Young Ned Of The Hill - Music
Young Ned Of The Hill by The Pogues
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Artist Biography For The Pogues
The Pogues Is A Celtic Punk Band From London Formed In 1982 And Fronted By Shane MacGowan. The Band Reached International Prominence In The 1980s And Early 1990s. MacGowan Left The Band In 1991 Due To Drinking Problems But The Band Continued First With Joe Strummer And Then With Spider Stacy On Vocals Before Breaking Up In 1996. The Band Including MacGowan Reformed In 2001 And Has Been Playing Regularly Ever Since. While The Band Has Not Released An Album Since 1996 They Are Credited With Inventing Celtic Punk And Have Had A Large Influence On The Larger Celtic Fusion Scene. The Band Was Awarded The Life-Time Achievement Award At The Annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards In February 2006. The Pogues Were Founded In King's Cross A District In North London In 1982 As Pogue Mahone - "pogue Mahone" Being The Anglicisation Of The Irish Póg Mo Thóin Meaning "kiss My Arse". The Band Specialised In Irish Folk Music Often Playing With The Energy Of The Punk Rock Scene From Which Several Of The Members Had Their Roots. Their Politically-Tinged Music Was Reminiscent Of The Clash With Whom They Played Joe Strummer Produced One Of Their Albums And Even Joined The Group Briefly And Used Traditional Irish Instruments Such As The Tin Whistle Banjo Cittern Mandolin Accordion And More. In The Later Incarnations Of The Band After The Departure Of Shane MacGowan Electronic Instruments Such As The Electric Guitar Would Become More Prominent. The First Of The Pogues' Albums Red Roses For Me Borrows Much From The Punk Tradition Of MacGowan's Previous Band The Nipple Erectors Later Dubbed The Nips . Band History
Shane MacGowan Vocals James Fearnley Accordion And Spider Stacy Tin Whistle Were The Original Members Of The Pogues In The Days When They Busked On The Streets Of London. Before The Rest Of The Group Formed MacGowan And Stacy Were Rumoured To Have Played Impromptu Performances On Street Corners And City Buses Which Attracted Local Interest To Their Talent. They Later Added Jeremy 'Jem' Finer Guitar Banjo Cait O'Riordan Bass And Andrew Ranken Drums . The Band Rapidly Developed A Reputation Started Releasing Independent Work And Ended Up Opening For The Clash On Tour In 1984. Shortening Their Name To "The Pogues" Due To Lack Of Radio Play For The Curse In Their Name They Released Their First Album Red Roses For Me That October. Phil Chevron Guitar Joined The Group Soon After Then With The Aid Of Punk And New Wave Forefather Elvis Costello They Recorded The Follow Up Rum Sodomy & The Lash In 1985 The Album Title Is A Famous Comment Attributed Probably Falsely To Winston Churchill And Others In Describing The Traditions Of The British Royal Navy . The Album Cover Featured The Raft Of The Medusa Though The Faces On The Characters In Géricault's Painting Have Been Replaced With Those Of The Band Members. While The First Album Had Featured A Higher Percentage Of Traditional Songs Shane MacGowan Came Into His Own As A Songwriter With This Disc Offering Up Poetic Story-Telling Such As "The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn" And "The Old Main Drag " As Well As Definitive Interpretations Of Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town" And Eric Bogle's "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda " The Latter Of Which Has Become More Popular Than The Original Recording. The Band Failed To Take Advantage Of The Momentum Created By The Strong Artistic And Commercial Success Of Their Second Album. They First Refused To Record Another Album Offering Up The 4 Track EP Poguetry In Motion Instead O'Riordan Married Costello And Left The Band To Be Replaced By Bassist Darryl Hunt And They Added A Multi-Instrumentalist In Terry Woods Formerly Of Steeleye Span. Looming Over The Band At This Period As Throughout Their Entire Career Was The Increasingly Erratic Behaviour Of Their Vocalist Principal Songwriter And Creative Visionary Shane MacGowan. Success & Breakup
