Fields of Athenry
- Thread starter Firky
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Nah, not really.
You dissing my culture?
You fucking culchie
N_igma
Epistemic nuisance
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
It became a 'major' issue with 'loyal' types when it began to become an 'official' song at Celtic Park.
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Plastic Geordie.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Rodney Trotter and no mistake, that quote.
I went to Athenry a few times, it's a Bus Éireann stop halfway between Dublin and Galway. It wasn't what I expected... also a bit of a nothingness, but then what place will ever live up to the songs written about it?
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Now there's a thought.
I have listened to a lot of Irish music over the years through drinking in English pubs frequented by Irish people. I like the music and inevitably became familiar with some of the so called 'rebel songs'.
The Fields of Athenry is a beautiful ballad when sung slowly. It is also a record of Irish history from a time when the British ruling class were being particularly harsh masters. The Trevelyan in the song was Sir Charles Trevelyan a baronet who was in charge of famine relief at the time of the Irish Potato Famine. The famine itself was largely caused by British landlords demanding a single cash crop and when the potato blight hit, it meant that there was no backup food to eat. This is not unlike what is happening today in parts of the world where coffee or bananas are grown for export.
Trevelyan was not a nice man and made a speech in which he included the words that the famine could be seen as a "mechanism for reducing surplus population". From that you can conclude that his rations of corn were not going to be given out very freely. There may have been many who were deported for stealing some of it.
The Fields of Athenry is a beautiful ballad when sung slowly. It is also a record of Irish history from a time when the British ruling class were being particularly harsh masters. The Trevelyan in the song was Sir Charles Trevelyan a baronet who was in charge of famine relief at the time of the Irish Potato Famine. The famine itself was largely caused by British landlords demanding a single cash crop and when the potato blight hit, it meant that there was no backup food to eat. This is not unlike what is happening today in parts of the world where coffee or bananas are grown for export.
Trevelyan was not a nice man and made a speech in which he included the words that the famine could be seen as a "mechanism for reducing surplus population". From that you can conclude that his rations of corn were not going to be given out very freely. There may have been many who were deported for stealing some of it.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Ah. Maybe it was Athlone, now you mention it.
That there Guinness plays tricks with the mind.
So maybe Athenry is as nice as the song suggests...
Numbers
an ting!
I love The Fields of Athenry, tis probably the 1 song I'm comfortable singing as a 'party piece'.
But <wears smug grin> best I ever heard it sung was by Ronnie Drew in a pub in Ringsend with me da, Ronnie & Colin Farells uncle Willy & Barney McKenna
I'd just got out of prison and was brought for a few jars, sat and drank and talked and sang for hours.
Gives me shivers remembering it.
But <wears smug grin> best I ever heard it sung was by Ronnie Drew in a pub in Ringsend with me da, Ronnie & Colin Farells uncle Willy & Barney McKenna
I'd just got out of prison and was brought for a few jars, sat and drank and talked and sang for hours.
Gives me shivers remembering it.
lights.out.london
Black Flag
All these years and I must have been sitting at Paradise with my fingers in my ears. I haven't heard those 'additions'.
If you want a Rebel song, there are 'better' ones to hound the Hun with. Chants of 'Argentina' normally warm things up rather well. And before anyone asks -
I'm a Celtic supporter
I'm Scots
I was born in Glasgow
I'm a Catholic
Tiocfaidh Ár Lá
and fuck you.
Lol @ Athenry being a bus stop.
