Lyric Ireland Poems

Gilgamesh O’Malley left his home in Fermanagh
With dreams of steaming plates of Irish stew.
He ate his last potato last time Sheamus paid the rent.
Since then,...

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Filigree
Celtic Filigree

Graceful filigree unbroken 
Weaves a tracery
With strands entwined
Like a whisper from the misty isles
Woven into whorls of melodic unity,
Indivisible spirals of the eternal three,
Thin...

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Kitty a row - a ree
	Kitty a ree – a row 
You ride a cow
	And I ride a mare
We’ll ride on home
	to see who’s the...

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They were Lilly Whites from Kildare,
And Boggers from County Clare,
Herring Gutters from Donegal
And Dubliner Jackeens.
They were Goat Suckers, Slaneysiders,
Magpies and Rossies.
They were Kellys, and Murrays,...

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Emerald Isle.  ( song )
.
One ... day I will return to the emerald isle
That I ..love
Where I was born
And my heart belongs
To chase the...

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I am of Ireland
(anonymous Medieval Irish Lyric, circa 13th-14th century AD)
translation by Michael R. Burch

I am of Ireland,
and of the holy realm of Ireland.
Gentlefolk I...

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Steep are the crags of the Macgillicuddy Mountains,
Steep are the mountains that slope down to the sea.
Deep are the streams and the fast flowing rivers,
Deep...

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With each turn of the tide,
The beach opens up wide, 
The Irish sands stretch for many a mile;
And all around can be seen
More than forty...

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My Galway girl dancing upon the river                  ...

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CELTIC GIRL
So like a morning summer rain
and it's thundering
she dances into light and sings
like only she can sing.

She has an Irish sort of smile
and deep...

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Song tribute to U2.

There's nothin like a song
that has a social message
and a hook that keeps you rockin

That irish band called U2
has a style and...

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IRISH WIDOW
It's a dreary kind of story, but a story young and old,
in a way already finished, in a way it's never told,
you can hear...

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DUBLIN GALLOWS       
DowN from Grafton Street near St. Stephen's Green,
I'd hear her cry sometimes til first of dawn,
the love...

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CELTIC DREAM
This land, as old as emerald's green
so delicate, a jewel serene
was hers and mine, a world at rest
from life that played out not at...

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IRISH GIRL LOVE SONG
Don't love an Irish girl.
She's gonna do you wrong.
She's a hard hearted woman
and she won't stay home.
I got some Irish blood
in my...

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