Kilkelly Ireland - Going Home

[@mediterraneo10000]

I came from Spain.In High School, my teacher of English Language made us listen to this song several times.I learnt from heart its sad lyrics, and I cried many times while listening to it. Now, 17 years after that, I found the song in KZbin.I have again cried deeply listening to it.I think it is the saddest song I ever listened to. It is heartrending. But it is beautiful, because it is life itself. All feelings of life are together in this song. And your voice and accent are just perfect....

[@Ambidexter143]

As one who emigrated to the U.S. over 40 years ago, this song brings a tear to my eye and a lump to my throat.

[@rtcrtc928]

My mother was from Kilkelly and I used to spend my summer holidays between there and enniscrone in Sligo in the mid 70's early 80's.It was a wonderful time with many happy memories.My uncles and aunts used to come from England with their kids and it still brings a smile to my face the night the eldest of the kids went out with the "men" for a few pints in Lydons.He came home after swallowing five pints looking very pale.After twenty minutes of telling us how great it was he threw up eveywhere.I was down that way fishing last year and it was nice to see Tarpeys shop is still there even though most of the old pubs/shops are gone.Sod it.I think I might head down there fishing tomorrow.....

[@xinboli1062]

I thought I could finish this song without tear in eyes after listening it the whole Saturday afternoon thousands miles away from my hometown. Turned out that I couldn't.

[@gerzy100]

This song has a universal appeal....speaks of one's heartfelt anguish, joys, nostalgia, pain of loneliness, family bonding, love, death , separation and heartbreak - marriages, deaths, child births....

[@erikandersson9084]

Love this song, When I listened on it the first time on a train I started to cry by myself in-front of other people n they wondered in their silence why. Beautiful song.

[@MelissaDuffySacredBreath]

This video touched my heart! Thank you. This is a very emotional video for me right now as my dad, now 90, lives in CA and live far away in WA. While I call him daily being in person is something I hope to be able to do again as this is better. I hope to be with him before he passes. In the meantime, daily I sing some Irish songs for him...His parents are from Mayo and Kerry. Itis hard living apart. Our elders are so precious.

[@crc778Hypnodoc]

As an Irish emigrant from Kilkenny Ireland this amazing song could equally be about mine and millions of other Irish refugees of the terrible hardship in Ireland over the centuries. Most emigrants were forced to leave never to set foot back home again. This song is as important to Irish history as it is Beautiful

[@IrishFenian1916]

My family came from Ireland to Nova Scotia Canada during the famine. I so want to go back to my motherland...our green shore

[@michaelcraig9449]

So do I!! I would love to marry an old style rural girl from the west coast..Someone that still believes in family and the good things..

[@madmaxusa1]

This is my favorite cover of Peter Jones song. It speaks to children who have left their native land for a better life, never to return, and their parents. I know, I'm one.

[@Cln3004]

This song allways brings tears to my eyes. Nice version as well. Looking forward to spend x-mas with my family in Kiltamagh.

[@timothymccoy647]

I dont know what it is about this song, but i cant stop listening to it,i listen to it every night at work.

[@jeanninebridges7124]

Timothy McCoy Tisch a bo' the family !

[@ahsanmujahid15]

"Kilkelly, Ireland" is a contemporary ballad composed by American songwriter Peter Jones. It tells the story of an Irish family whose son emigrated to America, via a series of letters sent from the father back in Kilkelly. It has five stanzas, covering the time period from 1860 to 1892.

[@dannykane3068]

I enjoyed this version of the song and the filming around Kilkelly . it brought back memories of my visit there in 1994 inspired by the song. I had a few Guinness in the pub and then a wonder around the graveyard

[@brentuna]

suso, Thank you for the comments. I also followed a girl from Kilkelly. We have been married 43 years now. Spain must have many little villages and be a wonderful place to visit.

[@toxikfoxy1814]

No matter how I hear this song it always hurts to try and sing along with it

[@MsCactusWren]

Thank you to Brentuna for posting this. Thanks also to Jim Brannigan for your performance, and for commenting and confirming what I half-remembered about the song's origins: I learned it many years ago from an issue of "Sing Out!". I cried when I learned it then, and I cried just now listening to it.

