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    "Theme from Harry's Game" is a 1982 song by Clannad commissioned as the theme for Harry's Game, a Yorkshire Television mini-series adapted from a 1975 novel set in The Troubles in Northern Ireland. It was released as a single in October 1982 and became a surprise hit, reaching number 5 in the UK Singles Chart.
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    Lyrics
    Imtheochaidh soir is siar
    A dtainig ariamh
    An ghealach is an ghrian
    Fol lol the doh fol the day
    Fol the doh fol the day
    Imtheochaidh an ghealach's an ghrian
    An Daoine og is a chail 'na dhiadh
    Fol lol the doh fol the day
    Fol the doh fol the day
    Fol lol the doh fol the day
    Fol the doh fol the day
    Imtheochaidh a dtainig ariamh
    An duine og is a chail ne dhiadh
    Fol lol the doh fol the day
    Fol the doh fol the day

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  • @paulbateman3922
    @paulbateman3922 10 місяців тому +180

    100% Goosebumps - even on the 1000th hearing

    • @PandaAmanda-b5p
      @PandaAmanda-b5p 7 місяців тому +3

      Yes ❤

    • @geraldinekelly8447
      @geraldinekelly8447 6 місяців тому +2

      Agree 💯 😊

    • @jimmylieb5225
      @jimmylieb5225 2 місяці тому

      oh yes!

    • @dennishuyvaert1416
      @dennishuyvaert1416 Місяць тому

      I actually heard this amazing song for the first time on the U2 Under a Blood Red Sky Concert video from 1983 . It is in the beginning and the end .

  • @CS58420
    @CS58420 Рік тому +189

    Watched Patriot Games in the late 1990's as a teen and never forgot this song. Crazy to find it all these years later. Great music

    • @MrPHUCKYOURSELF
      @MrPHUCKYOURSELF 10 місяців тому +11

      That’s me holding my temper Jimmy boy!

    • @Kosher_Slider
      @Kosher_Slider 9 місяців тому +11

      That’s where I first heard it too

    • @BobSmith-dk8nw
      @BobSmith-dk8nw 7 місяців тому +3

      It's been used other times. I think in some Tom Clancy movie with Harrison Ford.
      .

    • @Kosher_Slider
      @Kosher_Slider 7 місяців тому +5

      @@BobSmith-dk8nw the movie you’re talking about is patriot games.

    • @RubbittTheBruise
      @RubbittTheBruise 7 місяців тому +11

      Ok. Now watch "Harry's Game".

  • @jhwheuer
    @jhwheuer 6 місяців тому +279

    A friend of my wife’s sang this at our wedding in Wicklow more than 20 years ago. Brutal. She is trained in classic Irish singing and sounded just like that. No instruments, just her voice. Could hear a pin drop. Folks from all over the world just fell silent.

    • @toriwoods9800
      @toriwoods9800 6 місяців тому +11

      How beautiful ❤

    • @Puffafish1
      @Puffafish1 6 місяців тому +6

      Did you record it?

    • @CerealExperimentsMizuki
      @CerealExperimentsMizuki 5 місяців тому

      I doubt you had any figures from around the world, at least no important ones, unless your wife's friend was friends with famous presidents and politicians and celebrities.

    • @GregiiFlieger
      @GregiiFlieger 5 місяців тому +10

      Gaelic is coming back… The most beautiful language ever. Enya did it justice… 😢

    • @chrislees8951
      @chrislees8951 5 місяців тому +14

      @@GregiiFlieger the singer in Clannad Moyà Brennan is Enya’s sister.

  • @mothmagic1
    @mothmagic1 Рік тому +639

    No matter how many times I hear this it always sends a shiver down my spine.

    • @rohansrider
      @rohansrider Рік тому +18

      This was also in the film Patriot Games. It was used in a clever way to emphasise the impact of the previous series about the Northern Irish problems .

    • @teambammotorsport7249
      @teambammotorsport7249 Рік тому +14

      same for me it's one of those songs that does that anyone from this era

    • @markleandan8707
      @markleandan8707 Рік тому +5

      Me too ! 😯

    • @ubermick4208
      @ubermick4208 Рік тому +4

      Jaysus, right??

    • @kjell240
      @kjell240 Рік тому +3

      A M E N

  • @stephenhowlett6345
    @stephenhowlett6345 4 роки тому +978

    One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Celtic through and through.

