This is the song my grandad loved he passed away in 1st September 2021... He wanted it as his funeral song but noone listened to me....so right now I am beside his baby coffin "ashes" on his bed playing this song ...I took care of him for the last few months and knew his favourite songs but this one is beautiful... I drank a whiskey on his last night with him and slept beside him and held his hand and thanked him for been my grandad...but this is the song he treasured and it's so heart crushing to know noone listened to me about his funeral song and the song they played was by far a song he would have hated as he requested this song for his funeral crematorium ... Sad but now I get to listen to it a couple to times for the next 4 weeks till he gets buried...RIP Martin mulhall you will always be loved and treasured by your grandson

@patriciaattwood5871

2 жыл бұрын

This is. A beautiful song 😘

@andrewjames1366

2 жыл бұрын

I feel for you but don’t dwell on the opportunity that others missed. Instead, treasure this song as a special connection that just the two of you had. And whenever you hear it, feel free to unabashedly cry or rejoice - whatever you heart tells you to do.

@glynnparry1974

2 жыл бұрын

I played this version at my dads funeral last year. He loved this song so much.

@gregeastham6755

2 жыл бұрын

sorry for your loss, treasure your memories, you will meet again, truly a beautiful song. RIP Martin.

@nemqueteba3139

2 жыл бұрын

¡Qué hermosos sentimientos por tu abuelo! Mis respetos por los recuerdos que vas a conservar para siempre. No te aflijas. Mientras tú vivas y escuches esta, "su canciôn", su alma abrazará la tuya, y algún día él te recibirá con alegría allí donde está. Saludos desde Chile.

I’m from Liverpool and lived in NYC got to sing this with him at 2am at his bar on Lexington Ave. I still re live to this day almost 30 years later. Why can’t we just get on !!!!!!!!!

I'm from Poland, but still think this is the best 'Hope" song of all time.

One of my dads favourite songs who i lost october 2023 few wks before his 79th birthday, (11/11) we got this played at his funeral, i have fond memories of him singing this with a grouse whiskey n lemonade in hand. Miss him so much! Thankyou dad for 41 amazing years and teaching me guitar and for loving ur 6 kids more than ever! Rip dougie xx

@jackietommy9580

20 күн бұрын

Mein Beileid, ich liebe dieses Lied😭

This song makes me cry. "Spirit is bruised, but never broken."

This song makes me proud to be Irish. And I am not even Irish. ❤️🇮🇪

@pentangle78

Жыл бұрын

i relate. totally

@sbhj6705

11 ай бұрын

Me too

@andyyorath2732

10 ай бұрын

I’m Welsh and need to make that distinction because of the disgusting treatment of the Irish over the centuries by our neighbours in England.. A very contemporary and pared down but oh so soulful interpretation of this song is by the wonderful young singer/songwriter Zoe Clarke and for me is the most beautiful of all. Zoe busks her own material and covers on Grafton St. and for anybody who doesn’t know her material look her up here on YT, particularly her version of this classic.

@Pa_700

9 күн бұрын

Im portuguese been here in Ireland since I was child (1999). I Love Ireland

Lived in Cong, County Mayo for 12 years growing up. As an Englishman, I've never received such welcome and sense of community despite the historical rivalry between our two great nations. I will always remember that small, beautiful countryside town but whenever I hear this song I can't help but shed a tear for my love of that place. God bless.

@sherp2u1

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mate....we forgive, but don't forget...You're still more than welcome!

Phil Coulter, one of the most prolific songwriters of all time, said that in 100 years if he could be remembered for one thing he wishes it would be for writing this song.

Paddy Reilly.... Massive voice 🍀👏💙🎶

My mother was from Derry. She's been gone nearly 2 years now. I'm missing her very badly today.

@Paulhanratty885

Жыл бұрын

Keep your head up mate👍

This song kills me 😢 I can’t listen without crying my eyes out! Imagining my granny and aunts all working in the shirt factory. All the sacrifices the mothers and fathers made for their families as that is what truly matters. Love and blessings to everyone, while many of us are far away our beloved Derry always calls us home ❤

@pentangle78

Жыл бұрын

❤

@bandieboo8102

10 ай бұрын

Beautiful msg...Thank you. Love and Blessings to you too from Australia ..

this is the song my grandma always sings to me. She is 104 years old 👍

@mharris5047

Жыл бұрын

Wow! I wonder what really goes through the mind of a person that lives to 100 plus. I am almost 77, my mother passed in 2020 and my father is still alive. With my health I thought I would pass away before any of my parents but it didn't work out that way.