[@altmarkmaik]

Hello to Nordwestirland from North Germany! A very nice song. I love this music and me entrancedly Ireland. If I travel sometimes to Ireland, I will also come to Kilkelly. Lots of love from Salzwedel, a small town between Hamburg and Berlin Mike

[@declandeburca1567]

How beautiful.You really have to have immigrated to fully appreciate the sad lyrics...

[@11cutecuddly11]

this song is amazing because kilkelly is so small, that a song would acctuly be on youtube, most of my family still live in kilkelly :)

[@SPS145]

Its heart breaking to listen to a song like this and hear of the suffering that the Irish people have endured in the past.

[@JimLaddie]

Hi: I had no idea that this tune was on here. The song is fairly recent and was written by two brothers in America (Peter & Steven Jones). They were rummaging through their aunt's attic when they came across a series of letters from Ireland. It is the saddest and one of the most beautiful songs, I know & is available through CD Baby on my "Troubadour" album. I cried several times just learning the words. Thank you for taking the time to listen, Sincerely Jim Brannigan.

[@timothymccoy647]

Im from the US and i would LOVE to visit Irland someday befor i die. I still have family in the UK.

[@brentuna]

Your welcome. I made this video from a visit to my wifes home town of Kilkelly where her father is buried. He was IRA and was given a 21 gun salute on his burial.

[@1892magpie]

Very moving video. Thanks for sharing it. The song Kilkelly is a classic, and this version is excellent.

[@49tonio]

Kilkelly (Irish: Cill Cheallaigh) is a small and friendly village approx 5.5 miles south of Ireland West Airport Knock, in County Mayo, Ireland. Located in the parish of Kilmovee, the village is along the N17, the national primary road between Galway and Sligo. 'Cill Cheallaigh' gets its name from the name Ceallach (Celsus), supposedly that of a son of a King of Connaught born circa 520 AD. Educated at Clonmacnoise, he was ordained a priest and later became Bishop of Killala. There was growing opposition to his appointment and after a turbulent period, he left the post and became a hermit on an island in Lough Conn. He was later murdered and his brother was refused permission to bury him at either Turlough or Swinford. The people of the Kilkelly area gave permission for his burial to take place and thus the town was named after him.

[@michaelheaneyvideos]

The best version I have ever heard. It brought tears to me. A beautiful sad song.

[@philipwilliamson]

I saw a poster once: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. "What does kill you makes you dead, so you have to be careful."

[@VincentEglington]

What a beautiful song

[@Bealzbob]

Thank you for the effort put into that video. It gives the song added poignancy.

[@thomasmccauley414]

My people are from the town-lands between CoilteMagh and Kilkelly. The Native-Americans sent money to the starving people of Mayo during the famine. Oppressed people. were helping oppressed people.

[@rfmb35]

it was about 20 years after the famine in Ireland when the first letters start crossing the wild Atlantic, love this song to bits, im in Co Donegal by the way and thanks to Jim Brann for the information

[@jabberwocky1969]

I've heard two versions and this is the best so far.

[@brentuna]

Yes, his name is Jim Brannigan. He has the best version I have heard of this song.

[@reddirt3050]

Great Song, well put together.

[@stephenhillmusic]

Amazing song. Amazing singer.

[@mdenniz]

So nice song,,,is my dream visit Ireland

[@rasherst]

Beautiful! Thank you.

[@rpgplayer101]

I Love this song. Nice video to go with it too!

[@paganstormcloud]

Respond to this video... Love this song and video so many familiar faces i see the late jimmy duffy.

[@hpygrammy]

Hi Brent & Una, I love the gate o hearts in Kilkelly -i pinned it to my IN HONOR OF board, in honor of your family ^^ xxoo

[@brentuna]

Melissa Duffy. The part of the video with the Irish setter was taken at the Duffy house in Kilkelly. The Duffy's from Kilkelly are my wife's relatives

[@feidhelmofoghladha5525]

+Brent Crawford interesting, thanks for sharing

[@brentuna]

Thanks Melissa. We were at Eileen Duffy Harrison hourse when we took this. We were on vacation and Eileen is Cousin of my wife. We live in California too. Sorry for the late reply

[@purrshaped]

He does a fantastic carrickfergus as well, he's a very powerful singer

[@soldier2297]

Great video🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@llamaroo]

he`ll never b forgoten in kilkelley

[@paganstormcloud]

I see the late patsy on the video,very sad to see familiar places and faces

[@ottokar1872]

when Irish families was hungry in1841's there was lot of food in England

[@MysticalNonsense]

Otto Kar There was plenty food in Ireland but it was exported so the wealthy could get wealthier.