The Band Remained Stable Enough To Record If I Should Fall From Grace With God In 1988 With Its Christmas Hit Duet With Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale Of New York" And 1989's Peace And Love. The Band Was At The Peak Of Its Commercial Success With Both Albums Making The Top 5 In The UK Nos. 3 And 5 Respectively But MacGowan Was Spiralling Out Of Control. Following Their Next Album Hell's Ditch MacGowan And The Band Parted Company In 1991. With His Departure The Band Was Thrown Into A State Of Flux. Without Their Singer Vocal Duties Were For A Time Handled By Joe Strummer Before Stacy Finally Took Over Permanently. Two Politely Received Albums Followed The First Of Which Waiting For Herb Contained The Band's Third And Final Top Twenty Single "Tuesday Morning" Which Became Their Best Selling Single Internationally. In 1996 The Pogues Disbanded With Just Three Members Remaining. Post Breakup
Shane MacGowan Founded Shane MacGowan And The Popes In 1994. They Recorded Two Studio Albums In The Period Up To Their Split In 2002. MacGowan's Autobiography A Drink With Shane MacGowan Co-Written With His Journalist Girlfriend Victoria Mary Clarke Appeared In 2001. During This Time The Three Other Long-Term Members Of The Pogues Spider Stacy Andrew Ranken And Darryl Hunt Played Together Briefly As The Vendettas. Reunion
The Band Including MacGowan Re-Formed For A Christmas Tour In 2001 And Performed 9 Shows In The UK In December 2004 . In 2002 Q Magazine Named The Pogues As One Of The "50 Bands To See Before You Die". Also In December 2004 VH1 Conducted A Poll To Find The Best Christmas Song Ever With "Fairytale Of New York" Coming Number One With 2 650 Of The 10 000 Votes Cast - Over 25%. In Early 2005 VH1 Conducted Another Poll To Find The 100 Greatest Number Ones That Never Were With The Pogues Coming In At Number 27. In July 2005 The Band - Again Including MacGowan - Played At The Annual Guilfest Festival In Guildford Before Flying Out To Japan Where They Played Three Dates. Japan Is The Last Place They All Played Together Before MacGowan Was Originally Sacked In 1991 And They Have A Strong Following There. They Played A Date In Spain In Early September. The Reunited Pogues Played Dates In The UK With Support From The Dropkick Murphys In Late 2005 And Re-Released Their 1987 Christmas Classic "Fairytale Of New York" On 19th December Which Went Straight In At #3 In The UK Singles Charts On Christmas Day 2005 Showing The Song's Enduring Popularity. On December 22nd 2005 The BBC Broadcast A Live Performance Recorded The Previous Week On The Jonathan Ross Christmas Show With Katie Melua. "Fairytale Of New York" Was Voted The Greatest Christmas Record Of All Time For The Second Year Running In A Poll By UK Music Channel VH1 With "Fairytale Of New York" Taking In A Whopping 39% Of The Overall Vote. The Band Was Awarded The Life-Time Achievement Award At The Annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards In February 2006. In March 2011 The Pogues Played A Six-City/ten-Show Sell-Out US Tour Titled "A Parting Glass With The Pogues". In August 2012 The Pogues Undertook A 30th Anniversary European Tour. Discography
Albums
Red Roses For Me - 1984 #89 UK Rum Sodomy And The Lash - 1985 #13 UK Poguetry In Motion EP - 1986 #29
If I Should Fall From Grace With God - 1988 #3 UK #88 US Peace And Love - 1989 #5 UK Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah EP - 1990 #43 UK Hell's Ditch - 1990 #11 UK Waiting For Herb - 1993 #20 UK Pogue Mahone - 1996
