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  • so miau wer will camen

  • i cant find this song in the states...(except for youtube)...bullshight!

  • GAY FReAKS

  • I am English although one side of my family had to leave northern Ireland a long time ago, Ireland for the Irish

  • I'm English - probably not a popular nation on this page - this song is fantastic.

  • The ordinary Brit had it bad too. My best friend in the world is an Englishman and hes like family at this stage and its a very republican family.

  • fuck the brits, fuck the uvf, fuck the queen and fuck anyone who thinks ireland belongs to the brits! THIS IS OUR FUCKING COUNTRY! UP THE RA!

  • @2doctoma Wow there's always one, isn't there? You need to chill, dude. I don't think anyone's said anything to warrant this.

  • @notquiteluke sorry, angry at the time. had a debate with a unionist online. i beleve what i said, but not as violently as that.

  • @2doctoma Haha, I love the idea of getting in an argument with a unionist and just going 'FUCK IT I'LL LISTEN TO SOME GOOD IRISH MUSIC! AND THEN I'LL TAKE MY ANGER OUT ON THE COMMENTS!' Rationality is the key to a good argument. Carry on, sir.

  • I've never been to the green island. but i'd love to go there. and i promise: i will go there! and i love the irish culture! hail eire! best greetz from germany! we love you!

  • support irish bands and singers such as the wolfe tones and luke kelly to keep the tradition alive

  • So can anyone please tell me why this video doesn't have more than a million views? The economy may be shit right now, but come on, humanity's good taste of music doesn't have to drop with the stock market...

  • Awesome Song, I Love Irish Music! I am a part Scot, but sometimes Scottish Music sounds so similar to Irish Music. I hope to someday visit the UK and learn of my English, Scotch, French Roots. My Grandmother was born in Sunderland, England, maiden name;"DeRoche" Married into the Bailey Family, Mr. Bailey got killed in WW2. My Grandmother remarried into the Connolly Family and her husband got killed in WW2.One of the names is in relation to Mac.Donald and maybe Irish Descendant. Interesting

  • @SingingTimberwolf Be prepared to be confused, genetically we are all the same(recant DNA studies),but the religious,cultural,and the political differences of the last 400/500 years define us today and our tribal allegiances.

  • @SingingTimberwolf Scotland and Ireland used to be one Kingdom. I understand Scots gaelic better than gaelic spoken In souther ireland and I'm an Ulster man.

  • @SingingTimberwolf good you have 3 celtic parts of you then,the irish,the french and the tim

  • @SingingTimberwolf I was born in Sunderland. My Mom a war bride. My Dad a Canadian Highlander soldier. D Day etc. Makes me I guess a product of the wartime rubber shortage I suppose/. LOL!

  • @sgtcrab1

    i was born in sunderland too........... where are you now??

  • @antbug11 Funny you should say that, Im Irish but live in the states. My kids are American. I took my 4 year old for ice cream one night and there was an Irish band playing in the corner, when he heard the music he just started dancing like ive never seen him do before, my American wife said "it's in his blood". So I took him home and started playing trad Irish music on You Tube. He lit up, like ive never seen, he LOVES IT and doesnt even know why. And to tell you the truth I dont even know.

  • @antbug11 Everyone with Irish roots is a part of our nation. Its your heritage and your birthright.

  • I'm an American but my Dad was born in Galway. He asked me to pull up some Luke Kelly songs. We were only going to listen to 2 or 3. We ended up watching 19 Dubliners videos, 5 Wolfe Tones, and 7 Pogues. Great Old Night in Chicago...

  • @slapshot37GNR My dad was Irish and my mother was Greek so I don't know whether to eat a potato or shove it up my ass.

  • @431pvuf ROFLMAO

  • this song sends de shiver up me spine

  • Mere words cannot convey the depth of feeling this song gives me. Of one thing I am sure, a more powerful and truthful voice I have never heard.

  • green blues

  • ten times cooler than Hendrix. FACT!!

  • Brillent agreat song by Luke

    Excellent video

    Thanks Sessenaz for sharing

  • Fabulous - Luke was awesome!

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  • one of the best lyrical songs ever...ending on" freedom fights might shine through the foggy dew."..incredible

  • Great song... I feel proud to be Irish.

  • Would be proud to be Irish but I'm Spanish, so even... Éire go Brách!!!!

