Irish music
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Either Salford or Manchester. Written by Ewan McColl, famous joyless communist.
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I think that The Green Fields of France is regarded as an "Irish song"? Certainly famous Irish recordings, and a very Irish theme about a young Irish lad going off to fight, and die in, the Great War.
Except it was written in 1976 by Eric Bogle, an Australian singer-songwriter who was born in Scotland, it refers to a Scottish folk tune (The Flowers of the Forest), and the name of the soldier, Willie McBride was simply a convenient rhyme for "grave side", and the writer also wanted to give the soldier an Irish name as a counter to the anti-Irish sentiment prevalent in Britain at the time.
He also wrote And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, another anti-war song, (worth looking for) which is clearly not Irish in story line, but does it become an Irish song when performed by Liam Clancy or Christy Dignam or The Pogues?
The Uilleann pipes are Irish.
It was Salford iirc
They were developed from bagpipes so they couldn’t be played while marching into battle and frighten the English foe. Bagpipes had been banned for that reason.
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the Uilleann pipes are Irish as they were developed in Ireland and are considered the national bagpipes of Ireland.
The Uilleann pipes are Irish.
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An interesting fact that the bagpipes we associate with Scotland originate from Egypt. Scotland developed the great highland bagpipe many years later which is why we associate them with Scotland,
They were the One Direction of their generation
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Put it down to me being delirious until I can get my leg fixed, bare with me.