The Best Of The Pogues - 1991 #11 UK The Rest Of The Best - 1992 The Very Best Of The Pogues - 2001 #18 The Ultimate Collection Including Live At The Brixton Academy - 2001 #15 UK Dirty Old Town The Platinum Collection
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Young Ned Of The Hill
The-Pogues - Peace And Love
"Éamonn An Chnoic" "Ned Of The Hill" Is A Popular Song In Traditional Irish Music. It Is A Slow Mournful Ballad With A Somber Theme And No Chorus. The Song Concerns Éamonn Ó Riain Edmund Ryan An Irish Aristocrat Who Lived In County Tipperary From 1670 – 1724 And Led A Bandit Or Rapparee Gang. Although There Is No Positive Proof Of Ryan's Existence He Is Mentioned In A Pamphlet Of 1694 In Which He And Four Other Raparee Leaders Called For The Overthrow Of William Of Orange In Favour Of The Catholic James II. 1 The Background To Ryan's Career Was The Confiscation Of Irish Catholic Land In The Act Of Settlement 1652 After The Cromwellian Conquest Of Ireland When Many Dispossessed Landowners Became Outlaws Known As "tories" Or "rapparees". Their Ranks Were Swelled After The Williamite War Of 1689-91 When Many Of The Defeated Catholic Jacobites Turned To Banditry. It Is Likely That Ryan Himself Served In The Jacobite Army. It Is Said That Ryan Became A Rapparee Or Outlaw After Shooting A Tax Collector Dead During A Quarrel Over The Confiscation Of A Poor Woman's Cow. Various Other Stories Are Told In Which Ó Riain Plays The Role Of The Rebel Hero Who Battles Authority In The Mode Of Robin Hood And Countless Others. The Song Is Usually Sung In Irish But Various English Versions Are Popular As Well. Here Is One Oh Dark Is The Evening And Silent The Hour Oh Who Is That Minstrel By Yon Shady Tower? Whose Harp Is So Tenderly Touching With Skill Oh Who Could It Be But Young Ned Of The Hill? And He Sings "Lady Love Will You Come With Me Now? Come And Live Merrily Under The Bough. I'll Pillow Your Head Where The Light Fairies Tread If You Will But Wed With Young Ned Of The Hill. Young Ned Of The Hill Has No Castle Or Hall No Bowmen Or Spearmen To Come At His Call. But One Little Archer Of Exquisite Skill Has Loosed A Bright Shaft For Young Ned Of The Hill. It Is Hard To Escape To This Young Lady's Bower For High Is The Castle And Guarded The Tower. But Where There's A Will There's Always A Way And Young Eileen Is Gone With Young Ned Of The Hill. 2 Other Versions Also Highlight The Failure Of Ó Riain's Countrymen To Come To Rally To His Defense And More Strongly Emphasize That Ó Riain Had Been A Man Of Wealth And Influence. For Example "Oh Who Is Without That With Passionate Shout Keeps Beating My Bolted Door?" "I Am Ned Of The Hill Forspent Wet And Chill From Long Trudging Marsh And Moor." "My Love Fond And True What Else Could I Do But Shield You From Wind And From Weather? When The Shots Fall Like Hail They Us Both Shall Assail And Mayhap We Shall Die Together." "Through Forest And Through Snow Tired And Hunted I Go In Fear Both From Friend And From Neighbor My Horses Run Wild My Acres Untilled And They All Of Them Lost To My Labor But It Grieves Me Far More Than The Loss Of My Store That There's None Who Would Shield Me From Danger So My Fate It Must Be To Fare Eastward O'er Sea And Languish Amid The Stranger" 2 "Éamonn An Chnoic" Has Been Recorded By Countless Artists In Both English And Irish. Some Versions Such As The "Young Ned Of The Hill" Recorded By The Pogues Adapt The Lyrics To A Fast-Tempo Song With Only A Passing Similarity To The Original Folk Song. Completely Instrumental Versions Are Also Common. "Éamonn An Chnoic" Is One Of Few Contemporary Irish Folk Songs To Which A Harp Can Easily Carry The Tune.