@hcm444

Жыл бұрын

That's lovely. I hope your granny is still singing to you!

@dadama925

14 күн бұрын

This song is only 51 yrs old. Your grandma would have learnt it in her 50s.

A heartbreak yet beautiful delivery of how things were in my hometown Derry. Paddy Reilly's voice has carried me away for years. One of the best! Thank you for this song Phil Coulter. Connects us all.

They are my favorite singers ever!! If they came here, i'd hitch a ride back with them to spend whats left of my life!♥

Im a Northern Ireland studies student. I study a fair amount of history and complicated issues in belfast. While this song is about Derry i feel deeply touched while thinking that it must have been a similar story in Belfast. Just hope the peace is a durable one and no more hatred and violence in Northern Ireland.

Such a poignant song for the trouble current world situation- war solves nothing, only creates Orphans, widows, and blood shed, heart break, tears. What we need is hope❤🙏

I've seen you 3 times in the later 90th. YOU ARE THE ORIGINAL! Pure and simple. Send greetings to Ronnie in heaven! ❤❤❤

❤Well sung Paddy R, God bless you and families Good sounds last, thanks,Michael

I was born in the bogside in the 50s. Lived in London since the 70s. This song always brings a tear to my eye

This is my grandas favorite song, he got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer not long ago, me and my cousin learned it for him

great song for all who loved Ireland

If you listen to the quality of paddy reilly's voice versus him singing the same song 20-30-40 years before, today's voice has a much fuller and deeper quality to it. Perhaps it is all the nights in the pubs and concert halls, but I certainly love today's version. God bless Paddy Reilly.

@scot2622

8 ай бұрын

The same thing happened to lenord cohen

You can hear the heartache in Paddy's voice...

I’m not from Ireland, but that song brings tears to my eyes “We’re Irish not because we were born in Ireland, but because Ireland was born in us” forever my favourite country 🧡

@patrickconnors9448

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@mariafahey750

3 жыл бұрын

Please make sure to visit Ireland x

@j.s.connolly8579

3 жыл бұрын

My Grand Father was from Inisheer. I was named after him. I was born Second Gen. "Fenian" Irish and this stuff goes RIGHT to My Soul! I Miss My Grandpa and My Parents and Sisters SO MUCH! This stuff just KILLS me! :(...

@adriankelly3234

2 жыл бұрын

@@mariafahey750 derry people are as resilient as you will ever meet

@mariafahey750

2 жыл бұрын

@@adriankelly3234 i have no doubt💜

This song was played as we carried my dad's coffin it was his favourite he passed away Christmas day 2020 I miss him so much

@Paulhanratty885

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for your loss😢

This is an incredible song. True poetry. I can feel it in my heart. Celtic Brothers, may God bless you

@pentangle78

Жыл бұрын

❤

Totally pure dead brilliant 👏 from all the Irish celtic family in Glasgow hail hail

You don’t have to be Irish to love this or she’d a tear love it Dinger

God love the people and their towns and damn the outsiders

Dad used to play this to me as a kid.. passed away on the 17th December 2020. Very proud of my irish blood and I take great peace that hes up there wherever that may be with all his brothers drinking guuness and putting the world to rights!!! This world will never be the same again without you here mate.. but ur now at peace and dont u worry, il look after our girls.. till I see uagaian dad this will always be our song!! Love ya.x

@Matt-Durham

3 жыл бұрын

RIP I'm sorry for your loss

@jimmaguire9055

3 жыл бұрын

🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮 rip 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮

@shannon6108

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmaguire9055 that's the ivory Coast 😭

@janethutchison7953

3 жыл бұрын

A very touching story. thank you for sharing

@InTheNow2020

3 жыл бұрын

My condolences to you and yours, on your dad's passing. I was just thinking about my dad and this song today, as I came across your comments. My father also passed away, on October 15, 2020 and he used to play this song on the record player back in the 70', 80's and 90's, as a youngster, if you can believe it. He was a true Dubliner, if there ever was one. He and I were both born in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. I live in Vancouver, Canada and will make the trip back to Dublin next year to spread his and my mom's ashes in a suburb called Marino, where we lived for a short time, before emigrating to Canada in the late 60's. And yes for sure, we will see you again in Ireland. Best wishes.

