Top 3 Most Important Irish Songs 🇮🇪

[@davyholden]

My New E-Book is now available!! davyholdenhistory.com/

[@Iink_0]

See I always thought of the song Fairytale of New York, Probably bc of the Music
IN SAYING THAT THO the song isn’t historical, Although it is a good song that I hope will go down In History

[@scottmccluremcclure3916]

RIP Shane McGowan

[@The_Joker_]

You’re an inspiration Dave 👌🇮🇪☘️

[@recordshopuk1202]

Song of Dawn and Kathleen Largey need a mention sometime.

[@mattiasfaldt1725]

i can understand your free state perspective what is the most importen irish songs is diffrent to northen part of ireland . songs like Provos lulluby or Blackwatch . The list can make long songs from the the northen Ireland perspectiv.

[@globeparasite9381]

Kinky boots
Kinky boots extended version
Kinky boots orchestral version

[@kevindowling157]

It’s really not that popular or common to hear here. I like it don’t get me wrong but its significance isn’t really remarkable

[@MadDogRyan]

​@crappypoopyfr

[@heyheyhophop]

wait, there is an extended version? anyone got the link?

[@Rebellescum]

@@heyheyhophopthere’s also the Ibiza chill out version

[@heyheyhophop]

@@Rebellescum oh gawd, have to unsee now

[@janewrin1830]

Fields of Athenry - tells of a terrible injustice. Sung it all my life.

[@RowdyBrian17]

I'm surprised I had to scroll so far to find this

[@canadiancossack3316]

Also a great choice

[@janewrin1830]

@@RowdyBrian17 I think it could be a generational thing.

[@Timberdoodle197]

Injustice 😂

[@rambo1872]

Low lieeeee

[@Exsultxn4]

3. Amhrán an bhFiann
2. Óro sé do Beatha bhaile
1. Come out ye Black and Tans

[@sarahholden8814]

Dude come out ya black and tans is such a great song

[@Exsultxn4]

@@sarahholden8814 i know right!

[@snoqueen313]

I had Foggy Dew with Come Out Ye Balck & Tans as a 4th

[@GuyFromFloridaFL]

@@sarahholden8814fr

[@Weir436]

Come out ye Black and Tans is a stolen orange tune😂

[@alancrust]

In Mexico we love the song "Saint Patrick's Battalion". Thanks irish brothers in arms, we lost, no comparison to give a fight, but still, gracias !

[@The_Hartofect_]

Don’t loose hope in Mexico St. Juan Diego bless this country and the people. May they return to blessed Our Lady Guadapule. God bless you all!

[@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910]

🇨🇮 💚💚🇲🇽👍🙂

[@robertmcdonald8342]

I like "The Soldiers Song". Also what about "The Wind that shakes the Barley"?

[@Basketballamerican]

you need to go El Salvador on your cartels

[@CaptStraightEdge]

It's tight but The Foggy Dew should be on there

[@MojangOfficial783]

Finnigan’s wake is the most historically significant🗿

[@nonamegrey1331]

Black and Tans is pretty cool too

[@jamiefarrelly7690]

​@@MojangOfficial783 why, because of Joyce? Doesn't really come close to the historical importance of Skibereen, an dórd feinne, grace, amhrainn na bhfiann, fields of athenry, the valley of knockanure, etc. Doesn't even make the top 15 of historical importances really, unless there's something about it that I'm missing?

[@lisajimenez5684]

Foggy dew

[@user-xh4fr9et2c]

The craic was ninety

[@yourmumsbelt2638]

I played Oro Se do Bhetha bhaile as an ensemble with two trombones (I'm the first trombone), a trumpet , tuba, and snare drum and got ones at ensemble contest. I'm now in love with Irish folk music.

[@davyholden]

Haha amazing. Love that!

[@silvergirl2847]

My favorite we all learned it in school .would love to hear your version 😊

[@jabber67]

🍀

[@yourmumsbelt2638]

@@silvergirl2847 I wish I would've recorded it I've now lost that score because of some chaos in the last weeks of school (our band director got fired)

[@triodehexode]

Tomorrow belongs to me? That's a Nazi favourite perhaps the IRA bigwigs sang it on the U boat during WW2.

[@mattpardy2826]

1. Come out ye Black and Tans
2. The Foggy Dew
3. Horse outside

[@SweetSirenia]

Thank you for including the national anthem, even though you listed it third

[@jawd1203]

I agree

[@rodchallis8031]

The Drop Kick Murphy's turned "Fields of Athenry" into a song of defiance, and it gets me everytime.