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The Pogues Is A Celtic Punk Band From London Formed In 1982 And Fronted By Shane MacGowan. The Band Reached International Prominence In The 1980s And Early 1990s. MacGowan Left The Band In 1991 Due To Drinking Problems But The Band Continued First With Joe Strummer And Then With Spider Stacy On Vocals Before Breaking Up In 1996. The Band Including MacGowan Reformed In 2001 And Has Been Playing Regularly Ever Since. While The Band Has Not Released An Album Since 1996 They Are Credited With Inventing Celtic Punk And Have Had A Large Influence On The Larger Celtic Fusion Scene. The Band Was Awarded The Life-Time Achievement Award At The Annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards In February 2006. The Pogues Were Founded In King's Cross A District In North London In 1982 As Pogue Mahone - "pogue Mahone" Being The Anglicisation Of The Irish Póg Mo Thóin Meaning "kiss My Arse". The Band Specialised In Irish Folk Music Often Playing With The Energy Of The Punk Rock Scene From Which Several Of The Members Had Their Roots. Their Politically-Tinged Music Was Reminiscent Of The Clash With Whom They Played Joe Strummer Produced One Of Their Albums And Even Joined The Group Briefly And Used Traditional Irish Instruments Such As The Tin Whistle Banjo Cittern Mandolin Accordion And More. In The Later Incarnations Of The Band After The Departure Of Shane MacGowan Electronic Instruments Such As The Electric Guitar Would Become More Prominent. The First Of The Pogues' Albums Red Roses For Me Borrows Much From The Punk Tradition Of MacGowan's Previous Band The Nipple Erectors Later Dubbed The Nips . Band History
Shane MacGowan Vocals James Fearnley Accordion And Spider Stacy Tin Whistle Were The Original Members Of The Pogues In The Days When They Busked On The Streets Of London. Before The Rest Of The Group Formed MacGowan And Stacy Were Rumoured To Have Played Impromptu Performances On Street Corners And City Buses Which Attracted Local Interest To Their Talent. They Later Added Jeremy 'Jem' Finer Guitar Banjo Cait O'Riordan Bass And Andrew Ranken Drums . The Band Rapidly Developed A Reputation Started Releasing Independent Work And Ended Up Opening For The Clash On Tour In 1984. Shortening Their Name To "The Pogues" Due To Lack Of Radio Play For The Curse In Their Name They Released Their First Album Red Roses For Me That October. Phil Chevron Guitar Joined The Group Soon After Then With The Aid Of Punk And New Wave Forefather Elvis Costello They Recorded The Follow Up Rum Sodomy & The Lash In 1985 The Album Title Is A Famous Comment Attributed Probably Falsely To Winston Churchill And Others In Describing The Traditions Of The British Royal Navy . The Album Cover Featured The Raft Of The Medusa Though The Faces On The Characters In Géricault's Painting Have Been Replaced With Those Of The Band Members. While The First Album Had Featured A Higher Percentage Of Traditional Songs Shane MacGowan Came Into His Own As A Songwriter With This Disc Offering Up Poetic Story-Telling Such As "The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn" And "The Old Main Drag " As Well As Definitive Interpretations Of Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town" And Eric Bogle's "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda " The Latter Of Which Has Become More Popular Than The Original Recording. The Band Failed To Take Advantage Of The Momentum Created By The Strong Artistic And Commercial Success Of Their Second Album. They First Refused To Record Another Album Offering Up The 4 Track EP Poguetry In Motion Instead O'Riordan Married Costello And Left The Band To Be Replaced By Bassist Darryl Hunt And They Added A Multi-Instrumentalist In Terry Woods Formerly Of Steeleye Span. Looming Over The Band At This Period As Throughout Their Entire Career Was The Increasingly Erratic Behaviour Of Their Vocalist Principal Songwriter And Creative Visionary Shane MacGowan. Success & Breakup
The Band Remained Stable Enough To Record If I Should Fall From Grace With God In 1988 With Its Christmas Hit Duet With Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale Of New York" And 1989's Peace And Love. The Band Was At The Peak Of Its Commercial Success With Both Albums Making The Top 5 In The UK Nos. 3 And 5 Respectively But MacGowan Was Spiralling Out Of Control. Following Their Next Album Hell's Ditch MacGowan And The Band Parted Company In 1991. With His Departure The Band Was Thrown Into A State Of Flux. Without Their Singer Vocal Duties Were For A Time Handled By Joe Strummer Before Stacy Finally Took Over Permanently. Two Politely Received Albums Followed The First Of Which Waiting For Herb Contained The Band's Third And Final Top Twenty Single "Tuesday Morning" Which Became Their Best Selling Single Internationally. In 1996 The Pogues Disbanded With Just Three Members Remaining. Post Breakup
