Real Irish Music - Sweet Sixteen in O'Donoghues Pub 

When I was a very little girl (very many moons ago now) I was in my grandmas kitchen when she asked me to fetch her glasses from her bag in the sitting room. My grandfather was in the garden tending to the roses as I walked up the hall to get my grannies glasses for her. As I was about to leave the Sitting Room I was stopped dead in my tracks by the sound of my grandfathers beautiful singing voice. He had come in from the garden to give my grandma some of the roses and to sing this song to her. When I peeped round the corner of the doorframe I could see them in the kitchen at the end of the hallway, and they were dancing together as my grandpa sang. My grandad died when I was 9, and my grandma subsequently passed nearly 35 years ago now, yet when I hear this song and I close my eyes, I can see them dancing around the kitchen as vividly as if it happened only yesterday. Thank you for posting this beautifully played song.❤❤xxx

🇮🇪 I visited Ireland several times but only twice I have had the possibility to join such a private session in a pub😊 the atmosphere was always as marvellous as in this lovely video/I'm sending lots of greetings from Germany 🇩🇪🇮🇪🍀

I spent my 70 birthday listening to the jamming session in O’Donoghues ,my best birthday ever loved every minute.

Love the lady playing the banjo, shes brilliant, this songs so lovely ❤ x

Beautiful song, singing, musicianship......everything..so soulful...loved the banjo playing.... magic!

How beautifully that lady played the banjo!

Magical. The world needs more of you wonderful people x

God bless Ireland and her patriots

It cant get more beautiful than that!what a lovely performance by the lady on the banjo she played so well in timing with the singer.Thankyou😊❤

this is what makes great Music and song in a pub all welcome 🙂

How can anyone hear this beautiful song and not join in. Well played. 😊😊

Use to hear parents sing this. Great memories.

Real musicians real music to your ears....There is no substitute for real music! I enjoyed that, thank you!

just magic all the best from Australia x

Best ever on the Banjo!

Love the banjo holding it together. Fine player.

Best pub ,local,lovely people heart warming ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤞

Awalys loved this song i.m born irish live ïn holland over 50 years. Love ireland

Greetings for all, in County Clare

Love this lady playing the banjo🌹🌹

I almost started to tearing up listening to this beautiful Irish folk song, Feeling my Scott's Irish ancestry blood flowing through my veins, Lady playing the banjo was absolutely amazing

Crying my eyes out. Beautiful.

I worked there when Dessie hynes owned it what a gentleman to work for I loved it there

This is the real Irish how music was back when sadly today's a different story

1 of my mams songs, I love you av I've never loved before .I loved you as I've loved you.

lovely

I met my wife in O'Donoghues🥰

What a Quality voice that Man has! !

Thank you for this. This song along with some others remind me of my beautiful late wife, every time I hear it feels me with sadness and memories. I met my late wife when she was 16 and lost after 54 years Engaged when she was 18 married when she was 20. Lost her to cancer 205

No one can sing this like Finbar Furey. Irish soul singing at it's best

Perfect to end a night

I envy Ireland for it's music tradition. We do have traditional music in Sweden as well, but nothing like this.

A great sound. Fine singing and an excellent banjo player..!!

Watching from NZ. Wish I was there at this pub. Fabulous!

Oh how I would love to go to a old Irish bar 🙂

This is beautiful it gave me the goose bumps

Love Dublin and it's people. From a Scouser

Fabulous…and the lady behind is gorgeous too

Sweet sixteen is the most unreal Irish song you could ever get!!! I believe Perry Como had a hand in writing it. It is an American pop song!!!! For gods sake!!!!

Loved it! Thank you.

Good people playing good music.

James Thornton, the author of this song, I suspect was more American than anything else. A Vaudeville performer in America, he wrote it in 1898. His parents were Irish, but there is some doubt as to his place of birth, perhaps Ireland but maybe Liverpool England or even the good old U.S.A. How much a patriotic Irishman he was, seems open to question, but he was very much in love with his wife, for he wrote the song about her, and it is indeed gloriously sentimental song.

Love the Bangor great group of musicians

Amazing 🪕

Breaks my heart that proper pubs are dying out where I live. Now its just sport bars......no place to have have a drink and a good old singalong anymore.....

Beautiful song .❤

That lady played the banjo well fare play to her it so nice to be with the lovely muscinas thanks

Well sung & played..

Songwriter: James Thornton (1861-1936). First published by M. W. Fischer and company, New York, 1898.

Love love the Bango🌻😊

Fantastic! One of my favourite songs, whether by Al Jolson, Finbar, the Furey's or O'Donoghue's Bar. It makes me sick that I am English and found this so late in life.

Wonderful.

I loved the banjo! I tip my hat to you mam

Actually, sung by the Mills Brothers here in the USA in the 30’s. I love the song.

Mighty song🇮🇪👍

Thank you for sharing

BEAUTIFUL

Brilliant 🍺

You can't beat a couple of pints of the blackstuff and a good old time singsong.

Proper soul music enjoy a pint and enjoy great musicians salt of the earth

The Best. Authentic.

Gorgeous

Beautiful music

Beautiful

Lovely.

Loved it .......ta ❤

They should build a bridge from Liverpool to Dublin . This pub would be my local ha ha

Lovely banjo playing

Give the lady on the banjo a kiss from me xx

Forty years ago I tried one evening to get into O'Donohughe's but it was standing room only. Behind the din of conversation, I could hear a fiddle and a flute playing an Irish tune. A patron squeezed out of the crowd and said "God, you can hardly breathe in there!" It looked like I would have to fight my way to the bar, so I gave O'Donohughe's a miss. But back then you never could tell who was going to drop into the pub unannounced, maybe the likes of one of the Fury brothers, or the Chieftans, or Christie Moore, well-known singers who had played there before they became well-known. And by the way, the pub is in Merrion Row, not Suffolk Street.

Love this song

Brilliant 🎉🎉❤❤

Exquisite......

❤

Wonderful.... But I nearly cried watching that pint almost go off

Lady on banjo excellent

Nice...❤

Too good 😊 GBU

Ferry good Irish music

Tune❤x

This is what the UK was not now

That dark beer on the table made my mouth water

That ould doll handy on that banjo

UP IRELAND ❤

I WANT TO GO TO IRELAND

Only in Ireland.

🥰👋👏👏👏👏☘☘☘😘

Lady on the banjo though......

The banjo player is top women .

😱🥰🥰

Beautiful rendition , who is the lady on the banjo?

What chords are the guitar guys playing?

Is that Zelinski standing at the bar??

Barney ? You mean Finbar ffs

Why do people insist on talking when some is singing...very disappointing.

Why are they singing in English and not Gaelic (Irish)?

But it's in the fake O'Donohues.

The man with the terrible accent talking during the song is very bad.

Cheap banjo

Brilliant! ❤