ireland are classed as british cause they still part of it, but nah! lol!

[Insomniac618]

@missjamie135 What's worse is that his initial comment was all about how much he loves the Irish. He's clearly never been to a pub in the republic or he wouldn't have been alive to say what he did. And actually the Northern Irish aren't part of Great Britan, only the United Kingdom; so they aren't actually British either. But some of them don't even know that so- :-P :-D

[WelcomeToTheBlueRoom]

i love the irish accent in irish folk. must go there xx

[ianh13uk]

@Insomniac618 Which is probably why tthere is so much hatred and pain in the world. My mums brother was killed by the Japanese, my dad lost his parents and his house to a German bomb. And the Romans... dont get me started on them. Brits rule? Do you have another collective noun for the wonderful people of these lovely islands? I will happily use it. I live to look to a nicer future.. not hung up on unpleasant pasts. You should try it.

[Insomniac618]

@ianh13uk "Brits" is not a collective noun for the people of these islands, because the Irish of the Republic are not British. In your nicer future perhaps you could see clear to affording the Republican Irish that you claim to love so much at least a bit of respect.

[ianh13uk]

@Insomniac618 You may not by part of the UK but you do live on what the maps call the British Isles (not English Isles). You come up with a collective noun and I will happily use it. Nothing to do with respect - just good wishes. But... in your case I do feel like making an exception - respect? You earn that... and so far apart from being easily offended and hung up in an embittered past... you seem to have a long way to go. Good luck with that.

[Insomniac618]

@ianh13uk Perhaps if you were to refer to a map that was produced in this century you'd know that the Republic of Ireland stands apart from the British Isles. The closest thing to the collective noun that you're looking for is 'European'.

[blackdog1952]

Kirsty McColl never recorded Belle of Belfast City. The track here is by Sham Rock.

[DudeMaster2011]

awesome song the irish are the best when it comes to music :P go irish! XD

[chownsy]

Id love to have this tune with out the singing as i want to see if i can use it for a barn dance i have just wrote, does anyone know where i could get rid of the singing off this?

[Perfectpastries]

@star13uk As an Englishman I am PROUD to be counted with You!

[MyHellboy90]

Love the Song i was born a Belfast Boy and wouldin't want to be from anywhere else, but it is sad when people talk about Politics on every thing to do with these islands, i guess the hands of friendship to all of these islands and across the world, peace out, RJ

[Darrenhale1]

@MyHellboy90 Politics aside i love belfast and very Good Mates on BOTH Sides and love them all and get up for good pints of harp as often as i can as you say Hands of FRIENDSHIP out to all and Let us ALL get back on our feet and make Friends and a FEW quid as well !!!!

[flippedphilosopher]

Here's the one thing I don't get about this song, why does she WANT the fella with the roving eye?

[Oriax126]

naw lad not brit rile tiocfaidh ar la ;)

[MrMCR2010]

im a girl of belfast city!!!!

[Meadoway40]

Is Kirsty MacColl playing the flute?

[dumb7890]

i am born and raised in TEXAS and love this song and Kristy McColl 

[Angus01ful]

Math a bhi ga cluinnteil....Sung the way the song was intented,,down home style..Love this lady.

[copterpilot2k4]

this is sham-rock..not kirsty mccoll.

[mrwy1]

im half english and half irish and i love this song to the max and who ever said scottish people hate english people do 1 fuck off. i am a proud English man,

love this song.



[glazierbeii96]

I'm Irish But Live In England But Even Though I Only Lived In Ireland For A Couple Of Months I'm Still Proud To Be Irish.

[DerMitten]

Well worldgonegaga, I may be a cunt, but, 1) I can spell independent and 2) we are trying to get rid of you whinging porridge wogs from England. but you won't go home will you? PS love the "Broons" speak.

[worldgonegaga]

@DerMitten im scottish

[DerMitten]

@worldgonegaga

No You're a Scot. Do you live in Scotland?

[worldgonegaga]

@DerMitten aye obouisly i wouldnt say i wis a sot is i wasnt i live in the middle of edinburgh and glasgow ya wee pisshead

[bethphillips1]

i'm welsh and i think all of the irish songs are amazing! this, galway girl and fairytale of new york are amazing!! and i dont think of myself as 'english' or 'british' i am welsh, and im proud just like every Irish person and every Scottish person. I personally think English accents are either posh or chav! Irish and Scottish accents are sexy! We Welsh sound a bit thick mun!

[jotsmee68]

@bethphillips1 I'm from Yorkshire, we sound even thicker but we're sexy with it.

[TheHopwell]

The english are welcome in northern ireland because we are british, n.i has nothing to do with irish. we have earned our right to be part of the united kingdom WE WENT TO WW1 WHEN WE DIDNT HAVE TO. UP THE 1st BATTALION ULSTER VOLUNTEER FORCE 1912-2010

[wexfordrob]

@TheHopwell spa

[TheIrelandsCall]

haha classic !

