Ralph McTell – From Clare To Here

This poignant song is about the scourge of emigration that has afflicted the people of Ireland. So many people have been forced from their homes to foreign climes, over centuries and up to the present day, because of the greed, deceit, cowardice and incompetence of too many of our fellow country men and women. Anyone […]

John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads

Ok, ok, before you start screaming about old fogey music, the question must be asked, how many of you with Irish mothers have not heard this song a hundred times from an old radio on the windowsill? This country song became a staple in Irish homes a long time ago. If the lyrics were changed […]

The Guts

Book Review The Guts   by Roddy Doyle For anyone who has read the book, or seen the movie, of The Commitments and enjoyed either, this is the book for you. The Guts is Jimmy Rabbitte’s story. Jimmy has progressed from being the former manager of a failed Dublin soul band to becoming a settled […]

Irish Rebel Songs Under Unionist Threat?

The song below is posted in response to an article in the Irish News today by the Unionist columnist, Newton Emerson from Portadown. In his piece, Emerson suggests that Unionism is going to try to attack the singing of Republican songs, such as the one included here, as a means of opening up yet another […]

MINDRIOT – I see the light

This band from Mitchelstown  (Gaelic: Baile Mhistéala) in County Cork are fairly new on the national scene. We can expect to hear a lot from them in the years ahead, if this great track is anything to go by. Rebel Voice – supporting home-grown music

The Wedding

                           The Wedding   The sheltered grassy haven, encircled by a stream, Caught memories of old, now held in time, Where Elfin folk would play, would dance, their music of a dream, The storied sounds now cast upon a rhyme.   Summer smiles upon her lot and welcomes down the sun, To warm the hearts, […]