  • @SpainEire The Celts that originally sailed to Ireland and colonised the land were thought to have come from (among other places) Iberian/ Lusitanian lands, so the Spanish are really just the Irish's southern brothers and sisters (distant cousins) :D

    El viva la Espania! :D

  • @gisty84 And then a branch called the Scoti entered the present Scotland and mixed with the then population and produced a helluva race of poets, pricks, geniuses, and occasionally an ordinary person. Wha's like us.

  • @gisty84 I'm Macedonian, and still would say: Éire go Brách!!!!

    I just love your culture! :D Wish I was Irish...

  • @moonchildcosmic you have alexander the great! another great drinker!

  • @lawndog6794 hahaha, that's right.... :) But still, I would like to live in Ireland someday... Or at least visit it. I don't know why I'm so drawn to Irish culture.... :)

  • @SpainEire .Spanish!...well, if youre from Gaelicia!, youre a Gael!=youre technically Irish because the Irish Gaels came from youre turf if youre Gaelician!

  • @acerb45666555 thats a lie, cause the galiocians of today are less aeuropeans that a muslim. came here and see it. and in the past theres no vestige of celtic presence until the II century bc, theres only assumptions. if you dnt believe me go to see Estrabon, Schulten, etc... the ancient galicians were the oestrimnians

  • @mentioko Easy mistake to make, but @SpainEire was referring to the Spanish region of Galicia not Galicia/Galizia in Eastern Europe. Spanish Galicia does indeed have Celtic connections.

  • @SpainEire What a legendary comment haha ;)

  • 95 years today, not forgotten for there sacrifice. Proud to be Irish

  • ohh god, Why wasn't i born Irish? so awsome!

  • Canon O'Neill I salute you! Wonderful Lyrics and ofcourse sung expertly by Lúcás Ó Ceallaigh.

  • feck luke he could have left us a easierer job

  • best song he ever sang : }

  • this song ... I love it. The Version of Sinead O' Connor is awesome too.

    cheers from germany

  • Youtue working fine, the 6 that dont like it are scum english

  • we should have this as our national anthem.

  • Deep :), Must save it for later

  • töll_sùcht_mÄl_Nãch:_geldeasy_­ãÜf_gÔöglÈ

  • Best Luke Kelly song EVER!!!!!!!!!! is there a dvd with this show on?

  • the last verse is beautiful...the world gazing in deep amaze at freedom fighters......freedom is a virtue not to be forgotten

  • it,s a historic song, an irish song,  my grand-dad who was involved, he loved this song,agreat song.

  • magic - what else cud it be ?????

  • i dont like the last verse, alot of good men died for ireland in different wars that r jus dismissed in the last verse , not on and not a true irish feeling to disown ur own.. should be changed

  • @bigsinger1981 i don't get your point caller? it's geographical. suvla bay is in turkey.

  • @bigsinger1981 this song is about 1916 its not about any other war or anything it dose not dismiss them its just not about them it a song about 1916

  • @bigsinger1981 but it is better to die for freedom than for stupid empires and the english

  • @bigsinger1981 The song is about the easter rising... not other wars

  • @RememberThe1776 ur heads away, he mentions wars in europe ya head bin ye , learn ur history and the lyrics before ya comment, im a prod fs n know more than u gluebegs :P

  • @bigsinger1981 are you retarded kid? the song is clearly about the easter rising.... do you even know what that is?

  • @RememberThe1776 "It was better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud el Bar." ...

    whats that line about ur fuckin idiot , away and learn ur history ya dickhead ..

  • @bigsinger1981 the song is dedicated to the easter rising, not other wars. Are you understanding now? Or is your prod mind to much to understand simple English. I know just about everything about my people's history going all the way back to viking times.

    "It was better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud el Bar." lol you think they "dismiss" other wars because of this line?

  • @bigsinger1981

    Precisely what it says. It would be better to die for Ireland than fighting for Britain in other wars.

    The song is about the Uprising and how many felt the Irish soldiers should have staid home and fought for Independence than go to WW1.

    I am an American living in the midwest, although my heritage is Irish/Scottish/Welsh and I do love this music, it calls to my blood an soul. Point being that I live a lot further from the source and have no trouble understanding the song pup.

