Wolfe Tones - Flight of Earls

[28larss]

From the The Dublin City Ramblers Album "Flight of Earls"- 1987

Tommy does a great rendition of this song, but Patsy Watchorn would be the favored singer of this ballad, as it was wrote by Liam Reilly of Baggatelle to suit the distinctive vocal that is Patsy's of The Dublin City Ramblers...

However, The Wolfe Tones are a GREAT GREAT GREAT band!

[thomasthetiger]

Eastern Germany sharing the destiny of the Irish since 20 years - we export our best too. But the Irish will come back once to their native land. It will not happen to us.

[dinnydcoyle]

reminds me of me da

[pat30473]

i was at a tones gig...and after was lucky enough 2have a pint with the lads...then they kindly signed the cd id brought and my ireland flag...which now hangs proudly on my living room wall....:)

[mememe535]

Lovely song but leaves a lump in my throat. So many of us have found ourselves in this situation recently and had to leave the land and people we love for work... Better times ahead hopefully.

[mememe535]

Lovely song but leaves a lump in my throat. So many of us have found ourselves in this situation recently and had to leave the land and people we love for work... Better times ahead hopefully.

[cinder13]

the lines we have brainsetc does that meanthe ones that left earlier had none.we endeuer a lot more than hardship. we made it easy for ye.so remember us when ye come here

[CredoCatholicJournal]

Please don't emigrate.

[angryadams]

@CredoCatholicJournal Not many other options unfortunately. 

[peaderod]

Left Ireland 2 years ago. In Alberta Canada now. Hopefully that plane will be going back again some day, but not for a few more years I think.

[FreedomSaoirse]

@peaderod Hope your working on the oil sands

[DOOLINJOHN]

he we go again lads , leaving home again im in nyc , john

[Tamita83]

My Dad loved this song.

[SouthDownIPLO]

i love the wolftones so much and always will

[coletteconroy]

brilliant just briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliant :D

[bickiej]

me bro is off to aussi dis mornin for a better life! :(

this song is soo sad :(

[johnrshelley]

I was an "Earl" in 1986. Came home in 1994. In 2010 the "Earls" will be leaving again and for many years to come :(

[solas2009]

c'mon the banner ! YEEUUU!

[cannonman123]

ikno this song from my parents partys wen i was like5 its nuts ifound it

[FutureMcGinty]

I know I'm gonna come off as stupid, but they look so young

[machree01]

It was 22 years ago/

[FutureMcGinty]

told u i'd sound stupid

[machree01]

You weren't stupid, they were in their 40s, and they or still going strong.

[HelenSSpencer77]

Another great one from machree01! What would we do without you. This is amazing. Keep 'em coming...please!

[ianno23]

For those of us who grew up with times back in the 80s and music like this from the one and only wolfe tones i think excepted everything we got and i also think times back then were great because we didnt have much.

Yes we all enjoyed the boom but maybe people will except the tough times now also

[AranGalactico]

Are you serious? 'expected', dont you mean 'accepted'? Jesus, I hope you dont have an important job, its no wonder our country is in a shit if people cant spell basic words like that.

[rathdeort2008]

''Our best asset is our best export too''

The Irish so derided in the darker corners of Britain built the roads, dams and canals. 700,000 Scots are of direct Irish descent and a national celebration of immigration at the Museum of Scotland summed the Irish up thus: ''They came to Scotland after the famine and were a great draw on the poor law.'' That was it, no mention of them building the country! Negative stereotypes and bigotry was their reward for lives of unremitting labour and hardship.

[Tobytrim]

Great comment - Well made!

[BADGERBUT]

Need to check your history

[Noddy1690]

Gllasgow was a great city untill it was flooded with Irish drunks.

[eddiebarr99]

A real shame the flight of the Irish is once again with us.But when people get too greedy and price themselves out of work,it can only end one way...

[liampett]

this time we are not being force out by our own fault ,but by E.E.C laws and the goverment allowing to many imergrants in and forceing us to seek a better life in far of fields again god save Ireland because at this rate no one else will

[Milford06]

Great song but sad to see it is all happening again the flight of the Irish will we ever have peace.

[josparkes]

Beautiful !

[josparkes]

Love it !

[slats1212]

I must have seen these guys 15 times in Boston. Good Craic!

[josparkes]

You are so lucky ,I live in Norfolk, and never saw them perform. They are retired so I won't now, boo hoo !

Still I can get a CD and get U Tube

[jonga1972]

no have'nt retired they still play i watched them in ireland when i went home last year and watch them in rossendale near where i live in burnley this year in august september time

[josparkes]

oh that's good, they are a fantastic band.

Derek Warefield left so someone said.

[jonga1972]

Yeah derek has his own band now we went to watch them at a pub in preston that we travel up to celtic games with a few year back they just as good and play alot of the tones stuff mate

[josparkes]

That's good, someone else said that they haven't retired as yet.Jolly good band, love to hear them sing.

I have heard just 2 of the band sing, and play in a song(forgotten which one now) and it was lovely. Was in a room somewhere ? Sorry to sound so forgetful !

