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"The Galway Races" is a traditional Irish song. The song's narrator is attending the eponymous annual event in Galway, a city in the west of Ireland. The song was made famous in the UK in 1967 by The Dubliners.
Recordings
"The Galway Races" has been recorded by a variety of artists, including:
- Jim McCann on the album The Craic Is 90
- Liam Clancy on the album Liam Clancy
- The Clancy Brothers on the albums Isn't It Grand Boys and Wrap the Green Flag
- Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy on the album Live at the National Concert Hall
- The Dubliners, on multiple albums
- The Wolfe Tones, on The Foggy Dew (1965)
- Paddy Reilly, on multiple albums
- The Chieftains, on the 1986 album Ballad of the Irish Horse, and by Kevin Conneff on the 1991 live recording An Irish Evening
- The Pogues on the 1986 album If I Should Fall From Grace With God
- Todd Menton on the album Punts (2003)
- Patrick Clifford on the album American Wake
- The High Kings on the 2020 album Home from Home
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