Sinéad O' Connor - Paddy's Lament

[MManuRere]

This is Sinéad's performance of a song whose content is more Irish-American than strictly Irish -- more than one of my ancestors (including three members of the famous Irish Brigade of the U.S. (Union) Army) came to the U.S. under circumstances more or less identical to those described by the song. (At least they were on the right side of the war they fell into -- though that was probably mostly a matter of chance.)

[hamr3773]

how do you say with proper grammar in Gaelic, "My shillelagh I let fly"?

[MikeMcMikerson]

I really liked this song...until you dedicated it to France..wtf Sinead...wtf..

[sheilaowens55]

In '"The Gangs of New York" (which is supposed to be mostly based on facts) the Irish immigrants were led off the boats and made to sign papers and told they had to go and fight for Lincoln. In one scene part of this song is sung. Singer sounds just like Delores Keane, not sure. Any case, the Irish got the shaft. I'm an American and proud to be of Irish decent. I am ashamed of some things done in my country.

[TheDallasDragon]

I live in Engayland london and i just want to say i fukking hate this place

word engayland make me feel angry

[NightriderPoet]

Beautiful song and she is such a beautiful woman. She does Ireland proud.

[midwestsmoker913]

flogging molly is better

[Fckschoen]

short haired cunt

[GREGwrite]

anyone got the notes of that song?

for piano and voice or sth?

thanks a lot

[norskmus]

And now the irish is fleeing again. This time from banksters.

[pridelic]

i dont y , i just love her voice. For no reason or for too many resons to love her voice.

[spartan5689]

it hits me in the heart it does

[NILLUMS009]

FROM THE HERT ///////////////////

[jayatwell]

has nothing to do with anti war, take your protests elsewhere!

[pogrom1819]

I've heard better versions by Sean Nós singers.. but she does quite a good job. What a sad old song, glad I wasn't around back then, hard fucking times :-(

[canadarox14]

Heartbreaking, but beautiful.

[MrCadorel]

si quelq'un pouvait me traduire ce titre ,ca serait sympa,a bientot:

[orchardlea]

@MrCadorel La lamentation de Paddy (c'est un surnom commun, il vient de "Patrick") La chanson est des malheurs de Paddy .

[mletchbx72]

Wonderfully moving ! Was is it in Lorient Festival ?

[74posy]

I have such feelings for this song. Sinead sings it with such tenderness. I love it.

[PrimaDonna081191]

I have fallen in love with this song. I'm not a big O'Connor fan, but her voice is magnificent.

[bluebirdsin]

Goosebumps.

[newfieshamrock]

tfiocaidh ar la

[Plingpli]

Amazing voice

[oh542545]

@Plingpli

She's a good Paddy !

[SEAMUS666SCOTT]

one of her best poor paddy was a slave well before africa was discovered dont understand the french bit though al they did was let us down & the few that landed got there arses kicked surrendered got returned to france while we got executed

[chizulch4]

get over it for fuck sake!

[jamesdrewry001]

english was the most evil civilisation so it's not surprising, though a lot of people speak it fluently now in ireland all the time so it's made a good comeback though its changed a little :(

[Panczekolada]

I don't think that you're right, friend. They weren't -evil-. Just the only thing they cared about was the British Empire. At the time where human was just a source of income they wanted to have as many -own- people as they could. I don't see anything evil in it. I'd say that france was more evil before britain. Guess my comment will get downgraded but i just wrote what i think.

With sweet and coco respect

-MisterChocolate

[jamesdrewry001]

that's probably the only thing they did care about at the time but throughout history england has been a horrible nation, torturing neighbouring countries like the welsh thats why a lot of welsh people still hold hatred for the english. :(

[Panczekolada]

But don't you think that such predicted hatred is wrong? Like finnish people hate swedish because of their tyranny or black people demanding luxury rights for the discrimination. Example from last days, bunch of black people just beaten down 2 innocent white guys in public place and other ones were happy because of that. People should forget about their animosities after some years or it becomes an idiotic national habit that doesn't lead people to anything good.