  • @ryanmurphysbrain hahaha, ur american scits irish with abit of muslim in ya?? go ahead ya fukin idiot hahahahaha , UR AMERICAN AND ATS IT, jus cause use have no history of ur own dont steal ours, but back to the point, the song says not me, again its better to die neath an irish sky than at sulva or su del bar, whcih means those men dyin where a waste of life, they went a watse the they where sent of to war by cheering crowds of thousands that lined the streets in dublin to send them off,

  • @bigsinger1981

    I honestly didn't understand much of any of that because you apparently can't use the language as well as I can. If you are going to leave comments, learn to write.

    As for American History. Europe is a big part of our history pup. Colonies, immigration, potato famine, these ringing any bells Quasimodo?

  • @bigsinger1981

    “Foggy Dew” was written by Canon Charles O’Neill in 1919.

    This song chronicles the Easter Uprising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than for the British, as so many young men were doing in World War I.

    The Foggy Dew needs to be seen against the political background in Ireland in the aftermath of the Easter Rising and World War I."

  • these songs r so true even now!7

  • these songs always send a shiver down me spine

  • Ilike it and have cast my vote fantastic voice lukey beautyfull vid and the fight for freedom is a noble cause !

  • I have never heard the equal to this song - nor to Luke Kelly. Long live Luke!

  • amazing video!!! excellent but the old video+modern rifles.....if only true, Ireland would have been freed in the 1970's.....Eire Nua Anois!!! Free World!!

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  • me grand dads favourite song, so me sister told me, yeah, he was a rebel, what the fuck is a rebel, when your country is gettin blitzed, an all the political shaggin bollocks,

  • @MrPhilroo123 i get so much anti welsh racism in wales....still keep struggling!!

  • 6 people are huns

  • Lovely to see Luke looking so young & healthy, the voice also so young & high, Magic stuff. He really was a great singer.

  • @themightoftheenglish you say that we got off quite lightly, History would disagree. we had 800 years oppression, even borderline genocide yes you have had troubles in England which I do not agree should have happened, I am amazed the amount of English people who will only look at the last 30-40 years, also the English troops were welcome in the north until bloody Sunday this was a catalyst in Irish History due to the British Armys unnecessary aggression. All innocent lives lost on that day!

  • @Eddieok1980 a lot of shit happened to the welsh and cornish as well. I could list a long list including a cornish genocide in 1420 (apologised for by the church in last few years which was odd)

  • Memories of Poverty and Hardship,

    All The Stars,

    Mike.......

  • Great song,well sung.

  • kelly - a ginger legend that will never be surpassed!

  • Beautiful song. Greetings for all Irish people from Poland!

  • I do believe that this is my very, very favorite version of this song. Tonight is the first time I have heard him sing this but what power, conviction, and strength. It pulls you right into the song itself. 

  • r.i.p luke what a great singer !!!

  • my sympathies, i have visted ireland, and i don't claim to know your troubles,, but the friends i have made while there let me know how they feel,,,im from alabama,,,,,,, god bless ireland...

  • @nickbanjoman sound man,god bless alabama..800 years of english rule has made some of us bitter but time will fix that,and when the brits give us back the north it will end....R.I.P. Luke Kelly....

  • @sideshowdamo as someone living in britain I hope you realise How little we are taught of what happened.......all those oppressive laws against irishmen went on far too long....being from wales....we suffered the same but the wrost oppression stopped in 1536...although the welsh language was still scorned

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  • @sideshowdamo Let the north decide where they belong, now we have to solve our the current issues and elect a responisble, transparent and efficient gov'nt.

  • @sideshowdamo you say when the brits give you back the north, so easy to say ,as if giving the north back would of solved everthing and everything turned rosey and you all hug each other on easter monday and july the 12th, ,you sould count your lucky stars that we did keep the north, because if we had gave you it back, youd of had a civil war to rival ,serbs and bosnians,, plus it would of been your soldiers leaving ulster in body bags ,not ours, and your taxes paying for it all

  • @sideshowdamo you say if we had given it back it would of ended, a million unionists wouldnt of agreed with you, ,it was this country ,and the north of ireland that put up with the 35 years of troubles, not ireland,who got away quite lightly, if 40,000 british couldnt stop the terrorism, at the height of the troubles ,how could 8,000 IDF, in the future ,youd have to tread carefully in a united ireland, knowing your history,nothing is forgotten,and could start up again in future.

