" Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " is a popular traditional Irish anti-war and anti-recruiting song.

The banjo is usually associated with country, folk, Irish traditional, and bluegrass music.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

This comb detail is also related to the centuries-old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees ( or mermaids — stories vary ), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.

In England, Scotland and Northern Ireland it is traditional for the Premier League, Scottish Premier League and Irish Premier League respectively, as well as the lower divisions and rugby leagues, to hold a full programme of football and Rugby League matches on Boxing Day.

The traditional music of Atlantic Canada is heavily influenced by the Irish, Scottish and Acadian ethnic makeup of much of the region's communities.

Later, beginning in 1982 with The Pogues ' invention of Celtic folk-punk and Stockton's Wing blend of Irish traditional and Pop, Rock and Reggie, there has been a movement to incorporate Celtic influences into other genres of music.

This may possibly explain the traditional spot in St. Peter's, where St. Gregory and St. Columba are supposed to have met ( Moran, Irish SS.

It is one of the distinct fiddle traditions within Irish traditional music.

In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is misleadingly used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of nouns following simple prepositions and the definite article.

* Dual ( album ), an album of traditional Scottish and Irish music recorded by Éamonn Doorley, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Julie Fowlis and Ross Martin, released 2008

It is prominent in Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish and other Celtic cultures within traditional or folk music and as a social and political symbol.

Irish traditional music stylists include John and Pip Murphy, Noel Battle, Austin Berry, James Conway, Andy Irvine, Mick Kinsella, Brendan Power, Joel Bernstein, Don Meade, Paul Moran, Tom Byrne and Rick Epping.

For example, Delhi 2 Dublin, a band based in Canada, is known for fusing Indian and Irish music, and Bhangraton is a fusion of Bhangra music with reggaeton, which itself is a fusion of hip hop, reggae, and traditional Latin American music.

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Irish traditional music sessions are mostly informal gatherings at which people play Irish traditional music.

... a gathering of Irish traditional musicians for the purpose of celebrating their common interest in the music by playing it together in a relaxed, informal setting, while in the process generally beefing up the mystical cultural mantra that hums along uninterruptedly beneath all manifestations of Irishness worldwide.

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As 26 of these traditional counties are located in the Republic of Ireland, many people, particularly Irish nationalists, refer to that state as " the 26 Counties " and to Northern Ireland as " the Six Counties ".

They base their Imbolc celebrations on traditional lore and customs derived from medieval Irish texts, and research into the older beliefs of the polytheistic Celts.

* The kilts worn by Irish pipe bands are based on the traditional Scottish garment but now in a single ( solid ) colour

In addition, Lyon & Healy makes smaller versions of the harp, which are known as folk harps ( based on traditional Irish instruments ) or lever harps ( which use levers to change the pitch of the string rather than pedals ).

The Wolfe Tones, an Irish rebel music band, wrote a song also called " Sunday Bloody Sunday " about the event.

The definition is further complicated by the fact that Irish independence has allowed Ireland to promote ' Celtic ' music as a specifically Irish product.

These styles are known because of the importance of Irish and Scottish people in the English speaking world, especially in the United States, where they had a profound impact on American music, particularly bluegrass and country music.

Musician Alan Stivell uses a similar dichotomy, between the Gaelic ( Irish / Scottish / Manx ) and the Brythonic ( Breton / Welsh / Cornish ) branches, which differentiate " mostly by the extended range ( sometimes more than two octaves ) of Irish and Scottish melodies and the closed range of Breton and Welsh melodies ( often reduced to a half-octave ), and by the frequent use of the pure pentatonic scale in Gaelic music.

Some of the first British-sanctioned settlers to the island following the Seven Years ' War were Irish, although upon settlement, they merged with local French communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition.

" His mother was another significant musical influence, encouraging him to listen to a variety of genres, including Irish folk music and Māori music.

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As a musical group Enya represents a partnership between three people: Enya herself, who composes and performs the music ; Nicky Ryan, who produces the albums ; and Roma Ryan, who writes the lyrics in various languages, except Irish, in which Enya will render the lyrics herself.

" My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music ," she said in a 1997 interview.

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Irish band Clannad featured the harp heavily in their music during the 1970s and 1980s.

