Carrickfergus (Jim McCann with the Dubliners).

[@billmuncey6147]

It's a grand song and if they don't sing it at my funeral, I'm not going.

[@MonaLisa-lu8zi]

🤣 👍

[@ralphporsch2438]

Man, that's the most excellent plan one can possibly make. 🍀☺👍

[@lindalucas6318]

😜😝😉

[@1gerard47]

Well said ❤

[@jeanneobrien7381]

LOL

[@JohnWick-pm5yq]

Just pure beautiful, my late mother peggy loved the dubliners, god bless them all, great people

[@richardcardozo8664]

one of the most beautiful irish songs EVER !!!!

[@Deejaay83urj38]

Indeed

[@Silverblade61]

Irish doesn't need Orchestra ! Only the traditional instruments and a great voice. And the wonderful songs... I Miss this land so much . Thank you for the music !

[@d_tyros5282]

WELOOK AFTER OUR OWN ITS NOT AN ORCHESTRA WE NEED ITS SUPPORT FROM US IRISH TO NOT TO FORGET ABOUT THE IRISH THAT EMIGRATED ABROAD SOME MADE IT SOME DIDNT WERE NOT PLAYING A VIOLAIN WERE SPEAKEKING ABOUT US IRISH THAT DID AND DIDNT MAKE IT YOU MAY MISS THE LAND DO YOU MISS YOUR IRISH PEOPLE THAT EMIGRATEDXXXX

[@katieheile6178]

First day of spring today. Love you dad.

[@stevencully7184]

was trying to get my dad over to n.ireland to spend the last part of his life there but he died last night in my arms , this was one of the songs he loved ! im in tears sometimes plans dont work out ,not enough time !

[@sammcewan8295]

Steven Cully the thought was there friend

[@Account-qb4lh]

Rip to him amen

[@4pitos4556]

I'm sorry man

[@jackharvey2127]

My commiserations friend, on losing YOR dad at such time.

[@johnoreilly4940]

God love you

[@Dubliners39]

Really missing the old days ☘️🥃

[@Paddymayne4738]

There is no doubt that Jim MCCan sings Carrickfergus with great feeling and conviction. One can't help but cling to every word .

[@jamescantrell1916]

I am an American of Irish descent and I always feel a connection to this music

[@paulwhite3489]

You would it's where you came from your folks probably lived in Ireland for thousands of years. America maybe a couple of hundred years?

[@jacobtaylor4258]

i worked with a lot of irishmen in my younger days in manchester, and this song reminds me of the sorrow i seen in there eyes, when a ballad like this was played, there eyes said it all, WHY IN GODS NAME DID I LEAVE MY BELOVED COUNTRY AND MY FAMILY, it did then and still does bring a lump to my throat, i thank the lord for knowing and drinking with such men, i had my chances to go back to my ancestral routes, i wish i could turn back the clock.

[@Joe-gj1ut]

Fuck me beautiful

[@Joe-gj1ut]

Why can't you

[@d_tyros5282]

ITS NEVER TO LATE TO GO HOME MY FRIEND I WAS IN THE SAME POSITION THERES LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNELL BELIEVE ME HOMEIS HOME AND GREAT SUPPORT THERE IN IRELAND XXXX

[@denisemayger7479]

This song carries me over the deepest ocean, to my family my mother father relatives most have passed fills me with a joy and sorrow at the same time im 74 now and feel part of this song

[@henkdegroot1544]

I am a Dutchman but I love that song so dearly. Henk

[@cararevelscrittenton806]

WOW 2024 what a beautiful song first time hearing it. It was on the TV Show Waking the Dead.

[@catherineoloughlin7451]

I heard this first in a little co clare town, at a funeral...everything was quiet and a man at the rear of the church began to sing this...omg, what amazing emotion....the 'lady of the day' happened to love this song, but when it started it was beyond any feeling i have ever known.....go ennistymon

[@d_tyros5282]

A CLASSIC SONG OMG

[@angelicaluce3230]

Every time I hear this beautiful song I am reduced to a SOBBING SHELL - memories of my golden childhood in Callow, COUNTY MAYO in the West of Ireland, the country that I LOVE the MOST in this world. I'm thousands of miles away from that glorious place - why I cry..

[@brianocallaghan7172]

blessings and greetings from galway city

[@johnloftus21]

I pass through Callow every day, it's still a beautiful place almost untouched by change.....I feel your sense of loss Angelica but lucky the person who has a childhood so precious. My childhood days were spent in Kildangan, Co Kildare...glorious times, different world.

[@glennsprigg2378]

No one past present or future, will play/sing this as well as Jim !!!! xoxoxox May Jim now rest in Peace!!!

[@ivanbuick3028]

I live in Carrickfergus. I love this, what absolutely beautiful music.

