I love this song it was played at my Granada's funeral 6years ago xxxx

Great GREAT memories...used to see Reilly all the time when he performed regularly at the "Dubliner" in Washington DC in the late 70's...thx a lot :)

i,m a loyalist and i love irish music i,ve heard a few versions of this song but nobody even comes anywhere near as good as paddy reilly singing this and the music is played beautifully and would bring a tear to a glass eye. well done paddy reilly if you ever want to come sing the fields of ballnafiegh theres a recording studio up the road from me.

The incomparable Paddy Reilly ! Wonderful voice

I remember growing up listening to Paddy he is awesome!!!

just found this guy he's absolutely bloody great

The man's a legend. Best ballad singer ever.

I have to say that the most fantastic Version of this song was sung by the Galway football Team after defeating kildare in the the all Ireland final in 1998. As A Kildare man in the midst of 50,000 Galweigans singing it , it was spine tingling... Brilliant didn't mind loosing after that

what a beautiful song. And what a beautiful voice. It makes me long to see Ireland (though I'm Dutch)

well said, I have been to Athenry and it is so cool. This is a wonderful tune, enjoy it.

Paddy sings the best version of this beautiful song by a mile

great music in this song ,sad wee song too. good singer paddy reilly.

god he is a legend forever in ireland by this song

What a simply beautiful song and wonderful voice, but the video cuts off half way through, volume is exceptional, really strong voice. Go Paddy Reilly!

Paddy reilly is an awesome singer!

i think he is 1 of the best at this song brilliant

this song is amazing

I love this song

people stop fighting, this is an amazing song which everyone can enjoy

sheer perfection.

what abeutiful song so sad the words

when i die this going to be my song

And your where right now? lol What a dope.

when that song was first released it was banned off the jukebox in the canteen guinness`s brewery park royal london.

You're a dreamer....

this song is about love:)

dont lynch me for this but Im English. I love this song and many more Irish songs. whenever we play rugby against the home nations im always slightly envious of your songs & your identity. youve kept so much of your past as a defiance stance against the English & i respect you for that. I also fear that one day we will be like you towards Europe but thats another issue

OHHH Baby! Let the Free Birds fly...

top of the morn to one an all

great song. up for celtic, ireland and the pope

hi spudseamus i agree luks never recorded it BUT I heard him a pub frequented by folk singers from around the world.The pubs name is The forrest hill bar. BUT is known to all who visit edinburgh as "Sandy bells" if your ever in edinburgh DO visit its a singers/can't sing /join in (if you know the words. to my Ears Luke was the finest singer ireland has produced. Well tommy /liam as well

It sure is

Now now, dont let us have to give you a slap.

Your description's not right. Paddy Reilly left The Dubliners in 2005. Great song though.

Fair play to you Paddy, the voice has the "nyong" I was in in England of Irish parents, love my Irish & English roots, (makes it a bit of a b******d at the 5 nations tho'!).

why the hell does it cut off?

cutekitten50 - Trevellyn's corn refers to the Irish famine when almost half the Irish population either died or had to leave on coffin ships - any idea how that arose - perhaps a history lesson would help?

try finding out what county ur ancesters came from , if it was tipparay , clare or limerick chances ar they were delcassians like me!

Dont steal tins of corn.

Hi there it is a sad song, But its not about someone who dies. Its sung about the famin in Ireland and someone (Michael) got caught stealing corn to feed his family so he was deported to botony bay in Austrailia. Just thought I would let you know

You might be surprised, sweetheart

I swear, the toughest, most opinionated people in the world sit in front of a screen.

its broken

This has nothing to do with Vietnam, Walter !!!

Sorry I meant the Spanish republicans, even there the Basques are waiting to be free. It's all relative and I do understand when you talk about people ending up on the dole after thirty odd years of fighting. It took an age before everyone got round the tables it is inevitable. Look towards Afghanistan what is going to happen there? Regards and best wishes for the new year,

Look at my surname my family are from Cork

Is this about Rupert Murdoch?

haha whatever. your post was away off Australian, Irish... theres no comparasion whatsoever

It can easily be transpoes to the orange groves or Spain during that sad civil war when volunteers from all over came to fight for ideology or perhaps for a better world . Tha republicans had a long wail for victory. Viva comrades!

13 members of Lord Russel's Liberal government dislike this.

CELTIC FC do not play rebel songs in there stadium.

This song is a rebel song, against the english, so how can it not be political. One of the nicest songs in the world, and it is a political song, whether you like it or not.

While I have to admit to this song not being my cup of tea (nothing to do with the words or it's meaning, I prefer more upbeat dance music) I have to defend myself by telling you that someone rather drunk person was using my computer and posted the insult above and I know he didn't really mean it because his girlfriend is from Cork. Sorry about that.

Life has been hard for millions. Most move on but oh not the Irish. Like a sad song don't you. Maybe you could tell it to the native Americans, Aztecs or the Russians in the second world war etc etc.

I was agreeing with you chris, keep the politics out, everybodys had some shit at one time or another, nobody has the sole right for sympathy and the world would be a better place without religion and the one-up-man-ship most of its followers try to get. Surely this song is about the sadness brought on a family by being deported for petty crime? The Lancashire folk songs I mention are taken and enjoyed in their original context and "Ther reyt fettling tackle" as we say up here

Why are people getting all political with their responses to this song. It has nothing to do with politics. Its about someone being deported to Australia after he was caught steeling during the potatoe famin No politics involved

Good historical song(and I'm English)but spoilt by the political,kick the Brits messages. The landlord situation happened here.Working class Lancashire where I'm from is a far cry from chocolate box England everybody envisages&its people were cruelly exploited by landowners/mine owners/mill owners who ran the MP's.Plenty of songs about cotton,coal&its hardships.There always has been&always will be "Them who has and them who hasn't" but we didn't have MP's to protect a minority like some did!

How clever you are, it's also nothing to do with Spain, Rupert. lol

because politics, both Irish and English, exacerbated the problems caused by the famine. The Famine could have been absorbed by our population, but the near slavery of English land-owner's, combined with an arm's legnth approach but Irish Upper class, only servered to prmotoe emigration and hardship. Fields of Anthenrye is not directly a politcal statement as The Dubliners were always a strictly neutral bunch.

decent version that's traditional. great song, ahh the days of belting it out at rugby matches... and if you don't like the song at least explain why, otherwise it's just pointless

i bet you are from mayo, or your fathers are

You made a comment on my post not me on you. Maybe you have a problem with "criticising". Typical Irish response when it comes to the famine. 5.4 plus million die on both sides in the Vietnam war, I bet you did not know that, yet everyone should know or care about the Irish and the famine, typical. By the way criticising others is also a part of KZfaq Joe, if you have a problem with it then set up a club JUST for you and others with the same view.

I suppose if you made KENT independant tomorrow, it would return a conservative government until doomsday. In 1921 they marginalised 6 counties, that in a vote today would be down to 2, possibly 3. our day WILL come. In 20 years time you will be shouting that Shankhill Road has DEMOCRATICALLY voted to remain part of the UK. Our day IS coming.

OHHH Baby, Let the Free Birds Fly.....