The best and worst renditions of âDanny Boyâ for St. Patrick s Day
It is the most played song in Irish history â and maybe American too â but from a cast of thousands of singers and players we have picked the best and worst versions of âDanny Boy.â
IrishCentral Staff
Mar 15, 2021
Elvis Presley s version of Danny Boy is one of the most popular renditions of the famous song. Getty
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Comments Songs of the Emerald Isle, an Irish travelogue from 1955, is now available to watch for free on the Irish Film Institute s IFIPlayer as part of their St. Patrick s Day Collection.
This short film Songs of the Emerald Isle presents five much-loved Irish airs and ballads against a backdrop of the Irish landscape.
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Bing Crosby sings “How Can you Buy Killarney?” (from his St Patrick’s Day Parade album), John Feeney sings “The Connemara Shore,” and Connie Foley sings “Lovely Leitrim.”
These songs of yearning and nostalgia are illustrated with images of Irish Travellers, fishermen, foresters and farmers, ancient monuments, rich farmlands, seascapes, and the River Shannon.
John McDonagh drove a New York City yellow taxi for 40 years. This is his story.
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John McDonagh, who drove a New York City yellow taxi for 40 years, has turned his play Off the Meter, On the Record into a book called On the Meter, Off-Broadway, which will be published later this year.
Under the direction of Ciaran O’Reilly, Off the Meter, On the Record wowed audiences during a three-month run at the Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan. John McDonagh is bringing it to the Sean O’Casey Theatre in Dublin and the Abbey Arts Centre in Co. Donegal later this year.
President Joe Boden will host Taoiseach Martin for a virtual bilateral meeting on St. Patrick's Day that will focus on the coronavirus pandemic and the political situation in Northern Ireland, the White House has confirmed.