I am from Costa Rica but I have lived in New Jersey for nearly 25 years.In the town that I live there is a large community of people from Ireland.I have many Irish friends.They are kind,humble and hard working people.A long ago I had the pleasure of seeing Paddy Reilly at the Bar Irish Cottage in West Orange playing his good music.He went up to the bar with his violin and began to delight us with beautiful songs but one in special caught my attention "The Fields of Athenry"..... This Sunday,March 13/2022 the 69th West Orange St. Patrick's Day Parade will be held at 12 midday. 🙏 😀

15 years now since I left Ireland. Living in America! Hits hard during the holidays. Great song!

@paulyboyc

7 ай бұрын

14 in January for me. Here in NC. Love this version. Left from Shannon, Co. Clare, named my American born daughter Claire.

@jakemcintosh373

3 ай бұрын

I hope our crazy country is treating you both well.

My long missed ‘Pop’ left Kilrush, County Clare as a young Man in the 1930’s. Like many others all he had was empty pockets, a head full of dreams, a strong back and a desperate desire to live a better life! His only regret was having to leave to do it! He made a life and a Family, had many adventures and together with many other ‘Paddys’ worked his way from Building site to Building site,rebuilding another Mans Country,While his was waiting for the ‘Celtic Tiger’ to roar! He would have loved to see how Ireland has progressed,and it’s people living in a peaceful and far more prosperous Society than back in the hard times he left.He never managed to make that long,long Journey back,(he died due to complications caused by falling from a ‘WIMPY’s Scaffolding that failed) aged 58 in the early 70’s.I miss him every day,but this song can bring him back to my memory in a heartbeat,They worked damn hard,but they could ‘play’ just as well and my overall memory of growing up ‘Manchester Irish’ is of Love,Laughter and pride!

@patboland1650

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you make it back often

@johnhanley9914

Жыл бұрын

U honour ur old boy with these words

@peterkeane7767

Жыл бұрын

@@johnhanley9914 Thank You.

@malduddy6901

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story..

Its only when you've lived in London and haven't been home for a while you realise how true this song is

@kathrynquinn5844

7 ай бұрын

its long way from clare when anys wheres else Sl'an Leat Gor-N-Eir-Leat K.R.QUINN

@kathrynquinn5844

7 ай бұрын

meaning Sl'an Leat ' friend ' Gor-N-Eir-Leat. proud to be IRISH PROVO. K.R.QUINN

@user-sj5rs2yo7n

6 ай бұрын

True but they never want you back home after they took your hard earned money and they stole your land and give themselves double barrel names become low life barristers on your blood sweat and tears tell you you can get a meal from the salvation army while they have meals for fourteen which them all they wish themselves from a old old galway girl xxx

i am 25 and wish i was born about 20 years earlier so i could have witnessed paddy reilly play live as well as the dubliners,there is just no music like this anymore,unreal,

@RealFleeceJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you been good man, 9 years ago you wrote this comment and I’ve just found this song today

@spinnersue17

3 жыл бұрын

I so agree...Paddy is the best!

@kennethterrell7409

3 жыл бұрын

I used to frequent the Dubliner in Washington, DC. Paddy was friends with the owner and came often to that bar. I spent hundreds of hours listening to Paddy in a barroom. No better setting for Irish music, and no one better to be singing than Paddy.

@jonathancanavan9146

3 жыл бұрын

The best balladeer of them all. Luke was fantastic God rest him but I think Paddy Reilly was the best.

@kathrynquinn5844

7 ай бұрын

it's OK being born then to witness him playing live. but you'd be handling the struggles, the North 'Doire ' but knew where would an wouldn't be safe. being Catholic living in West coast ya know ya man nxt yous but further south leaving Dublin in 72' after the Party divided cause ya man Adams wanted none of it. I was just legal and answered the call, fw was training off to Arboe. Co, Tyrone. ya can't trust anyone apart from small few. You wouldn't have wanted the rest of what came with those times 😢 . in 84' after going Doire at 15yrs old. life was never the same . you didn't miss a whole lot dear .❤

Paddy's version of this song is the very best in my opinion. Absolutely love it.

@jamescoyle1528

Жыл бұрын

Hiya honey ye beautiful song ❤

Shivers on me Spine, Tears in me eyes! Im a Cork man in Australia & I have to say, Nil aon Tintean, mar na Tintean fein!