[@jamesogle5415]

My lovely horse? Anyone else?

[@joegreen2750]

Fanfintastic an absolute masterbloodypiece, I have enquired where I can purchase the sheet music for this rose of songs in a bouquet of mediocre weeds.

[@Hibernica1641]

Thank you! Finally, someone speaks the truth!

[@RadioNul]

Is it never of the air

[@PORRRIDGE_GUN]

F*ck Your Subaru, I've Got A Horse Outside by the Rubber Bandits

[@TheGWR0-4-0]

True

[@jeanier7185]

Hearing Sinead O’Connor singing number 2…what a spiritual experience!!🙏RIP Sinéad

[@GerryBolger]

Dude, The Foggy Dew.... If we had to replace Amhrán na bhFiann I'd choose The Foggy Dew without question. Sinead O'Connor's version just solidifies it as the quintessential Irish song in my humble opinion.

[@cathanmccann1769]

Personally I think the best version which strikes with passion is Lukes Kelly's

[@stiofanofirghil1916]

For me it should be the national anthem instead mo chara..The longer version that mentions 7 tongues of flame..

[@nutpeg6915]

the young wolfe tones foggy dew is brilliant

[@BadDubII]

Luke Kellys is better imo

[@user-xh4fr9et2c]

Yes Luke Kelly's version is great

[@kunduzhospitalhater]

I think my list goes something like this:
1. Rising of the moon and variations.
2. Garryowen.
3. And any song made by the Wolfe Tones or Irish Brigade.

[@plymouth491]

"Go On Home, British Soldiers," should get an honorable mention.

[@geist33w]

“Don’t you got no focking homes of your own”

[@a3srevenge683]

My man looks like he hasn’t slept the past millennia 💀

[@randoiguess]

Nah, that's just how people from Kilkenny look.

[@Nick-ic8vn]

Or been to a decent barber

[@CelticNorseGaelJewishDescent]

He be a weepy-eyed lad!

[@MooSaidChicken]

Nah he's just irish. I look the same, plenty of Scots-Irish DNA from usa 😂

[@piping9153]

Looks Irish indeed

[@felipetierno9515]

1 - The rising of the moon
2 - Oró se da beatha bhaile
3- Four green fields

[@YellowFressia]

Love your choices @davyholden, the other two listed here are so special too. I think these are often forgotten.

[@YellowFressia]

Great choices! 👍

[@davyholden]

Great choices!

[@joshmaxwell7968]

Kid on a mountain

[@IvanPlayyz]

​@@davyholdenwhat about zombie by the Cranberries, it is one of the most known Irish songs and explains a tragedy caused by the Irish Republican Army

[@dbsmic5709]

In no particular order
3. God save ireland
2. A nation once again
1. A soldiers song

[@blackbarnz]

In America "Dear Old Donegal" is the quintessential immigrant tune. It's not specifically about Irish history. It's about being successful in America, but being homesick for Ireland & dreaming of going back home to Ireland to share their success w/ loved ones. My grandfather loved this song. I would listen to it w/ him, but the entire time I didn't realize what it was about & that he must have been homesick himself. Broke my heart when I finally realized what the song was about, but by then he was gone.

[@stiofanofirghil1916]

Dún na nGall, or my old Irish home as I know it as because I'm now living in Scotland..

[@Stardustpal25]

Thank you for sharing your memories. I think your Grandfather would be proud to know you are remembering him. 🤗 🫂🇺🇲

[@donaldwilson2548]

Thanks you so very very much for this video, it made me start to cry. The music jusy punches me in my heart. I'm a Wilson, I'm a 5th generation Scottish American. However, before my mother passed away in 2000, she told me to find my cousin's in Ulster. It will make me proud to find my Wilson family in Ulster. ThankYou, Regards, Donnie Wilson, Ulster Scot.
relayives on Ulster

[@xanderschwab2840]

-Oró, Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile
-Foggy Dew
-Joe Mcdonnell
There are many more I would love to put but these three always stand out to me but on top of these songs I also like to listen to songs such as Irish Volunteer or the Boys That Wore The Green as they remind me of the contribution of the Irish people in America long live the Green Flag of Erin and a free Ireland

[@TheMadnessWorld]

In Argentina we love the song to the Admiral Brown 🇮🇪 🇦🇷

[@TheMadnessWorld]