  • @nickbanjoman Thats interesting,when will the white squatters give the States back to the Native Americans.I don't think that you are in a position to criticise.considering the history of the southern states and the fight for civil rights.Either you are too young to recall the events or you have a selective memory.Alabama was in the heart of this movement and some people still have a long way to go-as i said its taken decades for black man to lead the country,

  • Respond to this video...I suspect that it will be a cold day in hell before a Native American sits in the White House.There is race who were forced off their land and killed en masse,the ones who survived have had to face discrimination,loss of their culture and thanks to John Ford et al,they were portrayed as the wrongdoers-they saw death,rape.enforced assimilation and loss and land and livelihood and they have never regained it.

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  • greatest IRISH song of all time ! !

  • @lrishRebeI RAGLAN ROAD

  • think luke pierce connoly and connoly be spining in there graves at whats happening in todays ireland

  • @elsheilsio The Brtiish working class organisations have been mostly supportive of Irish self identity. However it was Connoly, instead of standing four square with the Irish workers compromised himself with the Nation State first socialism second carrot. When the establishment, whether blue Tory, or green Tory get in there's no going back only revolution will dislodge them. I revere Connoly's ideals but question his lack of judgement.

  • @parkin157I would agree with this,but you have to bear in mind that ,yes our information was limited but on the other hand,the working classes had social problems all of their own-slavery was abolished long before child labour and the majority lived in abject poverty.Workhouses existed everywhere.Did we know what it was like to be abused ?of course we did,we have as a nation faced invasions.land theft,mass killing,rapes etc,but it was all a long time ago.

  • @TZEITEL10 i agree...but never condescend people with the notion of time and the idea 'its a long time ago'....these things could happen again if people wanted to, there are no physical laws in this universe stopping us.

    Time is irrelevant...what is revelant is that 'justice' is seen to be done and people can come to some agreement

  • wow i just noticed at the end that there all running with F.N's lol, high tech 1920's militia :P

  • brillent pure irish go on ya boy ya

  • Best version ever!

  • @ MalvinMcPot. Before spouting such drivel learn your history. Pope Adrian gave the permission for Ireland to be invaded by king Henry VIII, before he converted. You can't be selective with your history.

  • its different than it once was. cause now Ireland has backup in the US

  • Salute

  • what a great song makes u feel proud to be Irish........ but i think youtube is broken because it says 6 people dont like it that cant be right

  • @MrPaddyboii they were drunk and missed the like......I love Luke Kelly R.I.P. great man.....

  • @MrPaddyboii Proud Protestant they must be? Oop the Rebels. Remember the 16 at Mass on Easter Sunday.

  • @MrPaddyboii  F##kin huns i'd say

  • @MrPaddyboii there ARE englishmen out there, after all...apparently only 7, but still.

  • @MrPaddyboii

    I'm an Englishman with not a drop of Irish blood but if its English idiots dissing the beautiful song for political reasons they are morons. The Dubliners are/were BLOODY MAGNIFICENT.

  • @woodcuttersgypsy Fair play to u mate nice to see there are some English that can appreciate our culture.

  • Beautiful song, poor video. Great man

  • I've played this dozens and dozens of times since I first heard it, and it has never lost its potency. Thank you, Luke. And to machree01 for putting it up.

  • YouTube comments are the most ignorant ones on the net. Ireland is finally at peace. It is a model for the rest of the world. Let's keep it that way.

    As for this tune; it doesn't matter who sings or recites the lyrics, the words give me shivers. It's an incredible piece of poetry. Thanks for posting this version, brother, I haven't heard it before.

  • @brendancrawford02 At peace maybe! but Seanie and Fingers have landed us back in the dark ages. I hope it dosen't take as long to get bach to normal.

    I'm just not sure!

  • @brendancrawford02" Ireland is finally at peace." Listen you know jack shit just this weekend the English stepped up their threat levels for IRA attacks this shit wont be over till they give us NI back

  • @MalvinMcpot

    The vast majority of people who hate the English at the same time neglect what is Irish. It just isn't sufficient.

    The English tried to destroy our way of life, but it's up to us to regain it and live it.

    Partition is bad enough, but put on top of that the majority of the island are still speaking English and are increasingly living in a globalised way of life.

    Even if we did end partition tomorrow, the hopes and aspirations of our dead patriots will still be a long way off.

  • @Northbound89 I concur

  • @Northbound89 To hate the English is fucking absurd and somewhat historically inaccurate. The Scottish were just as guilty.