[@rene-pierreblanc1657]

Quelle belle voix ! Quelle belle chanson ! Repose en paix, l'ami Jim !

[@jackblack804]

`Perhaps the most moving songs I have ever heard in my life

[@franksammon7853]

As an Irish Australian of many years. Always lovely to hear Jim sing this beautiful song. R.I.P. Mate.

[@Deejaay83urj38]

Yep

[@AnnesleyPlaceDub70]

Absolutely fantastic. Another great balladeer now plies his trade in heaven. R.I.P Jim, Up The Dubs!

[@patrickspoint]

OhMyGod, you've just ruined my day, I didn't know he had died, another one gone. I'm away now to cry my eyes out. RIP Jim

[@chrismcgreevy2234]

made your life though

[@sheilagaughan2206]

Chris Mc Greevy ge

[@seanmcgloin8378]

up leitrim

[@josephandrewatkinson6618]

Hill16Dub. We The

[@desicoran8285]

I love this as I was born in Kilkenny where the famous black marble was mined by many of my family and ancestors

[@birdiejimenez719]

I never tire of listening to this song . A masterpiece !

[@jamiecorrigan3241]

I worked with The Dubliners a few times in the 1970s, well, 'They' were on Stage, while myself was fetching The Carlsberg Specials !!! Wonderful Muscians And Great People !!!

[@luismartinperez5800]

The most amazing performance of this melancholic masterpiece. Greetings from Madrid to all the Irish People and fabulous St Patrick's Day...🥇👏👏👏👏

[@Marlondurran]

Great stuff 👍

[@genadelapena5861]

HAPPY ST.PATRICK'S DAY!I!❤

[@genadelapena5861]

LUV IT!!! ❤

[@kingshamie1332]

Well done Jim good night and God bless 👍

[@paulpaulc4523]

The first time I heard this song was in a Scottish T.V. drama called Dr. Finlay and i love it.

[@philpatton8521]

beautiful song ,my uncle joe sang this regular .

[@KevinMurphy0403]

What an incredibly moving song. RIP Jim.

[@dianescotter8089]

Still one of me favs. You were all so lucky to have these men and musicions in your era ❤️x

[@denisemayger7479]

this is the sweetest Irish ballad i have heard beautiful

[@BAHZ]

The most beautifull Irish song ever. Nobody could sing this better than JmC

[@peterjohn8447]

Bahz Listen to VAN the MAN.s version and I think you.ll change your mind.

[@peterjohn8447]

Bahz he. does it with the cheiftains

[@michaelfurtwangen1662]

mhh dont know. One among many I would say. Irish music has so many great gems that I coundn't choose one over all the others 😅 But if it counts as an Irish song it might be "Spancil hill" for me. It speaks to my german melancholy. This bitter sweet longing for the good old times that might never were. I have to think about the villige I grew up in. Small town near Mannheim. I knew all the streets, places, other kids and their parents. Then we moved away and I never felt this kibd of belonging to a place anymore. I visited the villiage years later and it changed so much, I couldn't really recognize it anymore and most of the people I knew were replaced by strangers. There is no return to the safety of your childhood. This song and some others like "dirty old town" are therefore among my favourites

[@phcoh]

There is another version of this that Jim did way back and with youth behind him its 100% better.

[@Texans9517]

Listen to Allison Moorer's version. She is my wife's cousin and has an incredible voice! She is a Country singer from Alabama and is very popular in the UK.

[@fredferd965]

I sometimes think the Irish, of all the peoples of the world, are the ones who live in the past, the everlasting now, and in worlds elsewhere, and yet to come - somehow, they travel among them with ease. The price is a song, a tear, a hope, a love, and part of your heart. Beautiful.

[@kieransavage3835]

A really lovely comment Thank You .Irish Exile.

[@fredferd965]

@@kieransavage3835 You are a thousand times welcome, and may the sun shine always in your path.....

[@conormccrory4595]

As a proud irishman i couldn't have put it better myself

[@fredferd965]

@@conormccrory4595 thank you, my friend - it comes from the heart.

[@davidbosquette2940]

Those words are poetry 🇮🇪💚🙏

[@RUBYLUD]

It puts me in thought of my own dear parents and grandparents, Scots/Irish, no longer with us. May the good Lord bless them and keep them. God bless dear old Ireland

[@ianbhoy7]

Same as me Martin. Miss them so much. Jim is one of the few singers who seem to feel the emotions that brings me to tears. HH

[@terrietackett8964]

God bless my precious and brave family, who came over to America from County Down, Ireland in the 1800's. God's speed to them...Thank you!!

[@morleybolero]

Nailed it.