I had my childhood in the Rockies with no money and I would watch my father sing this to himself

One of the best songs ever from maybe the best singer Ireland‘s ever.

An Irishman from Co Antrim who worked in foreign countries I understand this song 32 counties of great culture and amazing people

Bar Luke, this man is our greatest ever singer ☘️💚🤍🧡

Great song for us, we are in England, a family of builders from Kildysert Clare ❤❤❤

as a Kerryman, if you change Clare to Kerry and you change here to Missouri it sums it up

My Grandfolk came from Clare (Kilkee) and I finally visited it in 2008. It's a beautiful place but the people make it even better.

@KarinaHernandez-ic1lk

4 жыл бұрын

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUU PUSSY

@turidoreilly9078

3 жыл бұрын

What. A terrible response - there is pure evil cowards out there

reminds me of days in Kilburn ,and biddy mulliganns before emigating to new zealand

Everybody chasing their dreams been over here for years now on building sites not really much work back west always reminds me of home ❤🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

Just a simply marvelous song, makes me long for Clare, the Cliffs, the crosses and castles, rivers and hills ... I have just got to get back, soon, real soon

@germangonzales2008

4 жыл бұрын

When you think about it, this song is about life. "It's a long long way..."

im an american boy. but im irish to the bone. all my family is irish and this song brings tears to my eyes. and just once want to see the homeland. "the roots that tie me to a land ive never know are calling me home"

Paddy Reilly & Luke Kelly finest voices irelands produced

@patrickrowan28

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Robear you. Are corrEct those two together are better than thEm all,

@princemorningstar

3 жыл бұрын

Let's not forget Liam Clancy.

I met Paddy a few weeks ago in a pub in Dublin. Still in good form and looking well. I remember him singing at a regular gig in Liberty Hall, Dublin every Friday Night way back in 1967. He always sang Deportees and James Connolly.. As a Clare man I love this song that was written by an English man Ralph McTell.

@malachy1847

5 жыл бұрын

Ralph met a Young Clare Lad on that Building Site.. the lad was about seventeen / eighteen barley shaving putting up 'Shuttering' Pans ... Ralph asked him how thing were with him and how he was doing ... he replied," It's a Long ... Long... Way from Clare to Here.." ... that stuck with him and formed the link that played out in those Lyrics thus he gathered together snippets of what those Irish Navvies were saying, ''Er getting up late on Sundays i never get Mass" ... too tired to write a letter back to home and the like, all prime source historical material from a generation that's now early before their time ...'Building up and Tearing England Down"... kzread.info/dash/bejne/dKV1ts-Qh6m0g6g.html

@martygi

2 жыл бұрын

@@malachy1847 love that explanation of the song

Wow , it just doesn't get much better than Paddy love his music such passion

as an american irishman i can still feel the pain of my ancestors

@yarnednomady5535

7 жыл бұрын

Jason McCoy this is only about London in the 60s

@brianreilly134

6 жыл бұрын

Yarned Nomady no . co Clarke is in ireland

I almost forgot what a set of pipes Paddy has. Man he can sing the shit out of that. Love it.

Replace Clare with east London and "here" with NW Australia and it sums up my current situation. Beautiful song. Grew up listening to Paddy Reilly but finally can understand the sentiment of songs like this and deportees.

@irishbrawler1948

7 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain keep you chin up

This mans singing is so flawless '

@joelmcguirk7869

3 жыл бұрын

His voice is flawless and his guitar is tuned to perfection as well as played to perfection.

Always play this on a jukebox when i can find it

Love love his baritone voice...great singer !!!

@PercussusResurgo

7 жыл бұрын

I agree, he is one of the best at carrying a tune.

Just brilliant paddy 👌👌👌

Half Irish and English always love Irish Music

@lordgod9628

6 жыл бұрын

12play Reilly

What a voice

Only Paddy Reilly can sing this.

