Dear Sir, Irish Ways and Irish Laws is not as your website states Traditional. It was written by John Gibbs and first recorded in 1981 by Moving Hearts.When the auther/ composer is more that 70 years dead the work goes into the public domaim. In this case I am happy to say that Mr John Gibbs the copyright owner is still alive,the work has been registered since 1981 with IMRO and MCPS.
[1979]
Testo e musica di Jim Page
Lyrics and music by Jim Page
HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI RUSSIAN ROULETTE: STORY OF A SONG
Jimmy Page interviewed by Robert Allen
http://www.bluegreenearth.us/archive/r...
"Way back in the mid 70's we had a governor here in Washington state named Dixie Lee Ray. She had been chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon and was full of herself. She loved nuclear power and hated environmentalists, and she invited everyone to send their waste here to Washington to be dumped at the Hanford site. She was famous for her superiority complex and would ask for your credentials if you challenged her on anything. Well, the Hanford site leaked and every once in a while it would hit the papers and the environmentalists would get on her case. One time after a particularly embarrassing incident she made the announcement that she was going to close Hanford until this... (Continues)
They dropped the bomb in '45 to end the world war (Continues)
Scritta dai soliti Steve Winwood e Jim Capaldi con Davy Spillane, cantautore e musicista irlandese, membro fondatore dei Moving Hearts
Dall'album "Far From Home" (1994)
What are we doing to this holy ground (Continues)
Contributed by Carlo Francesco RIDOLFI 2016/2/26 - 11:36
[1978]
Scritta da Mick Hanly
Nel disco collettivo intitolato “H-Block” realizzato per il Relatives Action Committee a supporto dei prigionieri repubblicani nord-irlandesi.
Incisa successivamente anche da Christy Moore e dai Moving Hearts (di cui sia Moore che Hanly hanno fatto parte)
Nel 1976 lo status di prigionieri politici, che i combattenti repubblicani dell’Ulster detenuti nelle prigioni inglesi erano riusciti ad ottenere dopo lo sciopero della fame nel 1972, fu revocato nel quadro di una nuova strategia, condivisa da labouristi e conservatori, di ricondurre la lotta di liberazione nordirlandese alla criminalità comune, negandone la valenza politica. La conseguenza immediata fu che i prigionieri repubblicani avrebbero dovuto uniformarsi ai regolamenti carcerari e, come prima cosa, indossare la divisa ordinaria. Ovviamente rifiutarono.
A cominciare la protesta fu Kieran Nugent (Ciarán... (Continues)
Scritta da Don Lange
da Dark End Of The Street - 1981
I have 3 versions of where I heard this song.
1. On AFN radio late one night I heard Peggy Seeger sing it out of Franfurt.(unlikely).
2. I heard Don Lange sing it in The Meeting Place Dorset St. Dublin.(even more unlikely).
3. The Dir. of L.E. in R.T.E. sent me a cassette after hearing me sing El Salvador(by Johnny Duhan) in The Felons Club In Andytown.( poss.).
It is a powerful song which never loses its potency. I first recorded it with Moving Hearts in 1983( Dark End of The Street) and again in 2002 ( ive at Vicar St.)
The author still writes,sings and records and,I am glad to say still sends me the occasional song