The Rocky Road To Dublin - The Ramparts 

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First viking music, then sea shanties, now irish pub music. I like this train I'm on

It all started with a like on a vid of a Irish girl at a wedding

This is the Ultimate way to do this song. In a pub, "randomly", amongst a bunch of strangers

Peak Ireland in the clutter of voices before they start: "Are you looking for work?" "I'm looking for a beer"

How the hell did I get here? Nevermind, it's gonna play on a loop for week now.

Sitting in a pub, drinking a pint, and hearing The Ramparts perform an Irish folk song just made the top of my bucket list.

Girl: I bet he goes to the pub to chat up other girls Him at the pub:

Ireland has mentally taken the world on its side. I completely fell in love with them.

im going to tell my kids that this is how pubs looked like before covid

GF: he’s probably cheating on me rn. The boys...

I lived in Dublin from 1972 to 1978. It was a magical time for Irish music.

My grandma used to sing us tons of songs like this just in Gaelic. Beautiful she was.

There is something about an all male choir. The tone is SO deep and full. Gets the blood up and stirs the spirit.

This is so Irish, that the glass of water I had before the video transformed into a pint of Guinness.

And not a single soul whipped up their phones and recorded. It's just an audience engrossed in that pure, nostalgic culture.

i know this is a performance, but honestly it just has that vibe of a bunch of bros having some drinks and breaking out in to song and i love it lmao

As a Russian this gives me goosebumps. It's hard to believe there was a time when this type of songs was sung across the Europe. Irish, Scandinavian, Spanish, Italian, Greek folk songs are great.

Harry Potter in front off sings absolutely gorgeous :o

A week ago today I visited Stag's Head and had a pint for you all! First time in Ireland, I cried on my last day, I didn't want to leave. Such an amazingly beautiful country full of the kindest people you'll ever meet. See you in Dublin soon.

I like to think the Irish and the Polynesians are cut from the same cloth. The men can sing and we love to drink😂😂

I would have died ten deaths of pure joy had I been in that pub at that moment!

There's something mystical that happens when enough people speak in unison: The voice that comes forth is almost always the same one, like some ancient, invisible beast invoked by chanting all together, channeling the voices of the entire choir to make itself heard. I call this beast the spirit of The Crowd, myself. It's a wild, fickle one.

The power of just the human voice alone is amazing.

Watching this on St Patrick's Day 2024!

This makes me want to fight the British and I’m British

that in the middle is daniel radcliffe, you can't deceive me, you're not tonks.

why doesn't this happen when I am in a pub/bar

シャーロック・ホームズの映画でこの曲を知って今では毎日1回は仕事終わりに聞いてます🎉

As a west virginian hillbilly, folk music is transcendant of cultures. Everyone can recognize soul and feeling. Everything from sea chanties to bluegrass to irish folk, its all the same. We all worked the same dirt, got the same blisters, and drank the same liquor at the end of the day

... it's nice that they all look at each other with every single note change like they did a magic trick. "Yeah, you hear that? It's different than before. Notice that?"

The best version I've heard ,the harmonising,I can hear every word,but it is often sung in a faster tempo

Великолепное исполнение! Браво!!! Привет ирландцам из далёкой Сибири.

I'm a young Black Dude from Baltimore, Md, USA and I LOVE LOVE LOVE Irish Folk Music. THIS WAS STRAIGHT DOPE. Props to these dudes for their vocal talents and love to my Irish Fam.

This is the most over the top version I ever heard of this song and I'm all here for it. That stuff is epic.

Wonderful song! I love Ireland and irish music, greetings from Italy! 🇮🇪🙌🏻🇮🇹

Don't you just love the Irish and their music?

I love how all of them look like different people from around the world but share one thing, embodying the Irish spirit

Some bloke sitting with his girlfriend thinking to himself, "Today I picked to leave the bodhran at home...I coulda been a star."

The time signature on this song messes with my head in all the right ways.

