List of songs about Tipperary explained

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"^[1]
• "Éamonn an Chnoic" - about Éamonn Ó Riain, an Irish aristocrat who lived in County Tipperary from 1670 to 1724 and became a rapparee.^[2]
• "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^[3]
• “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^[4]
• "She Lived Beside The Anner"^[1]
• "Slievenamon" - one of the best-known Tipperary songs, written by Charles Kickham^[5]
• "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^{[6] [7]}
• ”Tipperary on my Mind”
• "Strolling Through Tipperary"
• "Streets of Mulllinahone"
• "Tipperary Hills For Me"
• "The Tipperary Christening"
• "Tipperary Far Away"^[4]
• "Tipperary" - a love song written in 1907 by Leo Curley, James M. Fulton and J. Fred Helf.
• "The Station of Knocklong"^[4]
• "Shanagolden" - written by Seán McCarthy. Recorded by Connie Foley, among others.^[8]
• "The Further it is From Tipperary" by Jack Norworth.

See also

• Music of Ireland

Notes and References

1. http://www.tradirishsongs.com/collection Dick Hogan, Songs of Tipperary
2. Web site: Socrates and Berkeley Scholars Web Hosting Services Have Been Retired | Web Platform Services.
3. Book: 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]
8. LP: Connie Foley Sings Ireland's Favourite Ballads