My dad used to sing this song to me when I was little ❤

Such an amazing song. Tragic that so many people are completely unaware of the amazing, heart felt and heartbreaking lyrics in traditional Irish music. 💙

@SouldOutMotorcycles

3 жыл бұрын

I'm listening on new year's eve 2020 , what happened to the world that we loved so well?

@bernardhorner9196

2 жыл бұрын

I am 82 now and always wanted to go t IRELAND I LOVE THERE MUSIC wish i had gone now

Such a rich and heartfelt voice.

There is something about the quality of paddy reilly's voice that has a richness to it. I don't know how to explain it, but his voice is very comforting to my ear. God bless us all.

@susanbradshaw3388

2 жыл бұрын

I find baritone voices very easy to listen to, also. His voice has a wonderful depth to it.

@djh784

Жыл бұрын

Comforting, that's the word to describe this performance.

Je suis un nomade et cette chanson me tire les larmes! merci

Friggin Paddy Reilly’s voice is smooth and salty like my tears

My da loved this song so much and we played this for him as his final song xxx

This man’s voice just hits different - my favourite voice in Irish music, instantly recognisable. I’m 38 and we used to listen to a cassette tape of one of his live shows in the car when I was a kid 😂😍

Way back in the late 1960s and early 70s I used to go to their concerts on the rare occasions they came to Edinburgh and they played to packed houses. Along with The Corries and The Clancy Brothers surely they must rate as the greatest folk groups ever.

Living LEGEND... An Irish Ballads!

❤ i love this song

@TheDublinersOfficial

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Hits right in the chest... Even if you're not Irish🎯❤️

@fmacilvie44

Жыл бұрын

I wish A hard the rappers anger and this is what matter. Please put it all all selfishness Americans an their hate of calm goodness

I can´t listen it without seeing "a movie" in my mind. I´m not from Ireland, but I think I can feel evrey single word.

He sang it many times on his own. But this is the best version of it. Paddy rielly

Brought up hearing this sad song...

I’m not from Ireland but a friend is Irish we was going fishing one day and he put on his Irish cd. Every since then iv fall in love with it 🥰🤟🏽

Best ever Vergil I Best ever version of this I have heard frantic brillent

So many of us have the town we loved so well. For me it's Buchans. Smack dab in the middle of the island of Newfoundland. A base metal mining town in its roots. No place like it on earth.

To me luke Kelly will never be beaten even do I was only 3 when he died but I love paddy and all the great singers r little country has produced respect to all people

Love this god save Ireland

O lord what a beautiful song God bless you all a million times x

My dads favourite song 17years today he passed away love all these songs bring tears of good memories x

Means so much in these times when I can’t go back to my home city...........🙏🏻

@dianefallahi7133

3 жыл бұрын

Rob dont know you but you will go back one day, av hope

Paddy is one of Ireland's great folk singers he played in our folk club in the late 60s in lurgan norther Ireland the voice is still as good

beautiful song

Paddy sings this great song so well , a song written by Phil Coulter. . Phil never wrote it as a political song. But it became a song that describes the City of Derry and the People who suffered from the Usurpation from a mighty foreigner that WILL NEVER EVER DESTROY THE DERRY PEOPLE

Aint getting bigger , love Dubliners forever ♥️

quite simply, the best version i have ever heard. Great voice.

@barneybockie5381

3 жыл бұрын

Luke Kelly

@jbv776

3 жыл бұрын

@@barneybockie5381 in a league of his own

@jbv776

3 жыл бұрын

this is a beautiful performance of a beautiful song though

@udovogel6982

2 жыл бұрын

High Kings !!

@Sassafras08

2 жыл бұрын

Its good, but it’s not Luke Kelly

For me one of the most beautiful Irish love song for this beautiful town

Love luke singing this beautiful song

And when times got rough there was just about enough ! What a line! reminds me of Fogerty’s proud Mary / you don’t have to worry cause you got no money People on the river are happy to give ...

I’m listening to it now for your Grandad and for you. I raise my glass to you both.God Bless.

I love Paddy’s and Ronnie’s versions in equal measure. Both perfect voices on different spectrums.

So good to remember where I came from it's been to long

Absolutely to the point in terms of lyrics and tune to reflect the irish mood in Tho se disconsolate days of the 70s and 80s. I love Derry, too for its landscpe and the hospitality of the Local people

Thanks ❤all ❤Beautiful ❤️ Songs ❤️

Absolutely Awesome. I could listen to this literally over and over again. Paddy - take a bow.