[@johngoldsmith4064]

Wonderful. I went there on my holidays. This song stuck in my head xxxxx

[@eikegehrts9961]

RIP, old friend. I first saw Jim McCann on stage with the Dubliners during a concert in Hamburg in the late 1970'ies, but I really I got to know him during his solo career in 1983-1985, when I lived and worked in Clonmel/Co. Tipperary. We met at many occasions, firstly at Hearns Hotel, Clonmel, and afterwards at The Hidden Inn, Ballynacarbry, Co. Waterford. For Jim, I was his "friend from Hamburg" , and during his concerts, he mostly dedicated the song "Spancil Hill" to me. I was triuly shocked to learn that Jim had passed away in 2015. Again "RIP, old friend".

[@Dnubass]

tis songs like this here weigh heavy on the heart of all us Irish who are gone from the country for the unforeseeable future. Sure there is no place like it in the worl. d

[@Texans9517]

I have traced my family back to Cookstown, Tyrone County, Northern Ireland. My Great Grandfather X6 Hugh Quinn left for America in 1750. Cookstown is not far from Carrickfergus. Listening to this sad, beautiful song makes me want to visit Ireland so badly!

[@Silverblade61]

Brings me back to Ireland I.visited a long Time ago and loved it from the first second I arrived... 🤩

[@ThrustusSimmonds]

What a performance! And one of the few instances that include the entirety of the lyrics. The hard McCann!.

[@fgilroy50]

I was 17 the first time I heard this song. It was in the famed Old Sheiling Hotel in Raheny, Dublin, on a Saturday evening in the summer of 1972. And who was the singer? A solo artist named Jim McCann. After his show when the barroom had emptied I presumed to go and talk to him at the bar. What a gentleman. If I am not mistken he told me he was soon to be married and we drank to his good fortune.

[@ckelly094]

From carrickfergus but Listening to this over the water at uni (England) has me near in tears 😓

[@japh1999]

Another great singer gone RIP Jim McCann a great voice and thank you

[@grahamdonachie6298]

The Dubliners..and the lads who keep their legend on to all who love them....I love them all....

[@Blossom1948]

Jim is certainly THE MAN!.....what a sterling job he made of this wonderful song!

[@genadelapena5861]

BEAUTIFUL! Can't help but CRY, Reminiscing...💞🙇‍♀️

[@irishtim55]

i listen to this when i have had a few beers it just sends me somewhere else and i love it

[@davidmorrison4027]

My mums fav. Always brings a tear to my eye. RIP mum xx

[@GILLEBRATH]

Beautiful rendition R.I.P. Jim ,Thank you .

[@johanbisschop6271]

Rest in Peace... and thank you for all those lovely ballads...

[@sheenareid]

This is the best version of Carrickfergus - ever xx

[@ianbhoy7]

Aye hen. Its my fav too. xx

[@JohnWilson-bn1xs]

I dunno. It's fine...but have you heard VAN MORRISON'S VERSION ?

[@Hauntedlavvy-GeorgeFawcett]

@@JohnWilson-bn1xs Best version ever by Scottish band The White Heather Tubes.

[@davidbosquette2940]

Agree 100%

[@kelleefiola5854]

1st time heard on the movie Belfast-just beautiful-had to work hard to find it...pretty sure this is the version in the movie...never heard the Dubliners before-just gorgeous

[@catarinacosta805]

This song is great! I love it. I Know it by heart!

[@karlaisbitt4819]

IN THE 80,S AND 90,S I SAW JIM MULTIPLE TIMES LIVE IN DUBLIN AND WHEN JIM SANG THIS THE PUB WOULD GO TOTALLY SILENT YOU COULD HEAR A PIN DROP ! R.I.P JIM YOU ARE SORELY MISSED BY MANY..

[@tonycarton8054]

many many years ago when i lived in new zealand i met an older man in a pub ,he recognised my accent ,he was longing to come back home ,maybe because of him i am now back home in ni .,with all its faults maybe we get somethings right like this song RIP jim

[@grimsmith1]

Bloody shame htis guy is not with us anymore - RIP and bless

[@WingManPilot]

...such an amazing piece of music

[@puredeadgallus]

R.I.P. Jim Thank you for so many great songs of Ireland you were the MAN

[@sianbarbaraallen1330]

A beautiful song with a beautiful man singing it. Rest in Peace, Jim McCann.

[@patrickryan2451]

This song is for you Dad ! You died a few weeks ago in these heartbreaking times ! We couldn't give you the send off you deserved , you will always be our handsome boatman that we love and miss

[@karyngrubb4410]

Sorry to hear about your loss. Losing our parents is something we dread our entire lives.

[@patrickryan2451]

@@karyngrubb4410 Thanks Karyn

[@joemcinally4334]

Thoughts and commiserations to you and yours on the passing of your Dad. As you say it is heartbreaking in these times that friends and relations are unable to give their love ones a proper send off. I can only say that you picked a very fine song to remember your Dad and hopefully he is enjoying it .

[@maureenwalsh988]

I'm desperately sorry. Stand, as the Irish always have. Hold on Patrick.