We love you Irish people from France 🇫🇷 🇮🇪

I cannot believe that this version hasn’t exploded the way it ought. We need to bring these lads over to Ireland to preform on RTÉ

This song makes me feel like pirate right after a successful mutiny. And it feels good

The word 'superb' doesn't even come close.

00:28 one day im gonna tell my kid that it was harry potter and his friends singing in the leaky cauldron.

I never really got to experience my Irish heritage, just because of how Americanized my family got over the generations. It makes me happy to experience part of who I am even though its not that prevalent in my life. Thank you for putting this out for other people to see, and I hope everyone, Irish or not, hears this and is able to just have a pint in peace.

lived in Dublin Ireland over 8 years for uni. one of the most beautiful cities to live in. its love grows onto you and the Irish people are so friendly. hopefully will go back again soon.

They just sang the hell outta that song.

i just love how the entire pub shut up when they started to sing

I would LOVE to walk into a pub in Ireland and find this. I’m from Cornwall and we have a similar tradition with the Pub Shout. It’s coming back in a big way, walking into a Cornish pub and hearing folk songs, shanties, traditional Cornish songs etc. It’s the most amazing feeling to be part of a shout and especially to lead on a few songs. Just brilliant.

It doesn’t matter where your from hearing the pride in your home country gives you goose bumps

*"Never sail with a crew who can't sing"* Edit: thank you for a hundred likes now SWAB THE DECK!

A 4th great-grandfather of mine migrated from Ireland to New South Wales in Australia. Cheers guys.

My grandmother, who was from Donegal must be smiling down from heaven as I play this video.

This has to be the sickest most savage version I've ever heard of this song It's flawless , if I were there they'd drink for free. Sorry but personly spine tingling I could go on

One million views! We can't believe it. Thanks everyone for watching and enjoying the video!

Probably the best unintentional commercial for Ireland

as a hungarian i must say this is perfection

Went to the Westcoast of Ireland in 2019 with my Brother on a roadtrip and felt in Love with this beautiful Island. Nice and friendly people, beautiful landscape, loveley music. Can't wait to visit it again with my Girlfriend, who traveld to Ireland two times. Greeting and happy St. Patricksday from Frankfurt, Germany.

The guys humming really knock this out of the park.

This is beautiful, Irish drinking songs don't get enough love

This is the only escape i have to Irish culture. Beers and Irish music. Now thats a perfect evening.🍺

It's been almost a year since I visited Stags Head and Dublin for the first time and I'm dying for another trip. I want out of America and I would love nothing more than to move to Ireland. I've been to many parts of the globe, but never had as great of time as I did driving through the island of Ireland. Love you all, the greatest people you will ever meet.

Fooking unbelievably brilliant 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

Phew, almost forgot to watch this today.

I almost never comment, but I randomly picked this rendition of rocky road to Dublin and was absolutely not disappointed. First time I've seen an a capella version, but I like it.

Folk music has been great for centuries. Bless its performers for passing the torch and adding their own touches. 🌹🍻👍

This is the first version of this song I've been able to understand all the words. With this many people singing it that is amazing! So clear! And all concerts should take place in a pub.

