Podcasts by Your Weekly IRISH STOUT
Drink up me hearties! MARC GUNN puts on a pirate hat as Captain Black Jack Murphy, Pirate Extraordinaire and Irish piratanical vocalist for Irish Stout presents a weekly podcast featuring Irish songs, seafaring music, sea shanties, pirate music and sometimes rude indecency from across the seven seas.
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Bonnie Ship the Diamond from 2022-02-21T16:25:30.625200
An old Scottish song popularized by The Corries. Over-fishing in the Greenland sea during the early 19th century had a devastating toll on the whale stocks. A new hunting ground, the South-West Fis...
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Old Fenian Gun from 2022-02-21T16:25:30.593214
This is a beautiful visual song about a boy who learns about his father's support for Irish independence and decides to follow in his father's footsteps.
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The Holy Ground from 2022-02-21T16:25:30.592457
Irish lyrics to the tune of "Old Swansea Town Once More". The "Holy Ground" is a quarter of Cobh (once known as Queenstown), which was inhabited mainly by fisherman. The tune is also refered to as ...
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Isn't It Grand, Boys? from 2022-02-21T16:25:30.589055
Possibly an adaptation of an old music hall song. The song was popularized by The Clancy Brothers, but I heard it from some pirate singers at various Renaissance Festivals.
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The Humours of Whiskey from 2007-12-11T00:00
Poitin is a term for illegal whiskey. Illegal because taxes were not paid to the British government for its creation. In gaelic it is called uisce beatha (pronounced ish-ka bah-ha), the water of li...
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Haul Away Joe from 2007-12-04T00:00
A tack and sheet shanty.
Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License. If you enjoy this recording pick up our CD, "Pogue Mahone Means Kiss My Arse" at www.IrishSong....
Botany Bay from 2007-11-27T00:00
A song about an Irishman who immigrates to Australia. The song was collected in Australia in the 1950s by H.P.C. 'Duke' Tritton.
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PSA - Talk Like A Pirate Day from 2007-09-19T00:00
A Pirate Service Announcement (PSA) for Talk Like A Pirate Day.
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Rattlin' Bog from 2007-03-13T00:00
A classic Irish sing-a-long.
Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License. If you enjoy this recording pick up our CD, A Collection of Irish Pub Songs at www.IrishSon...
Whiskey in the Jar from 2007-02-27T00:00
Great pub sing-a-long about a man who robs Captain Farrell on the road. He brings the money home and shows it to his love, Jenny. Then while he's sleeping, his love takes his money and tells Captai...
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Fiddler's Green from 2007-02-20T00:00
I learned this song from the Wolfe Tones. It's a beautiful haunting dream of a place to rest forever. The Fisherman's paradise.
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The Foggy Dew from 2007-02-13T00:00
A song from the Easter Uprising of 1916
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All For Me Grog from 2007-01-30T00:00
This is a fun old sea shanty about that magical mixture-grog. Grog was introduced to the Royal Navy in 1740. It was a mixture of rum and water. This served two purposes. One, the alcohol would kill...
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Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye from 2007-01-23T00:00
Which came first the chicken or the egg. I first learned about "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" from a popular American version written during the Civil War. That song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" wa...
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The Night That Paddy Murphy Died from 2007-01-16T00:00
Morbid comical song from Newfoundland folk song written by Johnny Burke (1851-1930), a popular St. John's balladeer.
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The Mermaid from 2006-12-26T00:00
This song dates back to the 1700s. It is Child Ballad #289 and super popular on the Renaissance festival circuit where many new verses were written like the ones we added to this recording. If you ...
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