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

  • “Any Tipperary town” -written by Pat Ely, recorded by many artists including Daniel O'Donnell.
  • “Brennan on the Moor” - 19th Century ballad.
  • "Cill Chais" - a lament related to the family at Kilcash Castle.
  • "The Bansha Peeler"
  • "Éamonn an Chnoic" - about Éamonn Ó Riain, an Irish aristocrat who lived in County Tipperary from 1670 to 1724 and became a rapparee.
  • "Fair Clonmel"
  • "Flynn of Ballinure"
  • "Galtee Mountain Boy"
  • "The Glen of Aherlow" (also known as "Patrick Sheehan") - based on the true story of a young ex-soldier from the Glen of Aherlow named Patrick Sheehan who was blinded at the Siege of Sevastopol.
  • "Goodbye Mick (Leaving Tipperary)" - recorded by P.J. Murrihy and by Ryan's Fancy
  • “Home to Aherlow”
  • “It's a Long Way to Tipperary”, British Music hall song written in 1912 by Henry James "Harry" Williams and co-credited to Jack Judge.
  • "The Hills Of Killenaule" - music by Liam O’Donnell and lyrics by Davy Cormack, both from Killenaule
  • "Michael Hogan"
  • "Munster Hurling Final"
  • "My Old Tipperary Home"
  • “Rare Clonmel”
  • "Seán Treacy" - ballad about Seán Treacy, leader of the Third Tipperary Brigade, IRA, who was killed in Dublin in 1920
  • "She Lived Beside The Anner"
  • "Slievenamon" - one of the best-known Tipperary songs, written by Charles Kickham
  • "Sliabh na mBan" - an Irish-language song composed by Michéal O Longáin of Carrignavar and translated by Seamus Ennis, about the massacre in July 1798 of a party of Tipperary insurgents at Carrigmoclear on the slopes of Slievenamon
  • ”Tipperary on my Mind”
  • "Strolling Through Tipperary"
  • "Streets of Mulllinahone"
  • "Tipperary Hills For Me"
  • "The Tipperary Christening"
  • "Tipperary Far Away"
  • "Tipperary" - a love song written in 1907 by Leo Curley, James M. Fulton and J. Fred Helf.
  • "The Station of Knocklong"
  • "Shanagolden" - written by Seán McCarthy. Recorded by Connie Foley, among others.
  • "The Further it is From Tipperary" by Jack Norworth.

See also

References

  1. ^ Dick Hogan, Songs of Tipperary
  2. "Socrates and Berkeley Scholars Web Hosting Services Have Been Retired | Web Platform Services".
  3. Walton, Martin. Treasury of Irish Songs and Ballads. Dublin: Walton's Music.
  4. ^ Desmond Ryan: Sean Treacy and the 3rd Tipperary Brigade (see Appendix). The Kerryman, Tralee, 1945.
  5. Dr. Mark F. Ryan,Fenian Memories, Edited by T.F. O'Sullivan, M. H. Gill & Son, LTD, Dublin, 1945
  6. Terry Moylan (Ed.): The Age of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition, 1776 to 1815
  7. Tom Munnelly's notes to 1978 recording by Al O'Donnell on the Leader label
  8. LP: Connie Foley Sings Ireland's Favourite Ballads
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