@@benchilton1391 no, is because like the Irish we face whoever comes to fuck with us no matter how big or powerful they are, we also reject imperialists

[@TFinna]

@@TheMadnessWorldrespect, also celts did inhabit Spain before the Roman invasion so technically speaking your Spanish ancestors could be part celtic never know! It was a while ago

[@ralphmehlhorn2920]

1777🇮🇪🇦🇷

[@ko0974]

Founder of your Navy

[@bigploppa154]

@@TFinna realistically, only real chance of that is if their ancestors are Galician. majority of Conquistadors were Castilian, Andalusian or Basque, not Galician

[@Mute_Nostril_Agony]

You forgot Father Teds My Lovely Horse and Dana’ All Kinds Of Everything

[@kevinbarry8114]

Kevin Barry is a top 10. Keep up these great videos.

[@chris-ryan]

1. The fields of athernry
2. Come out ye black n tans
3. The boys are back In town - thin lizzy 😂
4. MANIC 2000 Mark McCabe 😂😂

[@steveperez3501]

Lol

[@colinmackenzie6277]

😂😅😊 GO ye fookin' cheeky Yobbo!!!

[@ryanbuzzard9979]

Cowboy song by thin lizzy is better

[@OnsWereldSuiderland]

Theres a old Irish song, sung by mothers during the Anglo-Boer war (1899 - 1902) where mothers sing about wanting the Boers to beat the English, and be free of tyranny, but knowing that the cost of the Boers winning would be the lives of Irish sons forced to go fight the Boers who never did anything against the Irish for the English....
As a Boer, I always believed there was a kinship between the Irish and Boers of South Africa.

[@carkey2868]

Thanks to the people of Orania for removing the Irish Monument from Brixton ,Johannesburg to Orania for safekeeping as it was neglected in Brixton and they wanted to develope the ground on which it was situated.

[@aidankeane8971]

Rising of the Moon, the Clanceys version kick-started the folk revival in the 60s

[@GaryHynes-im5di]

Sean o riada.. Mise Eire... should be our national anthem..

[@SGTMajorMikeGodBlessAmerica]

As an Irish guy, can confirm, love from Ireland!

[@randomkid7064]

I also like come out ye black and tans

[@anonymous-iy7ml]

1. The Foggy Dew (The Young Wolfe Tones)
2. Whiskey In The Jar
3. Follow Me Up To Carlow

[@GooberDapple]

mmm yes perfect!

[@bensigl3766]

How did "A Nation Once Again" not make the cut?!

[@joegreen2750]

They're all away doin the double!

[@donbaker5707]

Was just thinking the same

[@trishaprett7721]

As we are now watching our country,being decimated,thank God for this young man.I have always loved my country,and I am devastated.I kissed the ground at Dublin airport long before the Pope did.💚I used to be so emotional seeing Ireland from the plane,through the clouds as a teenager coming home from London,that fellow passengers would shed a few tears with me.

[@sophiabreidfischer6242]

Oro se is definitely a classic. Ive never heard of the song Grace before. I love Song For Ireland, although it wasnt written by an Irish person. 🇨🇦✌️

[@KingdomOfItaly793]

I live in Pennsylvania and I am German, Italian, and Irish which is what majority of people are here. Nice to find a channel about Ireland

[@kinglionkayce]

You're American.

[@KingdomOfItaly793]

@@kinglionkayce I’m an American citizen and born and raised here yes, I’m ethnically German, Italian, Irish

[@Gombeen1916]

Even don't people don't know it yet, a song called "Eire" by the band Gombeen could be the most
prophetic Irish song ever written.

[@jennifermaharaj3551]

Thanks for the top three.I love all Irish music,songs,everything Irish.Not a drop of Irish blood running through my veins.

[@Biggie_Cheese470]

"Foggy Dew" is such a fucking hit about the war

[@Cheekysquirel]

1. Foggy dew
2. Oro se do behtha bhaile
3.amhran na bhfiann

[@Fuffy192]

Mine drunken sailors

[@BakedNConfused]

• Johnny i Hardly Knew Ye
• Molly Malone (The Luck of the Irish movie version)

[@achliscantplay4202]

As a Russian singer, touring with an Irish dancing show in Australia 😅 - my two absolute milestones are "Goodbye, Johnny Dear", and, of course, "My Lovely Horse".