Lovely song great stuff paddy🍻

@joeygsmom: Spot on - well said! It's a gift - and I can only add a word of deepest thanks to machree, to Linda - to all those so talented who have given us so many riches to savour! Many thanks! from a grand daughter out of County Clare

Such a singer. Simon Cowell would sign him in an instance, if time was on his side. Sure he is better than nearly all the x factor winners

I'm a young lad 25 have listen to paddy riley since iv been about 4 or year old and love him not many my age is in to this music but I'd pick this over any old hip hop when I get drunk I let paddy riley go to top of my voice and sing an old tune or 2 would love the cd paddy riley at the national stadium in Dublin but can't get it in England any 1 over in Ireland send it to me would be much appreciated and would pay for cd and postage kind regards

@lukeclee9034

4 жыл бұрын

If u could send it to me and be kind my email is lukeclee@yahoo.com just txt me I'd even but u a drink in for your self to have a old point of the good stuff on me

Really love this song and I have to say that this is my favourite rendition - really, really good. Thank you Machree01 for posting it.

this man is fantastic. wow.

he was a very good singer best of the best more singers he is good but he is best my number one favourite my

@jamescoyle1528

Жыл бұрын

Ye class song ❤

Legends

I heard him sing this song on Live Ireland .com . Great singer

@eoinzy11 I came home to the bog 1 year ago and will NEVER leave. (i'm only irish though my great grandparent's and had never been here but now i'm here I aint going any where. END OF:))

That's a loooong ride to Skiatook.

paddy reilly is a legend.one of a kind.one of few men id actually love to drink a pint with,

Definitive version 👍

@paddyoclown

6 жыл бұрын

nope

@paddyoclown

6 жыл бұрын

Jim McCann your very very very welcome. yeah its that good

Sure if I was going to Co. Clare, I wouldn't start from here ! Thanks

@PercussusResurgo

7 жыл бұрын

This of one my favourite profound and philosophical Irish saying. Often use it as a business analogy too. You can't get to where you want to be if you don't know where you are today. In a simpler sense it just makes me laugh every time I hear it or say it with the cheeky Irish irony of the phrase. Thanks for reminding me and helping my laugh on a tough morning.

lovely

Amazing stuff. C'mon the Glasgow Irish!

iamhere in Pa

1 paddy reilly.

@terencebeattie153

10 жыл бұрын

Cheers man, guy's something else.

great stuff 5****....Mel

@machree01 ..he was never in the dubliners..he played with them many times but paddy reilly stands alone as one of irelands greatest singers

ill tell ya's a little secret the reason he's so awsome is coz he's irish

I'm a jackeen but the only place I would love to be is along the West coast of Clare and I have to include Kinvarra Galway. First went there with my only true love, a Kinvarra lass A Mc Cor.....17 yes ago.

paddy reilly a living legend

Loooooooooooove Paddy Reilly. machree01 what is your favorite Paddy song? I also love SPANCIL HILL and NANCY SPAIN, and of course FIELDS OF ATHENRY.

👍

My tube Nathan Carter docks in Liverpool

Does anybody know where this was filmed??

yes, but why is Clare in Ireland, you can tell he is missing her from the lyrics

It's the county in Ireland, not a person!

Who is Simeon Cowell?

@KarinaHernandez-ic1lk

4 жыл бұрын

HEY FUCKHEAD TRY TO REPLY TO ME I BET YOU WONT SOOOOOOOOOO FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUU

he is a great drinker... especially when the singing starts

Best version- kzread.info/dash/bejne/pJecz7OkgrHYZM4.html

Sullivans John

@charlieward5769

7 жыл бұрын

slim Whitman

Why is the chap living in London, if he is missing Clare so much. I guess the song is about an Irish chap and his girlfriend Clare who is missing, quite sad really. Is he a football fan ,cos he goes on about missing the match on the Sunday?

@rossageraghty

7 жыл бұрын

gingerjoe1972 . Indeed this is a sad song. it is a story about a man from County Clare living in England. In the 1950s irish people emigrated to England to work and escape poverty. Many thrived but many did not. Of those misfortunate some got caught in a vicious circle of working and drinking. Enough time passed and they were too ashamed to go home or contact their families. Sad indeed 😔

@theward2425

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

there a clare in suffolk in england

@martinmccarthy7335

7 жыл бұрын

I think this is about a place in Ireland

A very rich pop mogul who can make or break a rising star !

Who is Clare? His girlfriend?

@poppydooleyy2600

4 жыл бұрын

It's a place in the south of ireland,called co clare, its in Ennis

@gingerjoe1972

4 жыл бұрын

@@poppydooleyy2600 is Ennis Clares boyfriend then?

Sneaky

He's not respecting the song and what it means.

My tube Nathan Carter docks in Liverpool