Real Irish Music - Sweet Sixteen in O'Donoghues Pub

[@dancingmolly3878]

When I was a very little girl (very many moons ago now) I was in my grandmas kitchen when she asked me to fetch her glasses from her bag in the sitting room. My grandfather was in the garden tending to the roses as I walked up the hall to get my grannies glasses for her. As I was about to leave the Sitting Room I was stopped dead in my tracks by the sound of my grandfathers beautiful singing voice. He had come in from the garden to give my grandma some of the roses and to sing this song to her. When I peeped round the corner of the doorframe I could see them in the kitchen at the end of the hallway, and they were dancing together as my grandpa sang. My grandad died when I was 9, and my grandma subsequently passed nearly 35 years ago now, yet when I hear this song and I close my eyes, I can see them dancing around the kitchen as vividly as if it happened only yesterday. Thank you for posting this beautifully played song.❤❤xxx

[@philipg6397]

What a nice story

[@garysinclairbarsby6675]

A beautiful memory to hold onto.

[@paulabowen6077]

This is one of my favourite romantic irish songs thanks for playing it!Wish those times could return singing togethervin Erin!

[@patrickrooney5130]

Ahhh that's lovely.

[@CharlesQuinn-kq5xp]

Who ever you are that was a very very Beautiful text, about your Grandma and Grandad dancing in the kitchen, I will think of you and light a candle for you and wish you God's Blessing at this time Best wishes always.CAQ

[@KeithHill-wc3ew]

I spent my 70 birthday listening to the jamming session in O’Donoghues ,my best birthday ever loved every minute.

[@jerrykandies2335]

Spent my 77th at O'Donoghues. Sláinte

[@dolorescoulson2156]

My word ,what beautiful singers and musicians.Love that song .Bango and all so beautiful.Thank you, amazing.😁

[@marmottefrance8947]

🇮🇪 I visited Ireland several times but only twice I have had the possibility to join such a private session in a pub😊 the atmosphere was always as marvellous as in this lovely video/I'm sending lots of greetings from Germany 🇩🇪🇮🇪🍀

[@tomhanlon2212]

Magical. The world needs more of you wonderful people x

[@paulmolloy6818]

just magic all the best from Australia x

[@katharynedge1257]

Love the lady playing the banjo, shes brilliant, this songs so lovely ❤ x

[@verenamaharajah6082]

How beautifully that lady played the banjo!

[@alcline]

beautiful

[@thatpanamahatlife1497]

Made the song 🤗

[@seanfitzsimons7623]

Her name is Aine and along with her group plays every Wednesday night in Foxes Skyrne Co Meath.

[@IRISHFELLA2010]

Very rare

[@christineelcock7575]

It cant get more beautiful than that!what a lovely performance by the lady on the banjo she played so well in timing with the singer.Thankyou😊❤

[@fanore8109]

God bless Ireland and her patriots

[@markirish7599]

Blessings from Ireland 🇮🇪 to you and your family

[@doniehurley7634]

AMEN

[@amsodoneworkingnow1978]

Perry Como!!! Considering the song was written in the mid 1800's I don't think so somehow

[@keesdenouden1554]

Awalys loved this song i.m born irish live ïn holland over 50 years. Love ireland

[@thewards1867]

Beautiful song, singing, musicianship......everything..so soulful...loved the banjo playing.... magic!

[@desgardner7169]

Real musicians real music to your ears....There is no substitute for real music! I enjoyed that, thank you!

[@elainehernen286]

No one can sing like the Irish adore their music so entertaining ❤

[@paulharris5671]

Best pub ,local,lovely people heart warming ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤞

[@glennclark5642]

Reminds me of many a good night in our canteens in south Lebanon some years ago, dosnt happen now days but what good times amongst the bad, god bless guys keep the head down.

[@pamelacondila7828]

I almost started to tearing up listening to this beautiful Irish folk song, Feeling my Scott's Irish ancestry blood flowing through my veins, Lady playing the banjo was absolutely amazing

[@barryphillips7790]

Love the banjo holding it together. Fine player.

[@Marany1971]

Greetings for all, in County Clare

[@rw8733]

Crying my eyes out. Beautiful.

[@stevehanley4248]

this is what makes great Music and song in a pub all welcome 🙂

[@garysinclairbarsby6675]

How can anyone hear this beautiful song and not join in. Well played. 😊😊

[@ttonypayne5077]

Thank you for this. This song along with some others remind me of my beautiful late wife, every time I hear it feels me with sadness and memories. I met my late wife when she was 16 and lost after 54 years Engaged when she was 18 married when she was 20. Lost her to cancer 205

[@NSResponder]

My condolences for your loss. May her memory be a blessing to you and everyone else who knew her.

[@michaelosullivan298]

My sympathy Tony ..we have similar story.

