Kiss Me I’m Irish II – Part 2

“Ireland, a little island at the edge of Europe that has known neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment- in some ways, a Third World Country with, as John Betjeman claimed, a Stone Age culture- had one moment of unblemished glory. For, as the Roman Empire fell, as all through Europe matted, unwashed barbarians descended on the Roman cities, looting artifacts and burning books, the Irish, who were just learning to read and write, took up the great labor of copying all of western literature- everything they could get their hands on. These scribes then served as conduits through which the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian cultures were transmitted to the tribes of Europe, newly settled amid rubble and ruined vineyards of the civilization they had overwhelmed.

Van Morrison

Without this Service of the Scribes, everything that happened subsequently would have been unthinkable. Without the Mission of the Irish Monks, who singlehandedly refounded European civilization throughout the continent in the bays and valleys of their exile, the world that came after them would have been an entirely different one- a world without books. And our own world would never have come to be.” 

– Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

Thin Lizzy

01. Dropkick Murphys – “4-15-13” (2017)

02. Van Morrison – “Cyprus Avenue” (1968)

03. Van Morrison – “Astral Weeks” (1968)

04. The Clancy Brothers, Robbie O’Connell, Tommy Makem – “When the Ship Comes In (Live)” (1992)

05. The Undertones – “You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It?)” (1979) 

06. The Divine Comedy – “Tonight We Fly” (1994)

07. Sex Pistols – “Pretty Vacant” (1977)

08. Public Image Ltd – “Public Image” (1978)

09. Thin Lizzy – “Dedication” (1991)

10. The Gaslight Anthem – “Howl” (2012)

11. Sex Pistols – “Anarchy in the U.K.” (1977)

12. Dropkick Murphys – “Walk Away” (2003)

13. The Divine Comedy – “A Lady of a Certain Age” (2006)

14. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – “I’ll Tell My Ma (Live)” (1962)

15. Craig Finn – “Maggie I’ve Been Searching for Our Son” (2015)

16. The Cranberries – “Dreams” (1992)

17. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem – “Mountain Dew (Live)” (1961)

18. The Hold Steady – “Chillout Tent” (2006)

19. The Chieftains – “Dochas” (1977)

20. The Gaslight Anthem – “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” (2014)

21. The Gaslight Anthem – “’45’” (2012)

22. The Clancy Brothers – “Beer, Beer, Beer” (1970)

23. The Gaslight Anthem – “Great Expectations” (2008) 

24. The Gaslight Anthem – “Ain’t That a Shame” (2014)

25. Shane MacGowan – “Leaving of Liverpool” (2013)

The Chieftains

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