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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Nearly 60 traditional Irish ballads, including: Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms * Black Velvet Band * Brennan on the Moor * Cliffs of Doneen * The Croppy Boy * Danny Boy * Down by the Sally Gardens * I Know My Love * I Never Will Marry * Johnny, I Hardly Knew You * Leaving of Liverpool * Minstrel Boy * Molly Malone (Cockles & Mussels) * Red Is the Rose * When You Were Sweet Sixteen * Wild Rover * and more.
Excerpt from Songs of the Gael: A Collection of Anglo-Irish Songs and Ballads Wedded to Old Traditional Irish Airs As to the songs - I have aimed at selecting those which have in them the true national ring. We want in the Ireland of to-day an antidote to the Spirit of Anglicisation which is abroad. I know no more effective barrier against the encroach ment of that Spirit, next to the Irish Language and Irish Song, than the general singing at concerts and gatherings of good anglo-irish ballads and songs. The music hall and concert room may be made a very powerful agency in de-nationalising and even in debasing our people. From a national and moral point of View what effect can empty, Vulgar,...
This volume is a monument among ballad books containing 158 of the most popular Irish ballads and songs which echo and resound throughout the pubs of Ireland and indeed throughout the world by Ireland’s leading folk groups. Along with notes on many of the ballads, this book features a fine collection of unique photographs, drawings and engravings depicting scenes of Ireland’s bygone days. Contents include, “The Town I Loved So Well,” “The Wild Rover,” The Rose of Tralee,” “The Cliffs of Doneen,” “Cockles and Mussels,” “The Patriot Game,” “A Nation Once Again,” “Old Maid in a Garrett,” “Nora,” “James Connolly,” “I’ll Tell Me Ma” and many more.
83 ballader og sange.
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