[@EpicGammingCrew]

The spark should be number 1 if we keepin it 100

[@antoniovlassa5886]

You can tell how important #1 was because of how much time was dedicated to it

[@FootballPsychoPS3T]

It's the national anthem of Ireland

[@antoniovlassa5886]

@@FootballPsychoPS3T yes, you too found my joke funny, right?

[@FootballPsychoPS3T]

@@antoniovlassa5886 I did. I left the comment for anyone reading who didn't know!

[@noreenhoward5857]

Quick fact: Soldiers Song is the national anthem of Ireland🇮🇪

[@brittsavage007]

just listening to your voice takes me back to hearing my visiting Irish relatives when I was. young. Such a beautiful accent.

[@GWOAT]

Fields of Athenry...Spancil Hill...

[@MrBagpipes]

Yes and yes.

[@jasonmccain9544]

Love the dubliners singing oro se do bheatha bhaile in the background!

[@MarcLeonbacher-lb2oe]

I did recognize it immediately and thought almost the same like you.

[@cathyskywalker77]

You just acquired a new subscriber here!! Absolutely love Irish music...well, everything Irish. Self-taught student of Irish history.

[@DenDoig1956]

Bonnie Prince Charlie. My da spoke regarding him. He was an iron miner in the Northern part of Minnesota. What a tale he could tell about Bonnie Prince Charlie. He read everything.

[@pieceofmymind360]

Thank you so much for making this video many a time I was asked and never had an answer

[@goblinbastard5310]

whiskey in the jar is like the most iconic irish song

[@JohnGill-td3ur]

OMG YES

[@vojtechzapletal8783]

honorable mention: Cranberries Zombie

[@daithi1966]

I'd put it in the top 3 myself.

[@Exsultxn4]

Class

[@HelenFire420]

Based

[@kerbearlynch15]

I 100% agree!! Well at the same time I can't just leave it at 3!! Lol I love our native songs, another two of my favourites is "the town I loved so well" and "the foggy dew"

[@olaattar8166]

In loooove with the irish history what a great nation!!! I’m working on a youtube video about the Irish history in Arabic language to teach the Arab young generation about this great nation and the lessons we should learn from you guys in fighting israhellies and your channel inspired me a lot

[@Googoogagamf]

“Beer, beer, beer”. Absolute classic.

[@Badger69-96]

Sunday bloody Sunday 🎶🎵🎸

[@daithi1966]

Zombie as well.

[@youngian]

Dustin the Turkey overlooked again.

[@Veronica705]

The best-known and best-loved song in Ireland is "The Fields of Athenry." ❤🇮🇪❤

[@WookieWarriorz]

exactly, cant believe its not here, its the song the fleadh would start and end on and everyone knew the words and belted them out and even today its sang all around the world in football stadiums and irish bars.

[@kategreat87dowdall36]

Thank you 🙏 I agree 💯

[@davyholden]

Thank you 😊

[@lukesherry8416]

And when we go on night patrol we hold each others hands

[@everflxme]

We are the British Army and were here to take your land 💅

[@Konzon]

Bruh, he did my boy Charlie dirty.

[@MrTony002]

The new song by Kyle Gordon deserves to be on this list.

[@BiornBear]

I don’t know any Irish songs but I need to learn them all since I’m of Irish ancestry. I love Irish culture.

[@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk]

1. Do You Want Your Auld Lobby Washed Down?
2: Wanderly Wagon
3. Bingo Crazy

[@24starchild]

You’re a good man Davy, this is important work you’re doing.

[@zynosgd9982]

what would I tell them?
"idfk, why you asking me? I'm french"

[@eimead]

Maniac 2000 (mark mccabe)
C'est la vie (b*witched)
Good lookin woman (joe dolan)
Checkmate.

[@joegreen2750]

Don't forget.
You Wouldnae Shove Your Granny Af A Bus.
sung by
Robin O Hall. and
Jimmy O McGregor.
With additional material by
Buffalo Bill and
His High Flying Dish Clothes.
Coming to a Urinal near you!

[@agathe.gbr.]

The new name I have to google bc I don't who's this person: Grace O'Malley
Thank you again!

[@Dulaman107]

ah, the Queen of Pirates. lovely woman, killed her own son for falling out of a boat

[@doithimaceabhard7457]

​@@Dulaman107WELL!?!?? Did he do it again? No? ... So lesson learned I'd say.

[@Dulaman107]

@@doithimaceabhard7457 true. In all honesty, I do quite like her, but she did do some pretty messed up things

[@doithimaceabhard7457]

@@Dulaman107 twas the style at the time

[@user-xh4fr9et2c]

Town i loved so well

[@nunyabiznez6381]

My great, great grandfather was summarily executed for singing #2.

