Brendan Ring at Nighttown Sings for St. Patricks Day II

Brendan Ring, owner of the world-famous restaurant and jazz club, Nighttown, in Cleveland, Ohio, singing an Irish folk song, the Ballad of Billy Reid, on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2008

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Irish
• Ireland
• Nighttown
• St.
• Patty's
• Day
• dirge

[muintir]

Somebody tell Brendan Ring that Billy Reid was 32 years of age when he died not 19 on 15th May 1971 - great ballad

[jimbocool]

P.S. the age and the date don't matter a fuck... it is the meaning behind it.

Jim Mackessy

Main St,

Castlelyons,

Co.Cork,

Ireland

and a foot note ..... De Valera was a yank and he alot about it....

[jimbocool]

They think they have forseen it all .... the fools! the fools! the fools!, they have left us our Fenian Dead,... and while ireland holds their graves ..... Ireland unfree shall never be at peace!!!!!!!!

[jimbocool]

They think they have forseen it all .... the fools! the fools! the fools!, thye have left us our Fenian Dead,... and while ireland holds there graves ..... Ireland unfree shall never be at peace!!!!!!!!

[knocknagree100]

Billy Reid was 32 when he was killed in action!!And he died in 1971 not 1974 you yank gobshite!!

[rocknesgirl]

yuck89 you're a jackass! The singing/in the middle (Brendan) IS from Ireland.

[yuck89]

yanks know fuck all about anything in Ireland.