My age you know - Female, of 59

[josparkes]

So beautiful, I love this song !

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

2/3/09

[cathal627]

Is there a lag in the sound or something??

[machree01]

Hi Cathal, when i uploaded it in 2007, it was perfect, but with the "Youtube team" changing things around, it has knock'd the sound back, only for a split second

[josparkes]

Brilliant I love this song.

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

9/2/2009

[RinceBox]

1987? How history repeats itself.... Another wave of job losses here now and soon to be exodus of young, educated Irish ppl away from home.

[josparkes]

Hi RinceBox ? Yes I heard on the radio recently that jobs in Ireland are being lost, and it is the same in Norfolk, and all over the place. I hope everybody can cope, in Ireland. How are you doing ?

Sincerely

Irish music addict

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

9/2/2009

[irishrover1967]

yep and for all us who dont have the best education we have no fuckin choices i say we burn the establishment to the ground WHOS WITH ME

[josparkes]

Hi Irishrover1967

Everybody has something to contribute in this life, we are all valuable in our own way, but I know it can be very hard sometimes to feel positive when things are not going too well. I am sure things will get better, take care.

[johnrshelley]

@RinceBox

I left Ireland in 1986 came home in 1994. My father left Ireland in 1950's came home in the 70's. YES it is going to happen again :(

[josparkes]

Wonderful song by the great Wolfe Tones

Love it !

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

4/2/2009

[kevinmcq1916]

brilliant

[kevinmcq1916]

brilliant

[babes1888]

Get in there Bhoy xxx suck it 2 them xxx

[josparkes]

Just gorgeous absolutely gorgeous, get me a flight to The Emerald Isle ! !

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

21/1/2009

[fallsrdbhoy]

i love bagatelle and liam reilly in particular. he also wrote streets of new york and boston rose for the tones, a very very talented man!! erin go bragh

[josparkes]

This a fantastic song, I really love it, it'w WOW simply great sound. The Irish have a huge talent for composing wonderful tunes !

Merry Xmas all

Norfolk

21/12/2008

[josparkes]

I love this song, beautiful tune, and I love the banjo playing, and the flute, what a cracking tune though.

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

8/12/2008

[josparkes]

Lovely song, I have only heard Paddy Reilly sing this before, this is a lovely lovely song.

Love it

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

7/12/2008

[papakintal]

Great song and perfomance!

[MySelf2282]

This song suggests that recent emigrates, here going to Australia (Queensland/New South Wales), left Ireland with a heavy heart and were sad to go. I wonder why, then, they went. Obviously years ago people were fleeing extreme poverty, mass unemployment, and so on, but in recent years there has not been such issues. The Wolfe Tones, and millions of others, stayed didn't they? Or do people think those who stayed have had great hardship and difficulty in Ireland over the last 20 or 30 years?

[thelostlollipop]

Em thats an interesting point you make there!!I think in the past people left Ireland because they had no other choice. However many people leave Irealnd now for a year out after completing college,university or apprenticeships.Things have been good here for the past 10 years or so and people had extra money so thats the option many young people had taken!

[ardeestephen100]

We had a boom for the last 14 years. Nobody needed to leave. Now there's no work, looks like people will be leaving again

[Burlywurl]

Simply loved this! Thanks for this great post.

[TioDonTomas]

You are still the same lad you were, just older and wiser. Return to your motherland, it is still waiting for you. It needs you. Europe needs you.

Greetings from Spain ;) .

[blahblahblah85]

What about the convicts 2 Australia-they never got back and their decendants talk proudly of their irish heratige. In 1830 one third of ozzees were of irish decent.

[lrishRebeI]

Ace song, i love to a bits. 5*****

[NSResponder]

AARGH! I hate it when YouTube botches the video like this.

Great song, though.

-jcr

[josparkes]

This a lovely song, but I do agree with you, the way It is all in the centre of the screen does spoil the video. and it's not as loud as it should be.

Fantastic song and tune though. Who wrote the words and music, do U know ?

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

15/12/2008

[machree01]

It was written by Liam Reilly who plays with the group Bagatelle.

[josparkes]

Thanx for that reply, it is nice to know the writer of a song.

Great band, and great song too.

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

1/1/2009

[josparkes]

What an extraordinary talent. Lovely song by the fantastic WolfeTones.

Love this.

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

21/1/2009

[tynetec]

not a bit of it my friend, the irish is always in you, there will always be a door open for you.

[wilmaohman]

in my opinion the best group to come from ireland was ronan,andrew and john,the irish tenors.this group is great also

[wolfetonesfan]

Cracking Tune from the Bhoys

[kookooo1]

All the fenians left ireland and vowed never to return.

God riddens

[johnrshelley]

oxfordeddie,

in the light of your comment 5 months ago, now eat your words !

[RICH1066]

WOLFIE THE PRODDIE ???

[brizzy7man]

magic.

[jimdoyles]

great stuff

[DOOLINJOHN1]

history is repeating it self things are bad here too , i left ireland in  1987 , london for 10 years and nyc now the wolftones made the journey short, the greatest rebble band ever!!

