List of songs about Wicklow

This is a list of songs about County Wicklow, Ireland.

  • "In Wicklow (The Mountains are Higher than Rain)" - by Thomas Creen and Teresa McGettigan
  • "Sunrise on the Wicklow Hills" - E. McNulty (words) and T. Madden (music) from a musical called The King of Dublin
  • "The Wicklow Rover" - written by Pat Molloy from Roundwood
  • "The Vales around Cloughlea" - by local songwriter Frank Farrelly
  • "Derrybawn"
  • "The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale" - about Charles Stewart Parnell, recorded by the Wolfe Tones
  • "Avondale" - about Charles Stewart Parnell, written by Dominic Behan
  • "My Wicklow Hills so Gay" - by a songwriter from Ballyknockan
  • "Down by the Tanyard Side"
  • "The Banks of Avonmore" - written by Peter Cunningham-Grattan (died 1956)
  • "The Wicklow Mountains High"
  • "The Wicklow Vales for Me" - by Father Butler.
  • "Among the Wicklow Hills" - two songs with this name; one recorded by Foster and Allen, Larry Cunningham, etc., the other written by Johnny McCauley
  • "Billy Byrne from Ballymanus" - about one of the leaders of the 1798 rebellion[1]
  • "The Cow ate the piper"
  • "Dunlavin Green" - a local ballad written in response to the Massacre of Dunlavin Green which occurred on May 24, 1798[2]
  • "The Glendalough Saint"
  • "The Hill of Clonroe"
  • "The Meeting of the Waters" - written by Thomas Moore, recorded by Paddy Reilly

See also

References

  1. ↑ O Lochlann, Colm (1965). More Irish Street Ballads. Dublin: Three Candles Press. ISBN 0-330-25317-4.
  2. ↑ Moore, Christy (2000). One Voice. London: Lir/Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-76839-8.
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