[@ttonypayne5077]

Thank you, and of course my sympathy to your good self. At least nothing can remove our memoties until we see them again.@@michaelosullivan298

[@stevekoffman6770]

Same for me. Thanks

[@soobee6060]

Watching from NZ. Wish I was there at this pub. Fabulous!

[@Rebecca-n7n]

One of Mom and Dads favorites. I can see them sitting in the kitchen with their guitars, singing. This mans' voice sounds a great bit like my Dads.

[@johntait491]

A great sound. Fine singing and an excellent banjo player..!!

[@jankronnas2185]

Best ever on the Banjo!

[@lindacleveland1289]

As a child I remember my Grandad singing this to my Gran ❤I’m 80 years old and I cherish this memory, in fact I am feeling so emotional as I write this 🥹

[@dianehargreaves4828]

1 of my mams songs, I love you av I've never loved before .I loved you as I've loved you.

[@michaeljones3694]

Love Dublin and it's people. From a Scouser

[@wickie2222]

What a Quality voice that Man has! !

[@seaniek9175]

No one can sing this like Finbar Furey. Irish soul singing at it's best

[@michaelosullivan298]

GIVE THEM A BREAK.. THEY ARE GREAT

[@percymonster1]

Maybe you’re right but this is pretty good and the atmosphere of a pun too, I don’t know when this was filmed and whether it’s still like that but in England our character pubs are disappearing fast, only ones surviving really are the characterless food pubs.

[@noraodywer4917]

That lady played the banjo well fare play to her it so nice to be with the lovely muscinas thanks

[@williamgoggin3633]

This is the real Irish how music was back when sadly today's a different story

[@padraichorgan]

love the sound that lady is making with the banjo

[@mandyhayes7287]

Oh how I would love to go to a old Irish bar 🙂

[@michaelmcgrath1381]

I worked there when Dessie hynes owned it what a gentleman to work for I loved it there

[@barrybrennan7384]

A gent RIP

[@dilwynjones6560]

Love this lady playing the banjo🌹🌹

[@garriecortelyou9280]

Use to hear parents sing this. Great memories.

[@angelastannard1405]

My dearest grandad 💙 sang this to me❤😊😊xx

[@richarddavis3239]

Loved it! Thank you.

[@seamusomallie]

I met my wife in O'Donoghues🥰

[@Joseph-dr5tz]

So did I ..God help me.

[@mos1654]

Fabulous…and the lady behind is gorgeous too

[@Leif-Joson-Johannesson]

I envy Ireland for it's music tradition. We do have traditional music in Sweden as well, but nothing like this.

[@stpeterscooksriver1873]

James Thornton, the author of this song, I suspect was more American than anything else. A Vaudeville performer in America, he wrote it in 1898. His parents were Irish, but there is some doubt as to his place of birth, perhaps Ireland but maybe Liverpool England or even the good old U.S.A. How much a patriotic Irishman he was, seems open to question, but he was very much in love with his wife, for he wrote the song about her, and it is indeed gloriously sentimental song.

[@tomasfm3124]

This is beautiful it gave me the goose bumps

[@tonyhawkes2040]

Perfect to end a night

[@geraldaird9390]

Fantastic! One of my favourite songs, whether by Al Jolson, Finbar, the Furey's or O'Donoghue's Bar. It makes me sick that I am English and found this so late in life.

[@aidankearney493]

Don't be hard on yourself. you are always welcome in an Irish bar.

[@mikki3562]

You are a decent man to say such a thing, but you know there's no need. Some of our great patriots were English or had English heritage. We're a universal people and you would be at home among us.

[@itwasntme8770]

@@mikki3562 As a northern prod who served to keep the peace, but who always since a teen harboured a wish for Irish unity commend you on your magnanimous words to the original poster. It's folk like you who extend the welcoming hand of friendship and kinship who will make the dream of unity a reality. Better to encourage and convince than to force and coerce. I commend you sir.

[@sentimentaloldme]

Well sung & played..

[@Behwyelzebub]

Wonderful.

[@IrishMusicCountry]

Excellent.

[@robmcnaughton6918]

Gods, how I miss it!! There was an Irish pub near us, and if I was late that was the first place my wife called.

[@miriamfitzmaurice3884]

Love the Bangor great group of musicians

[@geedubb2005]

I loved the banjo! I tip my hat to you mam

[@Spaceman-jb7hf]

Good people playing good music.

[@patriciamay3779]

The Best. Authentic.

[@arthurashton7763]

They should build a bridge from Liverpool to Dublin . This pub would be my local ha ha

[@itahayes6165]

Love love the Bango🌻😊

[@alechallwood512]

BEAUTIFUL

[@mandyhayes7287]

Thank you for sharing

[@NSResponder]

Songwriter: James Thornton (1861-1936). First published by M. W. Fischer and company, New York, 1898.