While in the merry month of May, from me home I started Left the girls of Tuam so sad and broken hearted Saluted father dear, kissed me darling mother Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born Cut a stout black thorn to banish ghosts and goblins Bought a pair of brogues rattling o'er the bogs And fright'ning all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin One, two, three, four, five, Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road All the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah In Mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary Started by daylight next morning blithe and early Took a drop of pure to keep me heart from sinking That's a Paddy's cure whenever he's on drinking See the lassies smile, laughing all the while At me curious style, 'twould set your heart a bubblin' Asked me was I hired, wages I required I was almost tired of the rocky road to Dublin One, two, three, four, five Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road All the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah In Dublin next arrived, I thought it such a pity To be soon deprived a view of that fine city So then I took a stroll, all among the quality Me bundle it was stole, all in a neat locality Something crossed me mind, when I looked behind No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin' Inquiring for the rogue, they said me Connaught brogue Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Dublin One, two, three, four, five Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road All the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah From there I got away, me spirits never falling Landed on the quay, just as the ship was sailing The Captain at me roared, said that no room had he When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy Down among the pigs, played some hearty rigs Danced some hearty jigs, the water round me bubbling When off Holyhead, I wished meself was dead Or better for instead on the rocky road to Dublin One, two, three, four, five Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road All the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah Well, the boys of Liverpool, when we safely landed Called meself a fool, I could no longer stand it Blood began to boil, temper I was losing Poor old Erin's Isle they began abusing "Hurrah me soul" says I, me Shillelagh I let fly Some Galway boys were nigh and saw I was a hobble in With a load "Hurray" joined in the affray We quietly cleared the way for the rocky road to Dublin One, two, three, four, five Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road And all the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah

Me to my wife: I’m going out for a pint with the boys 3 pints later:

I have been spoon fed on this great music all of my 62 years .born in Dublin as I was it makes me very honoured to be Irish in a humble way. I love our music. When you hear it you know immediately it's Irish. Erin go bragh. 🇮🇪🍺👍🇮🇪.

Love the fact a good few nationalities representing.

other people in the bar: hey we were trying to talking over here

As a Vietnamese I feel this beautiful. My favorite brand is Macallan

I love Ireland, I love Dublin and I love irish music 💚 greeting from Poland 💚

Beautiful rendition of the song. I can't stop listening to this.

Nothing beats a good ol bardcore on a 2 am shift.

My half homeland, I was born in Derry in 1972. french dad and irish mother. 💚💚💚

You can see in their faces that they actually enjoy things they do.

Easily the best version of this song that I've ever heard.

damn, I miss pubs. this is one of the most beautiful songs about "home" ever written and it brings tears to my eyes every single time.

As a barbershopper from St Louis USA, with Irish in my blood, I couldnt help but adore this. What I wouldnt give to travel and do a rehearsal with the group. And as a factory worker, Im gonna start listening to this on my way to work.

Man I’m from Dublin and chilling in Australia so I’m trying to memorise all the lyrics of every pub song like the rattling bog and I’ll tell me ma just in case four drunks break into song like this

I swear in my opinion, men who can sing sea shanties or celtic music are the sexiest men alive

This sync is more precise than my airpods with iphone

This makes me so proud to be Irish, even though I'm Australian.

Even the queen would like this

I'm so lucky that I can listen to this music on my sofa thanks to internet my ancestors would've to travel all the way to a pub in Ireland from India. Also glad that two Indian folks ( I assume) are part of this which shows that it's a welcoming society. Good luck 🇮🇪🇮🇳

I swore I was done with traditional music and sea-shanties for a while, and now I'm gonna get stuck back into them for a month. May have to bust out the fiddle, too...

men of culture

I’m a Cajun from South Louisiana. I love the fact that, no matter where we come from, the most powerful music that represents all of our respective cultures always comes from those who struggled and fought through adversity. That’s the true tie that binds us. This was truly moving.

As part of the scots/irish diaspora lads enjoying themselves fills me heart with joy. Fill your boots lads!

I once sat in a tavern with a friend, after the 12th beer we started singing old folk songs and the other people applauded us

Love how they continue building on the complexity of the chords and harmonies as the song progresses 🙌 can't get enough of it

From Irish Boston ................ The Irish are so happy and joyful folks..........PS: Thank God I'm Irish.....🌏😍

My hair turned red after listened to this

A true conductor holds a pint of Guinness while doing so. Well done lads. Well done indeed

This is what happens everytime I go to an Irish bar. Honestly, sometimes I just want to have a pint in peace.

Okay,.... started with Nordic Viking music and now made my way to Ireland with this gem!... Love this cultural train ride im on. Can't wait to see whats next, but forgive me as I stay here a while!...

Fecking brilliant. Truly Irish - and truly inclusive.