Shane MacGowan Founded Shane MacGowan And The Popes In 1994. They Recorded Two Studio Albums In The Period Up To Their Split In 2002. MacGowan's Autobiography A Drink With Shane MacGowan Co-Written With His Journalist Girlfriend Victoria Mary Clarke Appeared In 2001. During This Time The Three Other Long-Term Members Of The Pogues Spider Stacy Andrew Ranken And Darryl Hunt Played Together Briefly As The Vendettas. Reunion
The Band Including MacGowan Re-Formed For A Christmas Tour In 2001 And Performed 9 Shows In The UK In December 2004 . In 2002 Q Magazine Named The Pogues As One Of The "50 Bands To See Before You Die". Also In December 2004 VH1 Conducted A Poll To Find The Best Christmas Song Ever With "Fairytale Of New York" Coming Number One With 2 650 Of The 10 000 Votes Cast - Over 25%. In Early 2005 VH1 Conducted Another Poll To Find The 100 Greatest Number Ones That Never Were With The Pogues Coming In At Number 27. In July 2005 The Band - Again Including MacGowan - Played At The Annual Guilfest Festival In Guildford Before Flying Out To Japan Where They Played Three Dates. Japan Is The Last Place They All Played Together Before MacGowan Was Originally Sacked In 1991 And They Have A Strong Following There. They Played A Date In Spain In Early September. The Reunited Pogues Played Dates In The UK With Support From The Dropkick Murphys In Late 2005 And Re-Released Their 1987 Christmas Classic "Fairytale Of New York" On 19th December Which Went Straight In At #3 In The UK Singles Charts On Christmas Day 2005 Showing The Song's Enduring Popularity. On December 22nd 2005 The BBC Broadcast A Live Performance Recorded The Previous Week On The Jonathan Ross Christmas Show With Katie Melua. "Fairytale Of New York" Was Voted The Greatest Christmas Record Of All Time For The Second Year Running In A Poll By UK Music Channel VH1 With "Fairytale Of New York" Taking In A Whopping 39% Of The Overall Vote. The Band Was Awarded The Life-Time Achievement Award At The Annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards In February 2006. In March 2011 The Pogues Played A Six-City/ten-Show Sell-Out US Tour Titled "A Parting Glass With The Pogues". In August 2012 The Pogues Undertook A 30th Anniversary European Tour. Discography
Albums
Red Roses For Me - 1984 #89 UK Rum Sodomy And The Lash - 1985 #13 UK Poguetry In Motion EP - 1986 #29
If I Should Fall From Grace With God - 1988 #3 UK #88 US Peace And Love - 1989 #5 UK Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah EP - 1990 #43 UK Hell's Ditch - 1990 #11 UK Waiting For Herb - 1993 #20 UK Pogue Mahone - 1996
The Best Of The Pogues - 1991 #11 UK The Rest Of The Best - 1992 The Very Best Of The Pogues - 2001 #18 The Ultimate Collection Including Live At The Brixton Academy - 2001 #15 UK Dirty Old Town The Platinum Collection read less
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Shane MacGowan Vocals James Fearnley Accordion And Spider Stacy Tin Whistle Were The Original Members Of The Pogues In The Days When They Busked On The Streets Of London. Before The Rest Of The Group Formed MacGowan And Stacy Were Rumoured To Have Played Impromptu Performances On Street Corners And City Buses Which Attracted Local Interest To Their Talent. They Later Added Jeremy 'Jem' Finer Guitar Banjo Cait O'Riordan Bass And Andrew Ranken Drums . The Band Rapidly Developed A Reputation Started Releasing Independent Work And Ended Up Opening For The Clash On Tour In 1984. Shortening Their Name To "The Pogues" Due To Lack Of Radio Play For The Curse In Their Name They Released Their First Album Red Roses For Me That October. Phil Chevron Guitar Joined The Group Soon After Then With The Aid Of Punk And New Wave Forefather Elvis Costello They Recorded The Follow Up Rum Sodomy & The Lash In 1985 The Album Title Is A Famous Comment Attributed Probably Falsely To Winston Churchill And Others In Describing The Traditions Of The British Royal Navy . The Album Cover Featured The Raft Of The Medusa Though The Faces On The Characters In Géricault's Painting Have Been Replaced With Those Of The Band Members. While The First Album Had Featured A Higher Percentage Of Traditional Songs Shane MacGowan Came Into His Own As A Songwriter With This Disc Offering Up Poetic Story-Telling Such As "The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn" And "The Old Main Drag " As Well As Definitive Interpretations Of Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town" And