Don McLean - No Irish Need Apply / Johnny McEldoo

Uploaded by a slightly drunk 'homelessbrother' on St Patrick's Day at the express request of The Strangest Fan who seems to kinda like Don McLean's music. :-)

Recorded live at 'Siamsa Cois Laoi' (music beside the River Lee) near Cork, Ireland in 1984.

The song was writen in 1862 when there was open racism against irish people. Now it is a historic song from the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_racism

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[vlinder1562]

Thanks for uploading this very rare video. I do like the Irish songs like Molly Malone for instance.

Please upload some more of this wonderful material from the past.

[homelessbrother]

@vlinder1562 Thanks for the comment, Don also sings Mountains of Mourne and Molly Malone in the same concert, must get round to upload these songs too.

[TYBAKERVLOG]

I am not Irish, but a Black man and I think this song a long with other ones that I've heard is so inspirational. I respect the Irish struggle!

[mooninquirer]

There were an extremely small number of jobs were the employer specifically did not want Irish, and these were for personal assistants, especially live-in domestic servants and nannies, and even then, it was from Americans who had come from Britain. It is a myth that these ads were widespread, and there were NO signs saying "No Irish Need Apply." Originally, this song referred to a WOMAN who faced this discrimination, in England.

[mooninquirer]

Employers were VERY eager to hire the Irish en masse for jobs in construction, railroads, mining, etc., in the same way that employers are very eager to hire the MEXICANS of today.

The problem was not the  "No Irish Need Apply" myth, but low wages and poor working conditions. The resentment they faced was NOT from employers, but from other workers, just like there is so much resentment today for Mexicans, because they "are taking the White man's jobs."

[mooninquirer]

@jerry0142 The thing is, you not only believe that "No Irish Need Apply" ads were common ( for Blacks in the South, it was a criminal offense for which the police could be immediately called, if anyone failed to segregate Blacks and Whites, and there was nothing at all like that in America for the Irish ), you ALSO agree with the behavior of the Irishman in this song. You don't realize that THIS SONG actually is a very great discredit to the Irish ---- like gangsta rap is to Black males.

[jerry0142]

@mooninquirer you could be the dumbest person ever. so stupid and ignorant.

[whipthenations]

@fitzemmett075 yeah, the Irish have a pale skin tone so this guy thinks they could not have been persecuted that bad, he does not understand that it isn't a competition on who has had the most 'victimization'. It is not a competition, it is disrespectful to all peoples to treat it in that manner. The rest of europe has been shitting on the the Irish for 1000 years, but they are white so i guess it makes this fact null and void

[fitzemmett075]

@mooninquirer you are an idiot

[monklane]

I've been a Don McLean fan since all the way back then, but I've never seen this before. So I thank you.

[mooninquirer]

@TYBAKERVLOG Why do you respect the Irish struggle ? It is sucking off and very severely diluting the REAL victimization of Blacks in America, not just with slavery, but with the Jim Crow laws and culture surrounding them. Blacks and Native Americans properly have a story of victimization and something to bitch and moan about. The Civil Rights struggle SHOULD HAVE been surgically targeted only to correct the Jim Crow laws, and not an excuse to have every group fighting each other.

[SheaSouffle]

This is absolutely amazing! :D