  • @Freshhhhh1982

    an Gorta Mór, a time of devastation in Ireland. The death and exile of a substantial chunk of the Irish population and the massive destruction of Irish culture.

    Is it still "fucking absurd" to hate the English? Read into it a bit more and the bitterness inside grows.

    The point I was making with my previous comment is that it is more important to embrace a love of Irish than it is to hate the English.

  • @Northbound89 well said.

  • @Freshhhhh1982 Who hates the ordinary english people... its the british establishment that invaded and raped and killed and tortured .... there're still doing it in parts of the world today without the support of the majority of the british people....

  • @Northbound89 you're so right..

  • The Irish were religious warriors long before 9/11.

  • @thallassocracy Every nation have been religious warriors in the past, long before 9/11. Christianity, for example, is one of the most violent religions ever made up. Don't know why this video made you think about 9/11 though... I'm just enjoying Luke's performance.

  • @thallassocracy Talking shite again i see my brit friend.....couldnt be the irish were the same religion as the brits untill the king descided he wanted a divorce and tried to convert the Irish. The Irish said fuck this they took our land, culture and now our religion....dont think so mate the Irish are fighting for their country simple as.

  • @thallassocracy what does that even mean?

  • great song

  • Up the IRA-Let The Fight Go On

  • Heart Like a Wheel. Hope for Peace. Hope for Irish.

  • What they didn't teach you in history class about Germany during World War 2.Germany and the world has been lied to and lied about.

  • i like this version...but...i do prefer the clancy brothers and sinead o conners ft. the chieftans a bit more..this is a bit too too slow, allrit tho

  • this song makes me proud to irish,but more grateful for our forefathers..may they rest in peace under our irish sky

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  • @maelstromscup Only 600 million white people ? What are you smoking. Theres 500 million in the EU alone. Thats not counting European non-member states, Russia, the US, half of South America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and a good portion of central asia. Also when we were fighting for our freedom, Marcus Garvey offered us troops, when we were starving the native Americans and Turks sent us food and money. Racism has no place in my country considering our history.

  • There's something in this version... something that moves the soul.

  • Brilliant Song

    Brilliant Man

    Loves ye Luke XxxX

    LEGEND!!!!

  • I didn't say dev' signed the treaty but he did send Collins over as well as other politicians to do his dirty work.

  • this is beautiful. thank you

  • my soul cries

  • How weird to see Luke with with black hair :)

  • well done luke

  • IRELAND ESTD. 1916

  • @anthonyoshea3308 No... The "Repulic of Ireland" as they call themselves was established in 1921 at the price of selling out the 6 northern counties because Develara had no balls.

  • @Nugget12421 you just made yourself look a complete moran. look up our history books, it wasnt DeValera who signed anything.

    dont get political when you can't even back it up in your first sentence.

    dont make this video another bed for political squabbles!

  • Theres a lot of argument going an about who does the best version of this. Personally I prefer Luke Kelly, but no matter who does it, its the words that get me every time!

  • every morning i wake up

    i thank god im irish

  • @unitedenfree

    I'm an expat living in the US and I think I just found the bumper sticker I was looking for. Cheers!!

  • my cousin used to sign with luke and the dubliners, he has past on now too, a generation lost, but never forgotton, lets hope someone can take the torch soon... i love the furey brothers, who are 3rd cousins off mine also

  • The best Irish republican song, sung by Luke, my friend and sorely missed. Ronnie and Cathal too. loved the days when you came to stay in my house, guys

  • ages of rebellion against the british empire - finally capitulation according to european constitution contract. the irish spirit had to die to let in war and death. ploughshares into swords!

  • huhubin so einsam heute wäre echt klasse falls sich jemand finden würde der mit mir schreiben will

  • Remembering the greatest Irishman of them all, James Connolly, on Easter Sunday.

  • @barcelona36 Well said. He would be rolling in his grave now with the state of the country.

  • Only version that came close to this is sinead o'conner and the cheiftans. Still didnt beat Lukey tho in my opinion!!

  • Goosebumps.Greatest ballad of all time.

  • great song

  • He simply has the voice for singing this song...... no better version of it anywhere.

  • @tarlachmgc I dunno, Sinead O'Connor gave me chills when she sang this.

  • brilliant song to go marching down to castle greyskull

  • thank you!

  • This song makes me cry. I love it so much

  • love the start.

  • does anyone know the other song i think called the foggy dew or wat album its off cant find it!!!!