A Begorrathon Playlist for St Patrick’s Day!
Are you planning a St Patrick’s Day celebration? Need a soundtrack for the day that’s in it tomorrow?
Then why not check out our Spotify playlist, put together for Reading Ireland Month featuring the great, the good and the questionable of Irish music. Despite the news that Boyzone and Westlife are joining forces to create a supergroup called Boylife or Westzone or something equally daft, I promise, neither of them have made the list!
Featuring world wide stars like Van Morrison, Thin Lizzy, U2, Sinead O’Connor, Damien Rice and Glen Hansard through to lesser know bands like The Prayer Boat, Lir and The Strypes, we’ve tried to capture the breadth and diversity of modern Irish music.
SPOILER ALERT!! This playlist contains Chris deBurgh. You may want to have the fast forward button to hand…
Who are your favourite Irish musicians? Is there anyone on the playlist I should have included?
Hope you all have a fabulous St Patrick’s Day!
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Goodness! Dana takes me back! But then so does Paddy McGinty’s Goat…
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My Mum and Dad walked down the aisle after they were married to Dana so I have a soft spot for it. Paddy McGinty’s Goat? I just like it 🙂
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Nice playlist. I love Flogging Molly. They may be a little on the “punk” music but it’s still good music.
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They are great, aren’t they? Thanks Michelle!
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Wonderful Cathy – thank you 🙂
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Fun stuff, but I don’t know why you’re apologizing for Chris de Burgh — who’s done quite a lot of good among the not-so-good — when you have Val Doonican in there.
Nice to see people like Houthouse Flowers, Christy Moore and Mary Coughlan in the mix. But, wot, no Corrs?
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I actually used to love Chris deBurgh! And Val Doonican is a legend! I’m going to add a few more later.
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Jonathan Kelly’s another I didn’t notice there. Oh, David MacWilliams.
And Val Doonican is a legend!
So was Grendel’s mother.
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Sinaed O’Conner always reminds me of moving to Jersey as we had it on a cassette tape (remember those?) Great post you are going great with Ireland Month – I’m loving it!
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Oh I remember tapes alright – I had a couple of Sinead O’Connor albums on cassette back in the day! I have a wee sick boy at the minute so I may fall a wee bit behind in my Ireland Month plans!
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Oh I did see the picture on twitter – I hope he gets better soon!
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Sorry to hear about the wee man’s illness. Hope it clears up pronto.
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Thanks. I think we have a long night ahead 😀
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Sympathies!
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Happy Paddy Day to you too 🙂
I’m really enjoying the Reading Ireland Month.
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Thanks so much!
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I like Lady in Red and A Spaceman Came Travelling but you’re right, he’ll never be cool. They’ve produced some nice music. The Cranberries was the first CD album I bought.
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I actually used to love Chris deBurgh back in the day, but people really don’t like him!
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I’ve no real beef with Chris deBurgh but had to skip after a few bars of that Johnny Logan song on your playlist. New artist to me but I don’t think I’ll be looking up more.
Being a child of the 80s-ish, anything The Cranberries, Sinead O’Connor or U2 is fine. And Irish folk and pub type music is popular here in Newfoundland. Lively songs or maudlin stuff.
A sentimental personal favourite: Endearing Young Charms, which a friend sang at our wedding and which turned out to be rather prescient as like Moore’s wife, I was “stricken with illness” very shortly after tying the knot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_Me,_if_All_Those_Endearing_Young_Charms
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Johnny Logan is a real throwback – he won the Eurovision Song Contest twice for Ireland – so I really don’t blame you for skipping him!!
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