Avec paddy reilly le talent est toujours là pour de belles chansons 🎶 🎵🎶

When I was on an university exchange program in Limerick, 30y ago- I learned to know this fantastic song; tears in my every time😊

Thank you so much for we made the Irish and a wider part of the British and Scandinavian society....Thank god...They are so great!

Excellent. Paddy has a good voice for this one.

Wonderful Performance and Beautifully Sung 😊🙏☘️

Their music is timeless and precedes most of today's music. One never gets tired of listening to their songs

😊Dubliners THE BEST ❤❤❤👍👍🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

🇮🇪 thanks for keeping it real long live ireland

Beautiful

great song 💫💕

Beautiful song ♥️♥️👍🙏🎸🎵

Absolutely Brilliant

Good man Paddy

Bonita voz, me encanta. Gracias paddy

Super song ....Great proformas by the Great Dubliners and Paddy ..

Paddy never lost it

I love this song so much it really makes me think about what my Irish relatives might’ve gone through in Ireland in the mid 1800s. This is my favorite version my other favorite version is by the Irish tenors if you haven’t heard the Irish tenors version it’s great

Beautiful song sung beautifully thanks Phil for giving us such a gem

Lovely the great Paddy !!

Isn't he such a genuine and lovely guy!

Thanks pady

It's a beautiful song. It makes me well up both for the loss of the past and the hope for the future. God bless Derry.

@jimdalziel2317

3 жыл бұрын

You mean Londonderry.

@paulmcstay546

3 жыл бұрын

Nah. I know exactly what I meant.

@jimdalziel2317

3 жыл бұрын

You mean God bless LONDONDERRY 1690

@paulmcstay546

3 жыл бұрын

Aaaaaand relax. Welcome to 2021. Happy New year, Jim!! 🎉🍻

@dianebridges9257

3 жыл бұрын

Jim Jim Jim please keep your thoughts in Londonderry while the rest of us love Derry

Luke Kelly was my favorite one of All, But this guy was definitely next in line to luke Kelly!! Very Good voice!!

@sgtjeff56

2 жыл бұрын

Not taking anything away from Luke but I actually like Paddy Reilly's version better

Such beautiful lyrics listening to the great music instead of sleeping. Thank you xx

@patrickmccarthy3123

3 жыл бұрын

Kay suggest you listen to Danny Boy sung by the great judith durham beautiful song ,beautiful singer

@wmeemw994

3 жыл бұрын

Dubliners ‘The Town That I Loved So Well’ In my memory I will always see The town that I have loved so well Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall And we laughed through the smoke and the smell Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane, Past ther gaol (jail) and down behind the fountain, Those were happy days in so many, many ways In the town I loved so well. In the early morning, the shirt factory horn Callde women from Creggan, the moor and the bog While their men on the dole played a mother's role Fed the children and then trained the dogs. And when times got tough, there was just about enough But they saw it through without complaining For deep inside was a burning pride In the town I loved so well There was music there in the Derry air Like a language that we all could understand I remember the day when I earned my first pay When I played in a small pick-up band There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth I was sad to leave it all behind me For I learned about life and I found a wife In the town I loved so well But when I returned how my eyes have burned To see how a town could be brought to its knees By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars And the gas that hangs on to every breeze Now the army's installed by the old gas yard wall And the damded barbed wire gets higher and higher With their tanks and their guns oh my God what have they done To the town I loved so well Now the music's gone but they carry on For their spirit's been bruised, never broken They will not forget but their hearts are set On tomorrow and peace once again. For what's done is done and what's won is won And what's lost is lost and gone forever I can only pray for a bright, brand new day In the town I loved so well.

@damienfarrelly792

3 жыл бұрын

Beautil song love

Fantastic 🇮🇪

what ❤Beautiful ❤️ amazing ❤️ Songs

Tears in my eyes...sorry..

Beautiful❤️

incredible

A song of PEACE

I am Irish and my dad met this man at new York pelin bay

But when I returned how my eyes have burned To see how a town could be brought to its knees By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars And the gas that hangs on to every breeze Now the army's installed by the old gas yard wall And the damded barbed wire gets higher and higher With their tanks and their guns oh my God what have they done To the town I loved so well 😢 this part of the songs really gets me a town they loved so well with their tanks and guns oh god what have done 😢to a town I loved so well 😢

Beautiful xx