"The Fields of Athenry" is a song about the Great Irish Famine (1845-1849), composed in the 1970s by Inchicore songwriter Pete St. John. Great Irish Famine may also refer to Great Irish Famine (1740-1741) This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Inchicore (Inse Chór in Irish) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland south of the River Liffey and west of the city centre, in the Dublin 8 postal district. ... Pete St. ...

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"The Fields of Athenry" is a folk song about the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1849. It tells the story of the famine through first-person narrative. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...

The song, which was first recorded by Irish ballad singer Danny Doyle, recounts the tale of a prisoner who has been sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, Australia, for stealing food to feed his starving family. Danny Doyle is a solo Irish folk singer with an impressive concert career spanning almost four decades to audiences around the world. ... A studio photograph of Tasmanian convict Bill Thompson, showing the convict uniform and the use of leg irons. ... For other Botany Bays see Botany Bay (disambiguation) Bicentennial Monument at Botany Bay Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a few kilometers south of the central business district. ...

Composition dispute

The claim has been made that the words originate from a broadsheet ballad published in the 1880s by Devlin in Dublin with a different tune; however Pete St. John has stated definitively that he wrote the words as well as the music, so the story of the 1880s broadsheet may be false. ^[1] The Spire at night WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: 01, +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ...

Popular versions

The song has been recorded by many Irish artists such as Paddy Reilly, Frank Patterson, Ronan Tynan, Brush Shiels, James Galway, and by Boston-based American group The Dropkick Murphys. Paddy Reilly (b. ... Frank Patterson (October 5, 1938 - June 10, 2000) He was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland) and was a world famous tenor who died of brain cancer at the age of 61 in 2000. ... Dr. Ronan Tynan, M.D. (born 1960) is a popular tenor, singing in the classical Irish style. ... Brendan Brush Sheils (born in 1952, in Dublin) is an Irish musician from County Cavan, best known for being frontman of Gary Moores first band, Skid Row. ... James Galway and his golden flute Sir James Galway (born December 8, 1939) is a Northern Ireland-born virtuoso flutist from Belfast, often called The Man With the Golden Flute. ... Dropkick Murphys are a celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.[1] First playing together in the basement of a friends barbershop, they blended Oi!, Irish music, and hardcore. ...

The song is associated with Galway and Gaelic games supporters there. It has recently been associated with the Munster, London Irish and Irish rugby union teams and the football club Celtic F.C. (of Glasgow, Scotland) which has a strong association with Ireland. Loyalists have adapted the song, with the main line changed to "Low lie, the fields of Ballynafeigh". "The Fields of Anfield Road" is sung by Liverpool F.C. supporters to the same tune, but with suitably adapted lyrics referencing their history and stadium. Official website www. ... Official website www. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... Celtic Football Club (pronounced seltik in IPA; AIM: CCP)[1] is a Scottish football club, competing in the Scottish Premier League, the highest form of competition in Scotland. ... “Glaswegian” redirects here. ... Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Cha togar mfhearg gun dioladh (Scottish Gaelic) Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English (de facto)1; Gaelic[1]2 and Scots3 (recognised minority... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Unionists (Ireland). ... Ballynafeigh is a ward located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... The Fields of Anfield Road is a popular football song/chant sung by supporters of Liverpool FC. It is to the tune of The Fields of Athenry a popular hit song written by Pete St John in 1970. ... Liverpool Football Club are an English professional football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, who play in the Premier League; they are historically the most successful club in the history of English football, having won more trophies than any other English club. ...

