Great remark Pat !!

@@goofy79248 mate Tommy's voice's just perfect like an angel's voice....

i agree very much! Thanks Foggy!

I may be young and unlearned, but you sir are wrong in your approach.

@@nicholasdinius6570 There's nothing wrong about my approach, pal. I'm just saying it like it is, and saying things that need to be said.

@@robertflint2549 Agreed mate i listen this often it is real music indeed ..Tommy Makem great voice !

@@kevinwallace962 Sounds like your taste in music is as good as mine there, Kev!

Definetly, i am very young compared to the regular audience of these musical artists, i will not say my exact age but i was not old enough to remember anything when tommy died, i remember one time i was listening to my google home playing some playlist, and the song "queen of all argyle" by silly wizard came on and my mother (who dislikes folk in general) made a comment that it had more "substance" than my music usually does, meaning different instruments playing along with the artist, i am perfectly fine with just listening to a singer with no accompaniment, so i was like, really?

Mine used to sing it to me as well

Practice

You are't alone...i agree with you mate

True

great stuff

No I think he said Liam Clancy had the best ballad voice.

Nope. Tommy

@@MrEdkern no wrong. Look up Bob Dylan/Clancy brothers Slane 1984. He says quote "I never heard a singer as good as Liam Clancy. He was just about the best ballad singer he ever heard in his life".

You watch NO DIRECTION HOME. DYLAN SAID THAT IN THE INTERVIEW.

Knowing dylan he changes every minute.

I live about 30 minutes away from there 🙂

Norma Timmons it’s not Irish, it’s English.

@@alexander6399 This song is American, it was adapted from another song.

Pilkie101 They even mention it’s an English song at the beginning. Don’t believe everything Wikipedia tells you, the first person to pen it doesn’t mean it’s theirs. Many old folk songs have been sung for hundreds of years.

You could have just checked the credits.

cccustard LOL, I don't sit through the credits, but maybe I'll go back and watch episode two, or at least the final minutes of it.

A short clip of this is found on "No Direction Home" the bio of Bob Dylan. Like you I have not known where to find this until I saw the fuller version on episode 2 of "The Tunnel".

Yes indeed, the song features in the story too

Beautifull ^^

She did but it was called Railroad Boy.

Is that book is about the Baudelaire orphans?

Nicholas Taitz yes

A bit younger than you I suspect but my dad listened to this music (Sottish so maybe that's the difference?) I suspect the anti-Irirsh culture was partly responsible but if these boys were on X factor or BGT or whatever money making scheme was on the go now, they wouldn't be so unknown.

Mike Fergus - What "anti-Irish culture'? We English like the Irish, and the list of Irish singers, actors and broadcasters who are household names over here is as long as your arm, heck the Dubliners had a smash chart hit here with 'Seven Drunken Nights' at the height of the IRA bombing campaign! (The English regarded the IRA as just a bunch of crackpots who in no way represented the great Irish people) I first discovered the Clancys and Tommy M on youtube last year belting out 'Wild Colonial Boy' on the Sullivan show and they blew my socks off. No doubt they were getting big money from American TV and concert booking agents, so we can't blame them for never trying to be big here too. All I know is that they played at least once to a sellout audience at London's Royal Albert Hall. Pity they never stuck around a while..:)

that's great but there was a definite 'anti Irish culture' going on in that period and it no doubt suppressed that music. The effect was less noticeable in Scotland due to historic connections. Don't misunderstand me , I'm not trying to drag drag up political/religious issue. Just saying that a lot of these talented musicians never really got the audience they deserved because of historic issues.

Mike Fergus - "Historic issues" are just that, over and done with, it was nothing to do with current generations of Irish and English, so who but a numpty would bear a grudge for things that happened in the past? For example an IRA bomb rattled our windows in 1990 when I lived in Leicester England, but we didn't go round bashing up every Irishman and woman in the city, we just laughed it off..:) Here's that list of Irish who've made it big in England, the English took them to their hearts, proving like I said that there's no anti-Irish bias here,.:) Eamonn Andrews, Val Doonican, Fergus Kelly, Gay Byrne, Gloria Hunniford, Jack McGowran, Eammon Holmes, Michael Flatley, Fergus Kelly, The Dubliners, the Chieftains, Donal Donnelly The Fureys, Sinead O'Connor, Liam Neeson, Dave Allen, Graham Hancock, Frank Carson, Richard Harris, Robert Shaw, plus another hundred or more. Like I said, it's a pity the Clancys and Tommy M didn't visit us more, we'd have lapped them up! Incidentally I never miss an episode of Father Ted, currently being re-run on English TV..:)

Tungsten Kid laughed it off,your a fucking laugh its a pity it didnt go off under your ass,and u could,nt beat yourself up never mind an irish man