Eric Bogle's "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda " The Latter Of Which Has Become More Popular Than The Original Recording. The Band Failed To Take Advantage Of The Momentum Created By The Strong Artistic And Commercial Success Of Their Second Album. They First Refused To Record Another Album Offering Up The 4 Track EP Poguetry In Motion Instead O'Riordan Married Costello And Left The Band To Be Replaced By Bassist Darryl Hunt And They Added A Multi-Instrumentalist In Terry Woods Formerly Of Steeleye Span. Looming Over The Band At This Period As Throughout Their Entire Career Was The Increasingly Erratic Behaviour Of Their Vocalist Principal Songwriter And Creative Visionary Shane MacGowan. Success & Breakup
The Band Remained Stable Enough To Record If I Should Fall From Grace With God In 1988 With Its Christmas Hit Duet With Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale Of New York" And 1989's Peace And Love. The Band Was At The Peak Of Its Commercial Success With Both Albums Making The Top 5 In The UK Nos. 3 And 5 Respectively But MacGowan Was Spiralling Out Of Control. Following Their Next Album Hell's Ditch MacGowan And The Band Parted Company In 1991. With His Departure The Band Was Thrown Into A State Of Flux. Without Their Singer Vocal Duties Were For A Time Handled By Joe Strummer Before Stacy Finally Took Over Permanently. Two Politely Received Albums Followed The First Of Which Waiting For Herb Contained The Band's Third And Final Top Twenty Single "Tuesday Morning" Which Became Their Best Selling Single Internationally. In 1996 The Pogues Disbanded With Just Three Members Remaining. Post Breakup
Shane MacGowan Founded Shane MacGowan And The Popes In 1994. They Recorded Two Studio Albums In The Period Up To Their Split In 2002. MacGowan's Autobiography A Drink With Shane MacGowan Co-Written With His Journalist Girlfriend Victoria Mary Clarke Appeared In 2001. During This Time The Three Other Long-Term Members Of The Pogues Spider Stacy Andrew Ranken And Darryl Hunt Played Together Briefly As The Vendettas. Reunion
The Band Including MacGowan Re-Formed For A Christmas Tour In 2001 And Performed 9 Shows In The UK In December 2004 . In 2002 Q Magazine Named The Pogues As One Of The "50 Bands To See Before You Die". Also In December 2004 VH1 Conducted A Poll To Find The Best Christmas Song Ever With "Fairytale Of New York" Coming Number One With 2 650 Of The 10 000 Votes Cast - Over 25%. In Early 2005 VH1 Conducted Another Poll To Find The 100 Greatest Number Ones That Never Were With The Pogues Coming In At Number 27. In July 2005 The Band - Again Including MacGowan - Played At The Annual Guilfest Festival In Guildford Before Flying Out To Japan Where They Played Three Dates. Japan Is The Last Place They All Played Together Before MacGowan Was Originally Sacked In 1991 And They Have A Strong Following There. They Played A Date In Spain In Early September. The Reunited Pogues Played Dates In The UK With Support From The Dropkick Murphys In Late 2005 And Re-Released Their 1987 Christmas Classic "Fairytale Of New York" On 19th December Which Went Straight In At #3 In The UK Singles Charts On Christmas Day 2005 Showing The Song's Enduring Popularity. On December 22nd 2005 The BBC Broadcast A Live Performance Recorded The Previous Week On The Jonathan Ross Christmas Show With Katie Melua. "Fairytale Of New York" Was Voted The Greatest Christmas Record Of All Time For The Second Year Running In A Poll By UK Music Channel VH1 With "Fairytale Of New York" Taking In A Whopping 39% Of The Overall Vote. The Band Was Awarded The Life-Time Achievement Award At The Annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards In February 2006. In March 2011 The Pogues Played A Six-City/ten-Show Sell-Out US Tour Titled "A Parting Glass With The Pogues". In August 2012 The Pogues Undertook A 30th Anniversary European Tour. Discography
Albums
Red Roses For Me - 1984 #89 UK Rum Sodomy And The Lash - 1985 #13 UK Poguetry In Motion EP - 1986 #29
If I Should Fall From Grace With God - 1988 #3 UK #88 US Peace And Love - 1989 #5 UK Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah EP - 1990 #43 UK Hell's Ditch - 1990 #11 UK Waiting For Herb - 1993 #20 UK Pogue Mahone - 1996
The Best Of The Pogues - 1991 #11 UK The Rest Of The Best - 1992 The Very Best Of The Pogues - 2001 #18 The Ultimate Collection Including Live At The Brixton Academy - 2001 #15 UK Dirty Old Town The Platinum Collection read less
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"Éamonn an Chnoic" ("Ned of the Hill") is a popular song in traditional Irish music. It is a slow, mournful ballad with a somber theme and no chorus.