A reggae version of the song was also recorded by the Century Steel Band in the early 1990s. The Boston punk rock band Dropkick Murphys also recorded a punk-rock version of this song on their 2003 album Blackout, as well as a softer version recorded specially for the family of Sergeant Andrew Farrar, an American Marine killed in Iraq ^[2]. Blaggards blended the song with Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues in a medley called "Prison Love Songs" ^[3]. Second-generation Irish Londoners, Neck, also recorded a "psycho-ceilidh" version of the song. Other punk versions of the song have been recorded by the bands No Use for a Name, The Tossers, and the Broken O'Briens. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Dropkick Murphys are a celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.[1] First playing together in the basement of a friends barbershop, they blended Oi!, Irish music, and hardcore. ... Blackout is the fourth studio album from Dropkick Murphys, released in 2003. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. ... Folsom Prison Blues is an American country music song written by Johnny Cash in the early 1950s and originally recorded with his trio in 1956 for the Sun Records label. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... NECK - the six-piece self-proclaimed London-Irish Psycho-Ceilídh Celtic Punk band from the North London neighbourhood of County Holloway (known informally thus due to its Irish population), home to John Lydon and Shane MacGowan. ... Céilí (Irish reformed spelling), or Ceilidh (Scottish and older Gaelic spelling), pronounced Kay-Lee in either case, is the traditional Gaelic social dance in Ireland and Scotland. ... No Use for a Name (Abbreviated NUFAN) is a Punk rock band from San Jose, California, United States, formed in 1987 by Tony Sly, Steve Papoutsis and Rory Koff. ... The Tossers are a seven-piece celtic punk band from Chicago. ...

The song is sung in the movie Veronica Guerin, by Brian O'Donnell, then aged 11, a street singer in Dublin. (The song is titled Bad News on the film's soundtrack.) [1] It is also sung a cappella by a female character at a wake in the controversial 1994 movie Priest. Veronica Guerin is a 2003 film directed by Joel Schumacher. ... A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ...

Lyrics

The Fields of Athenry — from the website of the composer. Supporters of Irish Republicanism sometimes sing the song with the lyrics "Where once we watched the small free birds fly - oh baby, let the free birds fly / Our love was on the wing - Sinn Féin / We had dreams and songs to sing - IRA / It's so lonely round the Fields of Athenry."^[4][5] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For pre-Arthur Griffith use of the political name, see Sinn Féin (19th century). ... Provisional Irish Republican Army (Irish name: Óglaigh na hÉireann) (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the Army or the RA) is an Irish Republican, left wing[2] paramilitary organisation that, until the Belfast Agreement, sought to end Northern...

Trevelyan in the lyrics refers to Charles Edward Trevelyan, a senior British civil servant in the administration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Dublin Castle, who saw the Famine in classic Malthusian theory as a natural means of 'controlling excessive population'. Trevelyan is widely blamed for the inadequacy of the British Government's response. His reports to London underestimated the severity of the Famine and overestimated the problems that could arise in providing assistance to the starving.^{[citation needed]} Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan (born 1807 in Taunton, Somerset, England - died 1886) was a British civil servant. ... Official standard of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (plural: Lords Lieutenant), also known as the Judiciar in the early mediaeval period and as the Lord Deputy as late as the 17th century, was the Kings representative and head of the Irish executive during the... Dublin Castle. ... The Rev. ...

Trevelyan's corn: According to Paddy Reilly being interviewed on RTE radio, this was a reference to maize/indian corn imported from America into Ireland for famine relief. A quantity was stolen from storage in Cork. The Irish were unfamiliar with the grain. As it was meant for seed, it proved too hard to mill for flour and was used mostly in gruel.^{[citation needed]} Radio Telefís Éireann[1] (RTÉ; IPA: ,  ) is the Public Service Broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. ... “Corn” redirects here. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Munster County: Area: 37. ...

Botany Bay refers to the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. For other Botany Bays see Botany Bay (disambiguation) Bicentennial Monument at Botany Bay Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a few kilometers south of the central business district. ...

You can hear it at http://www.patricksarsfieldcsc.com/downloads/fields_of_athenry.mp3

References

1. ^ http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics/fields-athenry.html
2. ^ Drop Kick Murphy's discography - The Fields of Athenry, Farrar version.
3. ^ Review of Blaggards' "Standards".
4. ^ http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=68913&pt=n
5. ^ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20060108/ai_n15993243

low lie the felds of athenry

See also

• Amhrán na bhFiann
• List of Irish ballads
• Northern Ireland
• Republic of Ireland