[@cathymcateer1016]

I'm from Carrickfergus...my dad's favourite song who Also has passed ❤️

[@FFM0594]

He's the voice for this song. Almost perfect!

[@phillipjarvis5867]

i just love this song

[@honestguy77]

Jim McCann was a musical genius. What true air the like of which is very rare. RIP Jim

[@imedi]

sometimes you forget these people are gone and with us no more

[@Silverblade61]

Love it so much ! Ireland is calling me....

[@franzbernasek4058]

fantastic great Jim McCann

[@TheWalkingsouls]

Great voice, great lyrics. Big thumbs up from Pakistan.

[@timothygraham4304]

I still can't actually believe I've seen this man perform live for free in my local! Tickets to this man's shows, should cost what touts charge!

[@houndzark]

I first heard this on a CD sung by a wonderful female singer while I was driving to an orchestra rehearsal. When I parked, I stayed in the car till the last minute listening again and just tearing up. Was dang well almost late. I could barely focus on whatever we were doing for this melody just demanded my attention. I love it still! Thank you.

[@sheilamcfeely8462]

A great voice! I enjoy listening to him sing........especially "Grace."

[@peterblake7980]

God bless you Sis never forget you xxx

[@ThefightingCelt]

RIP Jim , you did The Dubliners proud .

[@sebdetyra651]

I'm livin in England; when i've had a few i open up with 'cause i'm drunk today and i'm seldom sober' And god bless them, they went to the extent of checkin the song out and they all love it now.

[@stevejones9740]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

[@BalingMusicFactory]

Strange to hear it in 6/8, I'm used to hear it in 4/4, but still it's at great song and a great preformance.

[@johnmcdyer7297]

Wow brilliant

[@koichiakiyama2922]

I heard them first time now, and it is wonderful to become one of his/their funs.

[@megaklesrogakos3807]

I too wish I was in Carrickfergus!

[@dominiquesoulierdsbreizh]

Amazing song, amazing voice ! Thank you

[@johnking1167]

There should be a statue of the DUBLINERS. Its a shame there is not any yet.

[@BarryHawk]

Besides the obvious wonder of Jim's singing , imlove the build on this song and Barney's banjo is beautiful

[@ReyPalustre]

One of the best versions I've heard!

[@TheAnarchistGaming]

Fergus Gibson, I just love the meaning of this song, or just sit, listen, and simply cry. Something inside me tells me to just cry because the song has so many life events that are sometimes just hard for me to express.

[@BennySF74]

Beautifully said.

[@dannyinaus]

Wow, you really have some deep seated emotional issues. No doubt you were raised by women after your useless father abandoned you. You need to suck up it buddy, and get on with life. If you love something, set it free, and if it doesn't come back to you, hunt it down and fucking kill it.

[@OldSkoolWax]

I love the history of this song. Formed in the 19th century from a few different song. When Cork boys and Belfast boys used to mingle in pubs during the linen boom (those two cities became trade linked).

[@karlaisbitt4819]

jim we loved you rest in peace my old buddy..

[@keithleighton9738]

Beautiful rendition of a beautiful song Keith 2018

[@johnoreilly4940]

I am there with you Jim.grand man

[@tom7471]

Absolutely beautiful! What an amazing version of this astonishingly touching song! RIP, Mr. McCann...

[@leif967]

The voice and the song is perfect together!

[@ianbhoy7]

One of my fav songs fae one of Ireland's greatest singers. Beautiful. RIP Jim.

[@patrickfagan9784]

Brilliant Balladeer. So sorry to hear you have died Jim. Rip.

[@itsrubymoyers1016]

It’s so sad we have lost a lot of great bands I loved the tulla Celia band from Clare where I come from but Jim made me weep xxx

[@anndurcan9540]

Beautiful song sung by the great Jim McCann.

[@elainethomson1712]

Carrickfergus sung by the best Jim McCann

[@fidelchaves]

Isso é um espetáculo!!!Como quase todos com The Dubliners.

[@T1C4]

Boardwalk Empire brought me here, and yes it´s a beautiful song, Ireland, Croatia loves you :)

[@simonetondo4094]

A dream 💚

[@anncosten7022]

Beautiful, heartbreakingly poignant. Makes you wonder what it is all about. Shows that we waste so much time on nonsense, that makes no difference in the end. Please, god, why not give peace a chance. "My days are numbered" as are us all. Remember that today is the oldest you have ever been and the youngest you will ever be again.

[@lorrainebyrne5821]

will always listen to ths song and rem my cousin...the gud times n the craic,ur remembered lots jimmy but always on xmas nite...sleep well cuz xx

[@lorrainebyrne5821]

Me too

[@Hughie1922]

I came across this by accident; a very fortuitous one. Totally brilliant rendition.

[@Glasgow1966]

Memories of my late brother such great song 🌟