The Gaelic Athletic Association, the Gaelic League and the cultural revival under W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, together with the new political thinking of Arthur Griffith expressed in his newspaper Sinn Féin and the organisations the National Council and the Sinn Féin League led to the identification of Irish people with the concept of a Gaelic nation and culture, completely independent of Britain.

Both systems have been compared with the concept of tanistry found in Early Irish Law, although the political reality appears to have been more complex.

Simek says that this original concept was " superseded by the shield girls — Irish female warriors who lived on like the einherjar in Valhall.

The poet and mythologist Robert Graves asserts that certain elements of that mythology originate with the native Pelasgian people ( namely the parts related to his concept of the White Goddess, an archetypical Earth Goddess ) drawing additional support for his conclusion from his interpretations of other ancient literature: Irish, Welsh, Greek, Biblical, Gnostic, and medieval writings.

He awaited the development of events while saying little about the topic publicly, but Chamberlain privately damned Gladstone and the concept of Home Rule to colleagues, believing that maintaining the Conservatives in power for a further year would make the Irish question easier to settle.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

The site's history is muddled partly because of the activities of William Goodwin, who became convinced that the location was proof that Irish monks ( the Culdees ) had lived there long before the time of Christopher Columbus, a concept he sought to publicize.

Goddesses named for and representing the concept Liberty have existed in many cultures, including classical examples dating from the Roman Empire and some national symbols such as the British " Britannia " or the Irish " Kathleen Ni Houlihan ".

Always a journalist who courted controversy, among the targets of his disapproval were television figures such as Pat Kenny and a concept he called " Official Ireland "— by which he meant the Irish media and cultural elite, epitomised by the newspaper The Irish Times and then President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.

Media Lab Europe, based in Dublin, Ireland, was founded with a similar concept in association with Irish universities and government.

After the acquisition of the Irish business by Tesco, the brand was completely replaced by Tesco own-brands, including the similar in concept Tesco Value, using white rather than yellow packaging ).

This was the invention of Irish scientist John Joly, although he, like so many other inventors, eventually discovered that his basic concept had been anticipated in Louis Ducos du Hauron's long-since-expired 1868 patent.

Parliamentary sovereignty was further undermined by the Irish Free State Constitution Act 1922, which effectively recognised the concept of consent rather than the law as the source of legitimacy, and the United Nations Act 1946 which bound the UK to an external organisation and restricted parliament's absolute sovereignty.

A past may still be suggested for a certain legal concept based on Irish legal terms ' being cognate with terms in other Celtic languages, although that information does not prove that the practice described by the legal term has not changed.

Irish poet W. B Yeats developed the concept of poetic inspiration being the result of a conflict between the poet and his ' Daemon ' ( which he considered the disembodied spirits of the dead ) in his works of occult speculation such as ' A Vision '( 1925 ),

They have performed or recorded with the Irish group The Chieftains, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on their No More Shall We Part album, Emmylou Harris on her albums Bluebird, Wrecking Ball, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, Light of the Stable, Stumble into Grace, and All I Intended to Be, Lou Reed on his concept album The Raven, Joan Baez on her live recording Ring Them Bells, Gilles Vigneault on “ Charlie-Jos ” on his album C ’ est ainsi que j ’ arrive à toi, and Robin Holcomb on her 2002 album The Big Time.

Pious legend credits Patrick with banishing snakes from the island, and legend also credits Patrick with teaching the Irish about the concept of the Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a 3-leaved clover, using it to highlight the Christian belief of ' three divine persons in the one God '.

Folk music, in the original sense of the term as coined in the 18th century by Johann Gottfried Herder, is music produced by communal composition and possessing dignity, though by the late 19th century the concept of ‘ folk ’ had become a synonym for ‘ nation ’, usually identified as peasants and rural artisans, as in the Merrie England movement and the Irish and Scottish Gaelic Revivals of the 1880s.

The Holden train was a new concept in Irish tourism.

The concept of Atlantic 252 can be traced back as far as August 1986, when Irish state broadcaster RTÉ announced it was to use their allocated longwave channel for a new pop music station.

Formed in 1970, Horslips were the first Irish group to have the terms ‘ Celtic rock ’ applied to them, produced work that included traditional Irish / Celtic music and instrumentation, Celtic themes and imagery, concept albums based on Irish mythology in a way that entered the territory of progressive rock all powered by a hard rock sound.