    • @basic6154
      @basic6154 3 роки тому +8

      just music originating from humans in a different place

    • @aine7173
      @aine7173 3 роки тому +47

      Irish not celtic. We are not all one entity. To use the term celtic doesn't give recognition to a very irish song about a very irish issue.

    • @Gommerell
      @Gommerell 3 роки тому +15

      @@aine7173 Thats true.
      But the poignancy of this song is even more appreciated when one considers the backdrop.
      A British Cabinet minister had been assassinated in London by the IRA.
      So the British sent their best man (an SAS Captain who happened to be Irish ) into Belfast to find the assassin and kill him.
      It was how their meeting unfolded that made the song so heart wrenching.

    • @Michal_Wuszu_Pawlik
      @Michal_Wuszu_Pawlik 2 роки тому +3

      yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @andijans2735
      @andijans2735 2 роки тому +2

      Absolutely

  • @dman1417
    @dman1417 10 місяців тому +89

    For years I’ve loved the song ‘Saltwater’ by Chicane and had no idea the hook was a sample of this song until I was watching Patriot Games on TV one night and recognized it during the scene where the IRA assassins come to O’Donnell’s house. I immediately ran to search up this song, and boy I’m so glad I found it. What a beautiful and haunting piece of music.

    • @Puffafish1
      @Puffafish1 7 місяців тому +4

      It hits on a different level, I lived through the troubles and lost many loved ones, blessings to you and your family🌻🌻

    • @androidemulator6952
      @androidemulator6952 7 місяців тому +3

      Chicane / Saltwater... now i recognize it!

    • @CarmelDeery-qc9lv
      @CarmelDeery-qc9lv 6 місяців тому +1

      Glad u did .!!!. Good health to enjoy it.😊

    • @jamescombridgeart
      @jamescombridgeart 6 місяців тому +2

      Literally here for the exact same reason lol! Man what a throwback it was hearing it. Recognised instantly

    • @jamescampbellhenderson1689
      @jamescampbellhenderson1689 5 місяців тому +2

      Yea Nick Bracegirdle " Chicane "loved the track and wanted to play about with it, but contacted Moya Brennan asking if they fanced a re sing of the track, and the overlayed harmonies are what u hear, the rest is history,,,,,,,,,so to speak,,,,,,classic

  • @toriwoods9800
    @toriwoods9800 6 місяців тому +126

    I first heard this song as a young child when my father watched Harrys game, it stxckwirh me ever since, 40 yrs later, i still play this tune.My dad passed away 9/3/24, he taught me so much. I love u dad, miss u x

    • @carlosfalcon2099
      @carlosfalcon2099 3 місяці тому

      Thoughts and prayers are with you and your loved ones my friend ✝️🙏💐

    • @batphink2655
      @batphink2655 2 місяці тому

      So sorry for your loss. Yes a beautiful song that my half Irish side empathizes with.

  • @lorrainefeletti5194
    @lorrainefeletti5194 Рік тому +170

    My mum was from County Cork and spoke Gaelic. She loved this song and it always reminds me of her and her love of the true Irish language. R.I.P Breda. Forever loved and missed. Vich noch dio lat. ❤❤xxx

    • @preacherman9018
      @preacherman9018 Рік тому

      My heart goes out to you.
      The love of a child and parent is one of the most powerful forces on earth. God bless you and yours.
      I hope the following short video is a blessing to you.
      ua-cam.com/video/qv0rnnUdk-I/v-deo.html

    • @gabbimurphy687
      @gabbimurphy687 8 місяців тому +1

      Ar dheis De go raibh di. x

    • @gabbimurphy687
      @gabbimurphy687 8 місяців тому

      si.

    • @niallcoughlan-og2hq
      @niallcoughlan-og2hq 8 місяців тому +3

      A REBEL YOUR MOTHER WAS MAY SHE REST IN PEACE

    • @carlosfalcon2099
      @carlosfalcon2099 2 місяці тому

      @@lorrainefeletti5194 thoughts and prayers for your beloved mother ✝️💖💐🙏

  • @stevenbigland6193
    @stevenbigland6193 Рік тому +125

    Lived through the 80s near London. I never understood why someone would want to bomb my school. We had bomb threats every term. We were afraid and many reacted angrily. Too many have died on both sides. It has mostly stopped but there is a serious undercurrent.
    The take away... Don't pass your hatreds into the next generation. No good thing will come of it.

