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The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem introduced me to their brand of music about 1976 --- when we were all a lot younger. We may have aged, but their beautiful music has not!

What a voice! No one ever can sound like the Man In Black!

Great version of a great song!

I had heard other people sing this song and have always enjoyed it. I had no idea that it was a Eric Bogle song, and had no idea of its origins.

What a great songwriter/singer this man is! Love it!

Haven't heard this song before, but now it is in my Favourite's list. Well done Ralph McTell, you just get better with age!

@grannydyess Can't say I know Billy Bob Thornton's version of events, but like so many things in the past of all countries, the story of the Alamo has been captured and prostituted by other people to suit their own ends! I live in Australia, and we suffer from the same distortions of history. Tha...

In 1969, I was a young flight steward with QANTAS Airways and I can still remember the first time I heard this song! I was sitting in the crew bus at Kennedy Airport waiting for transport into the Lexington Hotel. Suddenly, over the audio system in the bus I heard Simon & Garfunkel singing :The B...

In keeping with the background of many Australians, my own background is cosmopolitan and involves English, Welsh, Irish and Danish. My Danish grandmother married my Irish grandfather but sadly he died of blood poisoning just before I was born in 1945. Some of the Irish obviously rubbed off on my...

As child of the Sixties, I grew up with this song. It is so sad that when I listen to the music of today, I cannot hear any voices or melodies than can, in any way, compare!

I first heard of Mary Hamilton when I read James Mitchener's "The Drifters" in the early 1970's. Part of the lyrics featured in that beautiful book, and I always wondered what the story was behind the lyrics. A few years ago, I found a shorter version by Joan Baez on You Tube and it started to ma...

Just love this great version of Killybegs!

I have heard this song in the past but did not realise its significance until four weeks ago when I stood on "death row" in Kilhainham Gaol and the guide told me the story of the last minute (and so poignant) marriage of Grace and her husband. A great version by Jim McCann!

The smooth and wonderful Paddy Reilly used to be my favourite Irish singer, but the more I listen to Jim McCann, the more conflicted I become!

I want this version of Carrickfergus sung at my funeral! Not next week, of course!

I love this great song as I am of Irish heritage, but my wife always interprets it literally and hates it! She seems to think the silly old woman is quite happy to see her husband, sons and grandsons sacrificed to save her stupid cow paddocks! Then again, my wife's ancestors are Scottish, so what...