The song concerns Éamonn Ó Riain (Edmund Ryan), an Irish aristocrat who lived in County Tipperary from 1670 – 1724 and led a bandit or rapparee gang. Although there is no positive proof of Ryan's existence, he is mentioned in a pamphlet of 1694, in which he and four other raparee leaders called for the overthrow of William of Orange in favour of the Catholic James II.[1]
The background to Ryan's career was the confiscation of Irish Catholic land in the Act of Settlement 1652 after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland when many dispossessed landowners became outlaws, known as "tories" or "rapparees". Their ranks were swelled after the Williamite War of 1689-91, when many of the defeated Catholic Jacobites turned to banditry. It is likely that Ryan himself served in the Jacobite army.
It is said that Ryan became a rapparee or outlaw after shooting a tax collector dead during a quarrel over the confiscation of a poor woman's cow. Various other stories are told in which Ó Riain plays the role of the rebel hero who battles authority in the mode of Robin Hood and countless others.
The song is usually sung in Irish, but various English versions are popular as well. Here is one:
Oh dark is the evening and silent the hour
Oh who is that minstrel by yon shady tower?
Whose harp is so tenderly touching with skill
Oh who could it be but young Ned of the Hill?
And he sings, "Lady love, will you come with me now?
Come and live merrily under the bough.
I'll pillow your head where the light fairies tread
If you will but wed with young Ned of the Hill.
Young Ned of the Hill has no castle or hall,
No bowmen or spearmen to come at his call.
But one little archer of exquisite skill
Has loosed a bright shaft for young Ned of the Hill.
It is hard to escape to this young lady's bower
For high is the castle and guarded the tower.
But where there's a will there's always a way
And young Eileen is gone with young Ned of the Hill.[2]
Other versions also highlight the failure of Ó Riain's countrymen to come to rally to his defense and more strongly emphasize that Ó Riain had been a man of wealth and influence. For example:
"Oh who is without
That with passionate shout
Keeps beating my bolted door?"
"I am Ned of the Hill
Forspent wet and chill
From long trudging marsh and moor."
"My love, fond and true
What else could I do
But shield you from wind and from weather?
When the shots fall like hail
They us both shall assail
And mayhap we shall die together."
"Through forest and through snow
Tired and hunted I go
In fear both from friend and from neighbor
My horses run wild
My acres untilled
And they all of them lost to my labor
But it grieves me far more
Than the loss of my store
That there's none who would shield me from danger
So my fate it must be
To fare eastward o'er sea
And languish amid the stranger"[2]
"Éamonn an Chnoic" has been recorded by countless artists in both English and Irish. Some versions, such as the "Young Ned of the Hill" recorded by The Pogues, adapt the lyrics to a fast-tempo song with only a passing similarity to the original folk song. Completely instrumental versions are also common. "Éamonn an Chnoic" is one of few contemporary Irish folk songs to which a harp can easily carry the tune. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.