[@brianharrison133]

Zombie by the Cranberries needs to be added to this list since it bookends the rebellion period the rest of the songs came from to the end of the troubles.

[@procrastination_productions]

No1 is the Ryanair boarding music

[@davidpelton1154]

Grace o malley is my 6x great grandma glad to know some ppl still know abt her

[@cowgirlcasey1407]

My grand daughter, Gracie, is 4. I have told her Grace O'Malley stories at bed time her entire life. I bought a biography on her life recently. My son (Gracies father) had no idea she was a real person. He thought I'd been making all these stories up. I was stunned

[@davidharkin8554]

Mr plunkett was also dying from cancer when he answered the call. Unbelievable 😢

[@al87221]

1. Rocky road to Dublin 2. Drunken sailor 3. Galway girl

[@mariocanfora9117]

Galway girl Is not traditional

[@sandidavis820]

Davy, those 3 are great, but Come Out Ye Black and Tans should be there too

[@davyholden]

Yes indeed. I wasn’t speaking of the best songs. Just the most important songs 😊 Come Out Ye Black and Tans had no historical value really. It was written about 40 years after the war of independence

[@rosieo5875]

The Wearing of the Green and the Fields of Athenry are family favourites ❤

[@Son-Of-David1990]

Dropkick murphys: hold my keg of Guinness mate

[@RobertOtoole-jo5bg]

I'm a drop kick murphy fan myself. Shipping out to boston lol

[@benk9397]

1) One potato, two potato song
2) The leprechaun movie main theme
3)Lucky charms cereal theme
❤

[@ohno2112]

Boys back in town!

[@mrfrisky6501]

Written by a British bloke

[@enolam99]

It was written by Philip Lynott of the Irish rock band THIN LIZZY.

[@tjkennedyphoto]

My daughter,.named Eire, loves dancing to Oro Se Do Bheata Bhaile. Éire go brâch 🇮🇪

[@joshuasbroome1841]

Anything by the Wolfe Tones

[@themaggattack]

How very dare you.

[@ellabellaboo2681]

Well lad love all your vids l.Would you please do the Selton hill ambush story Wich happend during the 1916 easter rising.I won't tell any of the detail because it would be better for you to find out yourself.If you could do this all the people in south Leitrim would much appreciate it 🇨🇮🇨🇮

[@davyholden]

I’ll look into this Ella!

[@thedabbinunicorn5432]

Absolutely Grace is such a beautiful song

[@patscanlon6778]

Thank you keep going Good luck and God bless you ❤

[@stupidstutesman2444]

As an American, I got The Soldiers song, but hadn't heard the others

[@Hanamy7777]

1. A rainy night in Soho.
2. The Merry Ploughboy.
3. Dreams.

[@elgregos8822]

I love the Foggy Dew

[@godcazz]

In no order, The Sash, Rocky Road to Dublin and Star of the County Down

[@rackpunch4026]

Prince Bonnie Charlie - that's hilarious.

[@streetscholar3539]

I wouldn't normally be interested in this but after I've seen the support and love for justice in Palestine from Ireland I have nothing but love and admiration for Irish ppl, history and culture 👍🏻
🇮🇪🇵🇸

[@gracepixie111]

Number 3 is GRACE I DO IRISH DANCE AND MY NAME IS GRACE

[@thecatholicman]

Our Lady of Knocn

[@Ooohhhhardaaahhh]

The foggy dew, fields of athenry and grace for me.

[@user-ix6kc5mn6p]

Celtic symphony#3 dirty old town#2 irish anthem#1 honorable mention step it out Mary my fine daughter

[@fintan5083]

Dustin the turkey eurosong 2008 !!
"A nation that knows how to write a song where did it all go wrong "

[@peterstephenwhyte6786]

Grace must be up with the best of them

[@colmcounihan6197]

Still play Grace on my piano🇮🇪🇮🇪🎹

[@Anthems_And_More]

Can’t listen to grace cause it was my Nanas favourite song and I bawl cry when I hear it she died in 2019 and i still cry

[@yoshitheboi11]

1. Amhran Na Bhfiann
2. The Foggy Dew
3. Come out ye black and tans

[@Taxistheft.]

I’m half Irish this makes me laugh 😂

[@ruthguthrie1099]

First two absolutely wonderful 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I'll need to check out the 3rd one.🤍