With more respect

-MrChocolate

[jamesdrewry001]

indeed, touché

[Panczekolada]

Of course i am not offending anyone. And you see? I got downrated on my comments! Wondering why. Thanks for nice comment exchange, mate. ^^

- MisterChocolate out -

[Nmccarville]

@Panczekolada

but is it right to turn you back on your county you National pride while all the other Celtic Nations fell to England. Ireland is for the Irish NO ONE else the english in history where beyond cruel 750 years of cruelity and the Irish as a culture remembered every slight and in the end it was not voilence that got ireland its freedoms it was World Presure on Britain remember at that time they had just finished a war to free the small countries of europe...

[Nmccarville]

@Panczekolada

The Americans, 3/4 of europe where screaming at Britain to release Ireland or at least come to a compromise. The Irish at the time had down something no ever did to that point brought England to the Negotiation table it only to 50000 Irish dead before that happened Millions more in the last half century its easy to be critical of a people that are fight for home and country .

[Nmccarville]

@Panczekolada

but my own Great Grand Father watched as his uncle was beaten to death with hurling sticks wife raped and the older boys sent to jail their was no justice to the irish and the english got away with it. The Only difference between England (in History not presently) and the Nazi Germany was that the English had better PR.

"If their was a tear shed for every wrong done to Ireland you would soon have enough tears to fill a large lake"

[SinnFein4ever]

Take comfort in this:

Durring WWII, England was bombed day and night by the Germans; and London burned, and its streets ran red with British blood.

Not used to a fair fight, they took heavy causualties on the continent as well.

After the war, their empire was brought to its knees.

And accross the globe, countries from Africa to the Middle-East, to the new world, rose up and drove them out.

And in 1961, an Irish-Catholic man became president of the mightiest country on Earth.

[Nmccarville]

Poetic justices indeed my friend and that Clinton forced Briton to to come to terms with Ireland.  I mean that if Northern Ireland ever votes more then 50 percent in favor of unity with the south that Briton must comply or face the resulting punishment... My family descends from the O'Carrols and the Kings of Ely.

[SinnFein4ever]

Durring the An Gorta Mor, they may have starved one-fourth of us to death, and forced half of the survivors to leave for the new world, but that was their undoing

We are tens of millions strong across the world...

From the U.S.A. to Canada, to Australia, to New Zealand, and beyond, we far outnumber them now.

Many of us have risen to positions of power in these countries.

By the end of WWII, the Irish voice in America was so strong, that England was forced to free two-thirds of Ireland.

[CALIFORNIASAM2]

@SinnFein4ever yeah thats true in 1961 an irish-catholic man became president and then in 1963 he got shot lol, you stupid bastard what is so fucking funny about people in london like men women and children being bomed and burnt to death huh?, i am american but look what our country has done to inocent people in their own countries, you evil bastard you should die of cancer.

[Bmanassgrabber]

Sinead......our lament...a powerful cry against bigotry and ensalvement...the North, the ideal? Bah! Slavery is NOT a black only story...............can we heal all of our suffering?

[kagillogly]

On landing in NY at the time of the U.S. Civil War, Irish were drafted into the northern forces with the promise of a pension and citizenship. They were still ostracized and discriminated against.

Still going on in the U.S. today - there are a lot of U.S. immigrants in the U.S. Armed Forces overseas.

[BenAliGtor]

In December of 1862, Federal commander Major General Ambrose Burnside launched a futile assault against emplaced Confederate works on Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg. Wave after wave of Federal regiments were massacred- the courage of the Irish Brigade thus became legend.

Robert E. Lee paid tribute to the valor of his foes, the Irish in Federal blue: It is well that war is so horrible, lest we become too fond of it.

[ShoshanaSki]

Gernans fighting Stalingrad were the best soldierst ever.

[Makolki]

Maybe, but we´ve lost. Tiocfaidh ár lá for the fighting irish!

[bb41476]

Is that why they were defeated at Stalingrad?

[billionear]

I was thinking the very same thing?

I.R.A. loved their work.

[forfexake]

its called paddys lament, google the lyrics,, its an old irish song.

