Luke Kelly – School Days Over (Working Class Ballad)

This is a beautifully poignant song about the terrible way many children were deprived of the chance to enjoy their youthful innocence. It speaks of the young boys who were sent down the mines from a very young age. Many boys were, perhaps, enthused with the idea of joining their fathers, and uncles and older […]

Luke Kelly – The Galway Races (Rousing Irish Ballad)

Here is an Irish ballad to get your spirits soaring. It speaks of the famous horse races at Galway that begin on the last Monday of July each year.  It’s there that fortunes are lost and few if any ever made. There are fine ladies galore and drinkers and thinkers and stinkers and creeps. There […]

Luke Kelly – The Molly Maguires (Miner’s Ballad Of Resistance)

The famed Molly Maguires were a 19th century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool and parts of the Eastern USA. They were organised among the Irish emigres who worked in manual jobs and were perhaps best known as the rebellious coal miners of Pennsylvania. In 1877-88, violent resistance broke out in Pennsylvania between the Molly […]

Luke Kelly – Scorn Not His Simplicity [Folk]

This haunting ballad was written by the Derry song-writer, Phil Coulter, for his disabled child. Coulter was insistent that Luke Kelly should be the one to sing it. He recognized the strength of Luke’s voice and the passion that he would bring to the song. The version here contains some static. There are other studio […]

Irish Folk – Ronnie Drew Sings The Parting Glass

This song of parting is a firm favourite of Rebel Voice. Ronnie’s gravelly rendition adds something special to what is a beautiful song and melody. The imagery is a tribute to the sadly deceased Ronnie Drew, a man sorely missed by those who love folk music. – If you enjoyed this, please share it –

Fionn MacCumhail – Irish Hero Of Ancient World

Here we get to hear the story of Fionn MacCumhail – also known as Finn McCool – as it is narrated by that most solid of Dubliners, (sadly deceased) Ronnie Drew. If you would like to learn more about that name on the pub that you drink in, then this is the audio for you. […]

Dublin In The Rare Old Times – Luke Kelly Version

This haunting and poignant song laments the changes that have taken place in Ireland’s capital city. Here it is performed by one of the greatest singers to have ever breathed the air of Ireland. Get yourself a tissue before listening to this you soppy so and so’s as you’ll need one. This song will getya […]