I hate to see crowds of people around busker groups playing chart covers whereas solo buskers who are doing something different get ignored completely. See it all the time in Dawson Street and capel street.
It is a great rendition of Eric Bogle's song, and I'd like to think it's going to be one of the dozen or so folk songs of the 70s & 80s that lasts and lasts into the 22nd century. I can't think of anything, short of Kipling, or Dylan, that burrows so deep into what should be our revulsion and hatred of the futility and pathos of war. I first heard the song in 1981. I ran a folk club in Sydney, Australia where Eric was living at the time - it was a $1 at the door and maybe a 90 audience club where Eric might have got $20 at the end of the night. Many in the audience also heard it for the first time, and little did we know that 40 years later, millions of people all around the world, would hear it too. I was in Dublin in 2014 and again in 2017 and followed the music round the tourist and non-tourist pubs. From the tourist (eg. Gogarty's) to the locals' (eg.Cobblestone), I heard bands or soloists singing many of Bogle's songs - but only once heard them acknowledge the author - and that was at Gogarty's, where the author of "No Man's Land" was attributed to Finbar Furey! I don't usually front musicians in their break, but I couldn't help myself. I'd known Eric for 40 years, doing his sound engineering and working with the Sydney band "Raglan Road" doing concerts with him. The guy at Gogarty's insisted that "No Man's Land" was written by Finbar Furey. Nothing I said would convince him otherwise. Getting back to Australia, I messaged Eric, and he said he didn't really care - as long as the song lived on. Lord Byron! - take note!
Yes we do!!! and Dame Vera is known well to our local society, she sent us a letter for memorial just before the covid lockdown...... Tony in Normandie
the song is celebrated by both sets of religions about an unknown soldier who has no known grave its not about protestants or catholics ...its about showing respect for those who made the ultimate sacrifice ...
you are wrong its about the thousands maybe even tens of thousands of soldiers who have no known grave i have been to many seminars on the subject and have a degree on world war 2 history ..thats a fact...
I found it disturbing that so many folk walked by as if nothing was happening. It would have been good to see some of them absorbing these WELL MEANING words.
The song outlines the futility of wars, that war and all wars that do nothing but destroy the live s of so many people, we never listened then and we still don.t listen today. when will we learn there is no honour in war or is it something we should be doing to get what someone wants over others, in the use of the mobilisation of millions of young people who will never see the outcome..
taken from Wikipedia ,, "No Man's Land" (also known as "The Green Fields of France" or "Willie McBride") is a song written in 1976 by Scottish Australian folk singer-songwriter Eric Bogle, reflecting on the grave of a young man who died in World War I. Its chorus refers to two famous pieces of military music, "The Last Post" and "The Flowers of the Forest". Its melody, its refrain ("did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly"), and elements of its subject matter (a young man cut down in his prime) are similar to those of "Streets of Laredo", a North American cowboy ballad whose origins can be traced back to an 18th-century English ballad called "The Unfortunate Rake" and the Irish Ballad "Lock Hospital". In 2009 Eric told an audience in Weymouth that he'd read about a girl who had been presented with a copy of the song by then prime minister Tony Blair, who called it "his favourite anti-war poem". According to Eric, the framed copy of the poem was credited to him, but stated that he had been killed in World War I.[1]......... so not even an Irish song... really meant to make people reflect on the sacrifice made by so many during any war....
As a British man, i think we all agree this was a horrible time in history, times were different and men fought for a whole load of reasons. We will remember them all
I love history and singer's lick him very good I thank yung lads how love history like history secrets and csrprodochins87 and averymowser and me so good I love it I am Irish am 8 yes old I love history for 5years
the freedom of choice is not what i'm talking about. it's hard to explain in english, but there are a lot of people in Germany sitting in the streets waiting for you to drop a coin. They all live from social care and just sit there and do nothing to impress or entertain people. these people do not deserve to get a dime dropped
Probably the main reason is that these guys have their amplification turned way up and annoy a lot of people. I was in Puerto de la Cruz last week and listened to a guy for an hour playing a guitar with low amplification...He made at least €50 in one hour...
scottish song written by eric bogle. I knew this this song when it first came out.before the irish even heard about it. was called no mans land. theres nobody left in Ireland that has,nt covered this song and many other scots songs
How is it a controversial song. Its about an Irishman fighting in World War 1. 200000 Irish men fought in World War 1. And they didn't fight for Germany. What's controversial???
@@irishpride9867 Bit late, but war is always controversial. Theres so many ways to look at it. And I also think it had some anti british backstory. Bc the irish soldiers fought for the uk, which theyre not part of. And when the song was written there was some tension between the uk and ireland
Very good cepit up good singer good man very good I love history I read ww2 ww1 Vietnam and war in the apendents my nanny gret grandad was in that war I love history Cepe history alive I listen to ww2 ww2 Vietnam and irish story's and songs