    • @robertclark2253
      @robertclark2253 10 місяців тому

      I live in London and have done since 1979 some of the things since then would've blown most peoples minds especially those across the Atlantic or anyone born after 1990 .Strikes , protests , wars , riots , terrorist threats almost on the daily , communism against capitalism and even eco disasters .

    • @mirola73
      @mirola73 6 місяців тому +2

      Yet it happens. Unfortunately there are still quite a few 'bitter ones' on both sides, nationalist and unionist.

    • @bearcatXF
      @bearcatXF 5 місяців тому +3

      Look up the book "Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture".

    • @straywolf77
      @straywolf77 4 місяці тому +3

      Happens, especially when messing with other people's lives. Certain actions cause reactions.

    • @colinharbinson8284
      @colinharbinson8284 2 місяці тому

      @@bearcatXF Or you could take the point the man is making.

  • @billyclarke3676
    @billyclarke3676 3 роки тому +153

    This is one of those songs that you never want to end

    • @jonragnarsson
      @jonragnarsson 3 роки тому +6

      And yet it is only 2:30 minutes. Cruel.

    • @paultreadaway102
      @paultreadaway102 Рік тому +2

      It's so short so many wonderful songs need to be longer this needs like most have if it hasn't remix,12inch to extended most great songs deserve too

  • @dougdobbins6533
    @dougdobbins6533 5 років тому +575

    This is a beautiful piece of music. It has stirred my soul since the first time I heard it years ago.

    • @davidfelix2594
      @davidfelix2594 4 роки тому +1

      Loon

    • @BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp
      @BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp 4 роки тому +20

      @@davidfelix2594 if a piece of music like this hasn't touched the very core of your being then honestly you must have no heart or soul..Because this piece of music stirs up and invokes such emotion in a person, that can't be quantified or measured respectively!!

    • @s1050
      @s1050 4 роки тому +11

      Yeah it’s incredible. From that first synth note to Maire’s awesome voice. It’s perfection

    • @anthonydevitt3206
      @anthonydevitt3206 4 роки тому +3

      Same mate

    • @geraldoloughlin8307
      @geraldoloughlin8307 4 роки тому +8

      It's Ireland...those voices from Clannad, including Enya are my Irish soul...make me teary at times.

  • @Chris-nf3sg
    @Chris-nf3sg Рік тому +57

    2.words "Haunting and Beautiful".

  • @jewelsquinlan333
    @jewelsquinlan333 Рік тому +33

    My husband and I are watching the Patriot games. So I decided to look up this song and here it is. Joined UA-cam channel. 🎶❤🎶

  • @cerilloyd9277
    @cerilloyd9277 Рік тому +39

    Loved this group from the moment Harrys Game came out the haunting music the clear and beautiful voice havebeen lucky enough to see them many times

    • @simonidastankovic2627
      @simonidastankovic2627 5 місяців тому +2

      They exist since 1970 when they were firmed and during the thde 70s they performing pure Irish old Folk acoustic/vocal....until the 1982 when they started to compose songs on their own and this was the start: they swiched to synthesiser, electronics and the Celtic genre was born !

  • @gerardwhite2689
    @gerardwhite2689 4 роки тому +216

    The most haunting piece of music ever recorded

    • @alexdrosos9122
      @alexdrosos9122 4 роки тому +3

      Gerard White almost

    • @kathy571
      @kathy571 3 роки тому +3

      She has the voice of an angel! Sounds like this music is coming straight out of heaven!

    • @DaddyLaser
      @DaddyLaser 3 роки тому

      agreed.. its haunted m since i was born.
      Also the track maire brennan did with sonny condell Downrunning is on par but far lesser known

    • @biggerburke
      @biggerburke 2 роки тому

      A close second to Adagio in G Minor

    • @tomfitzpatrick7335
      @tomfitzpatrick7335 2 роки тому +1

      Perfect enough to listen to for the death of Queen Elizabeth II
      Farewell your Majesty

  • @marksims3904
    @marksims3904 2 місяці тому +13

    Found it! I've finally found the piece of music that has been rolling through my head for years!! I now have closure, thank you Clannad for a magnificent and emotional spiritual journey. Beautiful and haunting.

