#ireland music

[blackmarket-playlists]

NEW INDIE ROCK FROM IRELAND - brand new playlist on Spotify! Songs from 2024 only!

🔥Playlistcover: QUEEN BITCH (Dublin)

Feat. incredibly great songs by, a.o. • WIFESWAP (Dublin)  • GREEN GURL (Dublin)  • MARTINA & THE MOONS (Dublin)  • STOP THROWING LEMONS (Galway)  • CHERYM (Derry)  • TEN HAIL MARYS (Dublin) 

and many more! 68 great songs/ bands to discover (as of today) - an absolutely stunning indie scene.

Give it a spin and like it!

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Saying this as an Irish person since the new Hozier album just came out and there are lyrics in Irish; it’s Irish or Gaeilge (pronounced “gwhale-ga” or “gale-ga” depending on region), not Gaelic or Celtic or any other name people come up with.

It’s just a normal language that people speak in their everyday life. We learn it in school in the republic. People like myself are bilingual in Irish and English. It’s not a “fairy aesthetic cottage core leprechaun” language.

Please respect it. Our language is a touchy subject seen as how England tried to erase it by forcing English on us and severely punishing those who spoke Irish.

At the same time that does NOT mean it is a dead language. Our (in the republic) road and safety signs are in both Irish and English, same with legal documents. Our politicians speak it, and we are trying to preserve the language!

Anyways enjoy the album!

[mysharona1987]

[semioticapocalypse]

Anonymous. A young woman playing a harp to a large crowd. Rock of Cashel, Ireland. C. 1910

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[mikkeneko]

If we're all pretty much on board by now with "media consumption is not activism," are we ready to move on yet to the necessary corollary of "failure to consume media is not failure of activism?"

[irishthings]

Yeah babe I'm OK just reading the lineup for oxegen 2010

LOOK WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US

[chronically-chaotic-cryptid]

Chewing my arm off over Dónal Finn getting to keep his irish accent in Hadestown because I never heard an Irish accent in a musical before. He sounds like my grandad!! Like my friends!! He gets to be onstage and sound beautiful and keep his fucking accent!!!!!

[barnabyseyelashes]

RTÉ says Kneecap agreed not to wear pro-Palestine badges on The Late Late, but did anyway

RTÉ HAS RELEASED a statement clarifying that rap trio Kneecap had agreed not to wear pro-Palestine badges during their Late Late Show performance last night through their management, but then proceeded to wear them anyway live on air. 

On last night’s Late Late Show, Kneecap performed their new single ‘Better Way to Live’ and then chatted to host Patrick Kielty.

Kneecap’s Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap wore a watermelon badge – it’s become a pro-Palestine accessory because its colours match that of the Palestine flag.

However, during the chat with Kielty, DJ Próvaí removed his jacket to reveal a Palestine sports jersey.

Kneecap’s Móglaí Bap then said, to applause from the audience, that the group wants to “use our platform to highlight the genocide that’s happening in Palestine at the moment”.

He said that over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed “by American weapons” in the conflict so far, the majority of whom are women and children.

He added: “I think we have to use this platform and this opportunity to appeal to Irish people to attend rallies and protests and to support the BDS movement, and to show solidarity with Palestine and hopefully one day Palestine will be free.”

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[beautiful-basque-country]

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A lovely battle between Basque dance association Oinak Arin from Beskoitze (Lapurdi) and the Irish dancers of the Gohery school of dancing. Filmed last summer.

The Basque and the Irish sharing our special connection again!

[bulboat]

Dude, I've been listening to Doomsday Blue, Europapa, The Code, and Rim Tim Tagi Dim on loop. Also, more of their songs as well. I think I really love the Fryslân Bop, that's a jam.

[haveyouheardthisband]

[somnas-writes]

If Shanks was a musician, he would be the type of musician who drops the most earth shattering song once every five years then goes back to doing random side quests

[domhnallgleesonhaven]

New production stills and behind the scenes images from the set of De Selby Part 2 by Hozier.

This music video production keeps giving!

[mysharona1987]

[bodhrancomedy]

I’m so excited I’ve found a song with my name on it so I can show hearing English people how to pronounce Bodhrán.

Lyrics:

I am a year old kid, I’m worth scarcely fifteen quid,

I am the kind of beast you may look down on,

But my value will increase, at the time of my decease,

For when I grow up I’m going to be a Bodhrán!

[xwpseaweird]

|| THE QUIET MAN ||

John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara Mesmerize in this Classic Romance

The above tribute is dedicated to June Beck, founder of Maureen O'Hara Magazine.

Synopsis: "A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union." -IMDB

The Quiet Man (1952) is a film directed by John Ford (How Green Was My Valley) and stars John Wayne (True Grit, The Searchers) and Maureen O'Hara (The Parent Trap, Miracle on 34th Street). This is the second film Wayne and O'Hara starred in together, the first being Rio Grande, which Ford also directed. Wayne and O'Hara had amazing chemistry on screen and made five films together in total, the rest being Wings of Eagles, McLintock!, and Big Jake. The Quiet Man is seen as the more successful of their films, having achieved the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Best Directing in 1953.

John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara remained great friends until his death in 1979.

The song in the tribute is Into the Mystic by Van Morrison.

Notes: As with most old films, there are some things that may not have aged well, but were considered fine for the time period. One thing is the jokes about beating women who misbehaved with sticks. While no one was actually beat with a stick in the film, it was joked about. O'Hara's character, Mary Kate, was a redhead with a noted fearful temper. It was implied that she needed a good stick whipping to keep her in line, but Wayne's character never did. It was a sign that he had no issues with her being full of fire. The fact that these jokes exist doesn't diminish the fact that this movie is wonderful. I will always highly recommend it.

Fun Fact: At one point during filming, O'Hara hit John Wayne for real after their first big kiss. The punch was scripted, but she didn't pull it. Wayne saw it coming and blocked her punch with his hand. The impact of her fist with his palm caused her wrist to fracture. She literally broke her wrist and kept filming. O'Hara prided herself on being able to keep up with the men. She never let anything they threw at her bring her down. This is one reason why John Ford repeatedly used her in his films and why John Wayne loved working with her.