[Vaettravmidgard]

english tit talkin here, 1st irish = epic, 2nd scots =awesomeness 3rd what the heck, the english may have come from germany and scandieland, been c**ts and taken over britain, but as far as i'm concerned this land belongs to the welsh. silence you all and enjoy the greatness that was betswoed upon us all with the geratness of irish music, cas its the only thing that gets us english through on a drunken night :p peace to all brits ( exept the english, we ait brits at all lol)

[wheatley88hayter87]

i love this song thanks for adding it. im english by the way and me and ma fiancee went to belfast at the beggining of october its a beautiful city and we will defo be going again. As for scotland i wouldn`t go there if you paid me full of idiots i reckon.

[worldgonegaga]

@wheatley88hayter87 fuck u hen im proud tae be scottish the english are fuckin cunts all scottish people hate english people

[2pac1971to1996rip]

@worldgonegaga aye apart fae them anglo scots boy oh boy i do hate them cunts

[jotsmee68]

@worldgonegaga Your just a boring prick, fucking do one you sad cunt. Your a typical internet generation tosspot. Real people get it on with each other no matter where thyey'are from. How to spot an interweb wanker? He types in a regional accent.

[worldgonegaga]

@jotsmee68 im only bloddy 10 years old and im standing up for my country and im a girl btw

[jotsmee68]

@worldgonegaga First lesson in life then, don't be an obnoxious twat.

[worldgonegaga]

@jotsmee68 ano i am

[captainviagra2001]

i am scottish and proud i live in england but only here 2 take your job and your hooses

[c0linsutherland]

why r use arguing about scottish and irish pointless scots r scots and irish r irish am scottish but i like sum irish people its only a song bigotry is a waste of time half of use dont even know wat it means

[inisboy1]

@HiroTakashima ha ha typicail dumb jock! ist of all im not ur mate. 2nd of all im irish. 3rd of all scotland kick irelands arse!! an finally last but not least almost never win a war!!!!!! ha ha lol man ur so dumb ur funny

[inisboy1]

why r u scottish people so bigiot? u go on about hating engand, yet u r are part of england, u could ent beat them so u joined them!!

[worldgonegaga]

@inisboy1 we are not a part of england we trying to become an inpendent country

[nickynoonar1]

Love this song !



[diddlydidi1]

thank you so much, l had totally forgotten how good this song is xxx

[scotswanderer]

What has Scotland got to do with this song? Belfast's the capital of N. Ireland, the last i looked. As for lyrics; Just google Belle of Belfast City Lyrics, and you should get them.

[fruitloop4eva]

omg i cant get enough of this song!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fruitloop4eva]

brilliant i love this song but yeh dont mean to be cheeky bt any chance of lyrics?? x oh and were is scottish coming from ?? its irish!

[whiskey1951]

Great song, From John Belfast.

[OstrichOwner]

It's a shame about the bigoted comments - it's an amazing song and shouldn't be a reason for people to make racist remarks.

A brilliant song!!

[HUTINAK]

Well thanks for putting a beat mix into that traditonal song, that you thought needed energy to make it into club in Dublin

[kcunningham064]

tell me ma, when i go home. brill song as i'm from belfast. yo. true song. go on belfast gaints as they play this song when they score a goal.

[purplemans2010]

i love scotland but im english ther brave scots is in my blood and ill stand by that scotish

[purplemans2010]

good old irish song :)

[masrrr]

scotish till i die fuk the english mon scotland scotland has never been countered unlike england SCOTLAND THE BRAVE

[jac95ify]

well since were all telling our heritage and blood im Scottish, Irish and English and the english are stuck up wankers i fucking love this song like !!

[xxmusicgalxx]

class song

[hawickman]

Get a life y7ou English twats. Scotland and Ireland made England what it likes to think it is

[arsewipe619]

@hawickman TWAT

[couslandrogue1004]

@hawickman: TOO RITE. I'M SCOTTISH TILL I DIE

[Tolerantism]

@hawickman I think it's you that needs to get a life. Most of us just enjoy this great song, instead of indulging in your sad pathetic bigotry,

[ra2shadow]

@hawickman I have lived in England, Sotland and Ireland. Im Scottish by birth.

By far and away England has a higher % of wankers.

[snittenlovesplay]

tunee ;) x

[mii284]

i found this song at my school cuz we were doing a britans got talant

[2009jimmy2009]

rape!!!!

[SHARPToronto]

This is NOT Kristy McColl, this is Sham Rock.

[elanru2008]

Would love to have the lyrics of this song!?!?

[mii284]

@elanru2008 i would

[animagus1]

Google them! :-s

[StuckinSecond6]

@elanru2008 try googling "tell me ma" same song different artists :)

[68nitehawk]

@elanru2008 just listen easy enuff

[MaCcAzGoD17]

what a legend of a tune, hopefully her killer will get put behind bar's soon!

[dduuddllee]

good song!!! up de irish!!!!