[@Ratter08]

Oh God this song is great

[@Irishfianna]

thanks for that

[@brentuna]

Jim Brannigan who sang the song for this video is from Canada

[@Irishfianna]

thanks

[@jenni4claire]

This is beautiful, ta.

[@cannuccia7]

so touching....

[@49tonio]

My name is...Kilkelly....

[@infinitypharao]

so moving...

[@paganstormcloud]

@cmurphy2826 Love this song it is so haunting and poignant,i am a native of kilkelly.

[@johnnyk555]

OMG that me in 1:31 when i was 5 and that my dog spot (the white one) and my other dog mac i still remember when this al happined i nw 12 yrs old and and im shocked to see that over 32,000 people have seen this :o

[@Ratter08]

In welchen fach hat man eine schulaufgabe über das lied? Englisch?

[@yedon68]

yes, i relate to this...!

[@maryredmond]

One of the best .... Mary

[@polter211]

Saddest song ever. Love it, though.

[@maryredmond]

I love this version - could you tell me who recorded it and when? Mary

[@shaneminogue982]

is a great song - some maulin ol shite sure enuff but a great song. I didn't know about the letters in the attic story. Thanks for this.

[@Screeny3]

Oh, funny :) I had to understand it in my english lessons. It's about immigration to the USA. Great music, i think but very sad :'(

[@eoghancallaghy3756]

my school looked exactly like that one. Did they use the same design all across the country?

[@brentuna]

Could be, this was Kilkelly national school

[@49tonio]

My surname is Kilkelly, I am just reading Joseph O'connor's 'star of the sea' all about the great famine or, more precisely, the British persecution and mass starvation of the Irish people. I should have researched this much earlier...it's outrageous what they did..but then again rather typical

[@michaelcraig9449]

Sad to hear, but good to see it is still traditional instead of some temporary suburban mess, like the idiots are trying to build on the cheap, all over the world

[@odlgruam]

Mayo... A Beatiful Place in ireland by Connemara

[@chavrons1]

No Keating., We had a great great grandfather who was one of the early settlers of Australia, who came out because of the potato famine. So it wasn't just America they migrated to during that time.

[@paganstormcloud]

I see the late patsy on the video,

[@Irishfianna]

WHAT COUNTY IS KILLKELLY IN???

[@a40a40]

What's the music at the end of this video?

[@brentuna]

"I am Ireland", by Jeff Victor. Its listed in the comments

[@a40a40]

Thanks. That was quick! I hadn't seen it. Great song.

[@black_platypus]

To this day my favorite version of the song. Most other versions are just rattled down as if pressed for time, it's disgusting :/ First heard the song at a boy scout camp, haunting from the very beginning

[@cmurphy2826]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this singer Scottish? Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm sure plenty of Scots had very similar stories.

[@catherineannemccloskey-ros9500]

Who is singing.

[@brentuna]

Catherine Anne McCloskey-Ross Jim Brannigan

[@gerardgrant4942]

@@brentuna Jim Brannigan is my nephew, He has recorded many songs but this one is my favourite even though I get a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye each time I listen to it. As a youhgster before he emigrated first to Australia then to Canada we had many many sing songs at home with all the extended family.

[@brentuna]

@@gerardgrant4942 thanks for the update. Sung so well by Jim. Your gatherings must have been great.

[@gerardgrant4942]

@@brentuna Indeed they were Brent

[@johnnyk555]

@Irishfianna mayo i that boy at 1 31

[@brentuna]

Mayo

[@llamaroo]

mayo

[@chavrons1]

I could be about immigration to Australia to during the Potato Famine.

[@JKeating1711]

Australia?, i hope you mean America

[@cashfanman]

He is Scottish

[@Ratter08]

I allways hate english as a subject. For a bavarian is it the hell to speak englisch because we have a other gramma