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Showing posts with label Paul Brady 'Arthur McBride'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Brady 'Arthur McBride'. Show all posts

Monday, February 16, 2026

Paul Brady - For it Being a Christmas Morning | Tigh Matt Molloy | Geantraí na Nollag 2009 | TG4 | ARTHUR McBRIDE

Paul Brady - For It Being a Christmas Morning | Tigh Matt Molloy | 

Geantraí na Nollag 2009 | TG4 

For Dave The Sealyman!

Dave dropped by to chat about the last version of this great song I posted by Paul Brady Arthur McBride on Dylan’s 80th Birthday (go seek it out) and all t’others as well [especially the filmic version with his promo vid when he first released it as a single]. and I mentioned this version which annoyed me for the reasons discussed below but I couldn't wait until next Christmas to post this version so this is here and mostly for our Dave who has always been a long standing and much appreciated supporter


Now this annoyed me . . . . . but how do you expect folks to find a particular song by an artist if you can’t even title it correctly . . .and an Irish source to boot!?

Paul Brady favourite especially at Christmas I couldn’t find this one to post on December 25th!
Why? Because it is a traditional Irish song called 'Arthur McBride' sometimes 'Arthur McBradie and the ?Sergeant' or even 'Arthur McBride and The Soldiers' . . . nowhere is it referred to as “It Being A Christmas Morning’which is a line from the first verse and that alone as far as I can tell here

Consequently I couldn’t find this wonderful version on Irish Television from channel TG4 in 2009
Nowhere on the header or titling is Arthur even mentioned! Now that is Irish!

It’s called blarney!

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Paul Brady - Arthur McBride

 A song for to rouse us from Christmas morning you say? . . . . . . . . why of course that calls for a tale of some rowdy dow-dow when English Soldiers tried in vain to raise recruits to the Queens Army from the Irish . . . . . . . . . . 

One for my Gaelic roots unashamedly! 


Long gathering dust on a shelf this is Tiernan McBride's 1977 film of Paul Brady's song 'Arthur McBride'. 
A wonderful document of a wonderful song.

Saturday, October 05, 2019

PAUL BRADY

Paul Brady is one of my favourite singer songwriters and I like to keep in touch with his website to see what he is up to. He has performed many of my favourite songs of all time and to pay respects to my Irish roots (on my mother's side of the family) this song stirs me in ways I can only guess at the origins thereof; injustice, revenge and the oppression of one folk by another . . . . a cracking tale and though it may have touch of the blarney about it, I choose to believe it is true and while wishful thinking it may be, I believe it happened this way . . . . . . 





and I will bid you 'Goodnight' with this one . . . . . . . 



a personally favourite performance I just can't resist posting this every time I hear it