[@TeresaBowman-j8y]

I am Gerry Giffney The Man who gave Jack Charlton his Irish job and we beat England in Stuttgart in 1988. Slainte.

[@louisvdb1036]

Breaks my heart that proper pubs are dying out where I live. Now its just sport bars......no place to have have a drink and a good old singalong anymore.....

[@jayd1974]

Mighty song🇮🇪👍

[@brendanbrowne7708]

Damm it, it got me!!

[@charlottedowling2241]

Beautiful song .❤

[@hughmcbeath5463]

Brilliant 🍺

[@johnwatson9803]

You can't beat a couple of pints of the blackstuff and a good old time singsong.

[@DanPurdy1]

Actually, sung by the Mills Brothers here in the USA in the 30’s. I love the song.

[@suecasey4953]

Loved it .......ta ❤

[@brendanmcnamara1414]

Proper soul music enjoy a pint and enjoy great musicians salt of the earth

[@billedward77]

Forty years ago I tried one evening to get into O'Donohughe's but it was standing room only. Behind the din of conversation, I could hear a fiddle and a flute playing an Irish tune. A patron squeezed out of the crowd and said "God, you can hardly breathe in there!" It looked like I would have to fight my way to the bar, so I gave O'Donohughe's a miss. But back then you never could tell who was going to drop into the pub unannounced, maybe the likes of one of the Fury brothers, or the Chieftans, or Christie Moore, well-known singers who had played there before they became well-known. And by the way, the pub is in Merrion Row, not Suffolk Street.

[@realirishmusic]

Hi Bill there are 2 pubs in the same area with the same name, both are famous for music, the address for this one is correct 👍

[@billedward77]

@@realirishmusic Did O' Donohughe expand his operation? I wouldn't be surprised. I went back to Merrion Row a couple times and still couldn't get in and I don't recall the one on Suffolk St. being there. (A good location to capture the Trinity crowd.) There were a few popular watering holes back then but O'Donohughes had to be the busiest of them all. Cheers from Victoria British Columbia.

[@realirishmusic]

That I'm not sure, Greetings to Victoria, British Columbia Bill, you know your way around Dublin. 😊

[@alekshai9629]

Beautiful music

[@Dubliners39]

Amazing 🪕

[@brendanbayer5002]

Beautiful

[@katharynedge1257]

Brilliant 🎉🎉❤❤

[@brucesteele3052]

Lovely.

[@marionmounsey4737]

Gorgeous

[@robbiekennedy1029]

Lovely banjo playing

[@andrewclancy1825]

Wonderful.... But I nearly cried watching that pint almost go off

[@brendanmcnamara1414]

What a lovely piece on the banjo to embellish the gentle singer. Played to encourage the singer not to drown not to outrun Great manners if she played all night I would only be too Glad to enjoy. I hope she appears again

[@boku5192]

lovely

[@patriciamay3779]

A different World. Amen.

[@janm2473]

Exquisite......

[@keenokeeno9064]

Love it❤

[@ΑντωνηςΜανωλαγκας]

Love this song

[@raymonddixon7603]

Sweet sixteen is the most unreal Irish song you could ever get!!! I believe Perry Como had a hand in writing it. It is an American pop song!!!! For gods sake!!!!

[@richarddavis3239]

So what exactly is your point? Are you trying to be helpful?

[@christinequinn5355]

Actually no. It was composed in 1898 by James Thornton, an American Vaudeville performer whose parents were Irish. It just happens to be a beautiful song that many Irish people love to sing.

[@raymonddixon7603]

@christinequinn5355 Ye on reflection you are right. I remember now my father used to sing it and he complained that people missed a verse which he sang. I must have had a senior moment when I was writing that text 🤔🤔

[@terrydonegan1622]

Give the lady on the banjo a kiss from me xx

[@bobseguin2195]

Nice...❤

[@ngangnenchilalongchar9700]

Too good 😊 GBU

[@cathedralImages]

That ould doll handy on that banjo

[@geedubb2005]

That dark beer on the table made my mouth water

[@youtubemuzikantjeroenaarts5318]

Ferry good Irish music

[@EdwardMulhern-m1h]

Lady on banjo excellent

[@34tab]

I WANT TO GO TO IRELAND

[@dianescotter8089]

Tune❤x

[@louisvdb1036]

Lady on the banjo though......

[@woodsgift]

Beautiful rendition , who is the lady on the banjo?

[@realirishmusic]

Her name is Aine Kerr, a local musician

[@tobiasoellers146]

Only in Ireland.

[@norton750cc]

Is that Zelinski standing at the bar??

[@rapier1954]

If he wasn't he'd be wishing he was if he listened to this video.

[@Dermot-w9k]

What chords are the guitar guys playing?