[dripsey3]

I remember the 80s. I hope we don't see mass emigration like we did back then. I remember 4 people leaving my village to go the US, they haven't returned since. This song reminds me of them.

[ShaneRoe85]

My brother likes this song aswell he left Ireland to in the 80's. Him and his friends sing this too in London, But lucky for him he can go back to Ireland, in which a sad case alot of Irish in America can't go back to Ireland

[rutlandplace]

Many an earl has taken a flight from Ireland.Its the cab They want all your money.

[oejrrr]

gr8 song from a gr8 band

[vix121]

I was 11 when i left Ireland 18 years ago. I can you all someting, you and take the man out of the country but you can't take the country out of the man

[weeluke1985]

bollox!

[rebel3redz]

best irish band evr!!!!!!

[eamon000]

no irish wanted in this land find a new country to live in God bless

[spaboyle]

wanker

[oxfordeddie]

I personally wouldn't say that the Wolfe Tones would be in my top 1,000 bands but I'm curious to read all the comments about Ireland going down the toilet. It is practically the wealthiest country in Europe and so different from the times that these chancers are singing about!!!

[Seamus616]

That only happend in the past 10/15 years. up to the 80s the irish were forced to leave thier country.

[spntobg19]

this was song about the 80's in ireland when the country had no jobs or infrastructure, so its about history just like that song "britannia rules the waves" couldnt fuckin rule a football match.... chancers????

[jjmmm]

fuk youre queen

[johnrshelley]

dugsie,

Unfortunately you are right. Things are going bad here again. I will not be going this time. Married and settled. Have to hope I will still have work and will get through. Best of luck whatever you do or wherever you go

[sloppy1212]

u 2 has nothin

[sloppy1212]

I wish the old man re grouped with the wolftones. i would actually move back home from boston. strangely enough i was born here in tonw.

[dmcpromotions]

The best band ever bar none. No one to touch the mighty Wolfe Tones! And they are still packing out venues around the world after almost 45 years!!! Unreal...don't listen to the media in RTE or Irish newspapers, The Wolfe Tones are Ireland's most popular group.

[machree01]

Well said.

[DaraghPhelan]

i completed all the wolfe tones albums they realy have only produced one album in the last 18 years, the rest are jsut compilations...it's poor!!

[Yealdin]

Phelan eh? I'm a Whalen, one of the spelling variations of Phelan, so greetings from an American cousin. =) ;-)

[DaraghPhelan]

Ye they always call my dad whealan, even though its phelan!!what part of Ireland do you originate or your family originate from?

[cfc07]

there you'll never beat the irish album is mostly new material and also there troubles album contains alot of new material inculding lament for the lost,song of partition,tyrone,fermangh and this is the day and also quite a few songs that they never recorded songs like the patroit game,bloody sunday,go on home,danny boy,star of the county down,green glens of antrim, county of aramgh and the orange and the green, so they have produced alot of new material in the last few years

[johnrshelley]

I was one of the earls referred to ('86-'94). Thankfully I'm home now.

Song sums it everything I felt and went through

[johnnybhoy1]

ACH WELL GHOOD LHUK 2 YHA

[dugsie]

Shame its all happenin again,I love my country but I have to leave,no work left for me,glad you made it home,hope you live like a lord.

[DaraghPhelan]

realy starting to love this song first sung by the dcr who done a great job with it also

[larrson87]

best rebel band ever ,class act.

[dmcpromotions]

Not just the best rebel band ever, the best band ever!

[1wuffy]

Great voices. This video makes me proud I was born into the "Wolfe" clan. Thanks. I Wish I were in Ireland tonight.

[CelticWarrior4u]

Me too !!

[kerrygold1916]

Grumpy Noel. 100%

[WhenNYWasIrish]

One of the all-time great bands! Timeless..

[mac1916]

time to go home

[CelticWarrior4u]

Oh, if only.......

[johnfinbarburke]

love this

[skimorgan]

living in the U.S. this hits home...thank you!!!! ( i live in boston 11 years now)

[Fioneenacockeen]

Great stuff,,thanks for posting this

[gaelicstorm]

wolfe tones are awesome

[fenians1798]

love this song how the years have gone,i was 22 in 1987, when i first heard this song, brings back many memories,

[cuskey22]

sme

[OConnell77]

fair play to ya machree..... more power to ya

[dugsie]

pity its all happening again,20 of us together in London now cant get a decent wage for a decent days work at home

[ILoveMyDuck]

love this song

[machree01]

I recorded it in 1987, when the "Wolfe Tones" were on The Late Late Show, RTE 1987. They were promoting their new Album "Sing Out For Ireland". It was their last original Album that the Four done togather.

[TheDyingRebel]

when was this recorded?

[bedoboy]

Have never seen this as I was only wee and not the super fan I am now, miss Derek for his music skills, not his talking skills on stage, just sing the song. LOL

[lorgain2]

Thanks Mchreeo1, a good oul number.

[Conall06]

a must say the lads hasnt changed much in looks and defintly in performance and heart and soul. they still give everything to their music!!

[ispini1]

If only it was their music to worry about.

[Conall06]

wats that suppost to mean dont really get ye there hi!