[gpwhitem]

"I speak better french than Irish, but that's because of the brits."

Can someone please explain what this means? I'm from America, I know so little....

[grogscol]

Could be something to do with the English occupation of Ireland for 800 years and the suppression of the Irish Language & Culture - "an fáth".

[ImagesByDavid]

British occupied all of Ireland for 800yrs in that time. The Irish were sent all over the world as slaves. Hundreds of thousands in fact. The great Famine (Potato failure in Europe) in which Britain kept exportin whatever food was produced out of Ireland. When Germany & France stop the exports of food in their own countries. That led to 1 million Irish dead. U have the Penal Laws similar to laws that the Nazis gave the Jews. A combination of all this led to the decline of the Irish language.

[TinyArts]

@ImagesByDavid And we Scandinavians crushed the brits. The vikings also founded Dublin.

[ImagesByDavid]

@TinyArts

Where did the Brits crush the Scandinavians and the Vikings came and we kick them up and down Ireland.

[TinyArts]

@ImagesByDavid I'm just messing, don't wanna argue with an irishman. We Scandinavians like the irish alot. Our cultures has alot incomen. Cheers

[ImagesByDavid]

@TinyArts

Im messing too buddy!...but us natives didnt lie down to the Vikings or the British. The 50% Celt in you will understand the other 50% Viking will just have to understand. 

[1878EFC2008]

@TinyArts

The few times you actually faced a British ARMY you got mullered. Look up the battle of Stamford Bridge for an example.

You launched raiding parties on tiny villages with thousands of men, and that's the only times you got a result.

Equal numbers and you were battered.

[brewers97]

@TinyArts

from an AMERICAN of Irish descent. yes you did, but only after you had knelt to Brian the High King of Ireland, or more specifically his 6yr old son! Ya lost there boyos........get over it. And by they way ya didnt stand too long to Nazi Germany either. If only our Atlantic Fleet had stood by Norway. The Nazi bastatrds would not have liked the sting of USS NY, MA, Washington, Idaho....and 3 heavy fleet carriers, USS Saratoga, Lexington, and Yorktown

[MrThingy3]

when ireland was colonised by britain they imprisoned or killed anyone who spoke english instead of irish,and as a result the irish language died out,to this day english is now irelands spoken language,irish is taught in schools the same as french or german!

[MartinaBC1963]

Fantastic!

[Seanoneill1916]

Powerful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[WAIHARARA2007]

she has a haunting voice that draws you back to the ole people of ireland

[pinacoladathe5th]

"I speak better French than Irish, but that's coz of de Brits, goodnight"

ahahahahahaha fair play to ye lassie, fair play

=) =) =) =)

[hanklease3]

Wicked Awesome!

[Chicagoan444]

Love this song, and the way she sings it. I think of this song as coming from the American Civil War,although I don't know if it dates from that time. It's a perspective of that war in particular that we don't generally hear, from that of the immigrant who got caught up in that war and suffered for it. Good anti-war song in general . . .

[molealto]

I believe it is an American Civil War song.

[mosesmcmillian]

@Chicagoan444 without a cop ? do u know a native american who calls Paddy ?? all u're cops are irish and u're thieves italians or nigger

[lleidabizarre]

When was that recorded???? last year maybe???

I love her voice here!!!

[skladanowski]

I'm not going into translation of this song. U tell me what Paddies are thankful to French. Besides the phoney help of 1798.

[pinacoladathe5th]

eh?

[cullybog87]

maith an Cailin

[sdrotch]

sinéad o' connor ti adoro!!!!

[lapalissiano]

anche io!!!!!!!!!!!

[duende772]

sinead eres lo mejor que ha dado irlanda para el mundo, que viva irlanda como mexicano lo digo

[duende772]

sinead eres lo mejor que ha dado irlanda para el mundo, que viva irlanda como mexicano lo digo

[LATANAteam]

one of the best singer of ever!!!

[BardofCornwall]

Very powerful.

[joseslomalos]

Wow... one of my favorites... from a brilliant album... beautiful voice, as ever.