  • @josephmcgonigle880
    @josephmcgonigle880 Рік тому +86

    This song is one of the most haunting songs I know makes you reflect on people no longer here. ❤

  • @chrisholland7367
    @chrisholland7367 3 роки тому +781

    For anyone that doesn't understand the musical connection.
    Harry's Game produced in the 80's about the troubles in Northern Ireland.
    A British Army agent is sent to the heart of Belfast to track down a gunman responsible for the killing of a British politician. It's an incredibly powerful drama. Adapted from a book by Gerald Seymour really worth a watch.

    • @BipoIarbear
      @BipoIarbear 3 роки тому +10

      I only just found it , only prob is only free one was on you tube so I couldn't get into it so gonna buy it , but I could tell from the first 20 min this was truly the 80s and the ira with kinda defined each other

    • @rusty7720
      @rusty7720 3 роки тому +42

      I'm Irish ,though I live in New Zealand.Met a big heavily built britt with a strong southwest english accent.he wore heavy black military boots .He had recently imigrated to New Zealand.He realisied my surname and he being careful told me he was in the british army.I asked him why he left,his reply" I was shit scared of being posted to Northern Ireland" .I mentioned Harry's Game,that was the end of the conversation.

    • @mickdunne981
      @mickdunne981 3 роки тому +12

      A briiliant film.👍

    • @albertedwarddeguzman4012
      @albertedwarddeguzman4012 3 роки тому +5

      Gaelic Music

    • @basic6154
      @basic6154 3 роки тому +41

      as an england born person,I wish the people born in ireland peace and a realisation people live on land and not in a religion

  • @odetteswann7694
    @odetteswann7694 Рік тому +97

    Rest in glory, Padraig and Noel. Your spirits will live forever in the music you left for us ❤️❤️❤️

    • @darreng745
      @darreng745 Рік тому +3

      @chrisbloodknot2380 The Gaelic version of Patrick, these days there is no shame in carrying a name that has been Gaelicised.

    • @leandrogasperi3332
      @leandrogasperi3332 Рік тому +4

      So both of them have died?? I knew about one, some years ago. But didn't know about the other.

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Рік тому

      @@darreng745 you see paddy is a good riish soul but if there is a pake or pakie in your area then thats a atn too thick to know that peac and peacai (pronounced pake and pakie) means sinful and riddled with sins ..peac being sin ..but shh they are gong around the place earwigging and being loyal to the child rapists and spying and lying for cape drink from the informer class that they are ...

    • @BCOZ-nb2lo
      @BCOZ-nb2lo Рік тому +10

      I also knew that one of the twins had died but not the other. I fondly recall dropping into a pub in Dublin one night in 1994 when the World Cup was on in the USA. I started chatting about the football with another bloke propping up the bar, and after we had been chatting for a while he asked where I was from. I replied that it was from Perth, Australia and he told me that he had been there, and his band had played at the Perth Concert Hall. I asked him what was the name of his band, and he replied 'Clannad'. I proceeded to tell him how I had their album PastPresent. It turned out that the bloke was Noel Duigan. We had a good long chat over a few beers. RIP Noel - I shall always remember chatting with you that night in a Dublin pub.

    • @UpBirr1
      @UpBirr1 7 місяців тому

      @@BCOZ-nb2lo I worked on a building site back in 1993 in Berlin with a group of Irish. There were three other Irish lads on a different job on the site who kept themselves very much to themselves. The tallest had a limp, something which occurs when the feet come into contact regularly with wet sand. The smallest fellow lost the tip of his finger when a shuttering board slid down over it. One day I dropped a bag of cement from my shoulder and as it was quitting time, I left it there. Three days later I got chatting to the middle sized of the other three lads. He told me that the German foreman was a a b....d and had accused him to leaving the bag of cement out. It was the middle of winter and cement does not take kindly to temperatures below zero. He told me that he could not speak German and the only word he could use to get across his displeasure was the word 'scheisse'. He went on to tell me he was part of the group Clannad but left as there was too much internal wrangling. Don't ask me which of the twins it was but I am sorry to hear that one of them has passed on. I am sorry too that I did not own up and take the blame.

  • @Round_Zero
    @Round_Zero Місяць тому +10

    Why does this song bring a tear to my eye every time, I’m 34 now and throughout my whole life listening to this. 😢❤

  • @MadScientyst
    @MadScientyst 2 роки тому +111

    When I first heard this song, it haunted me so much that I became obsessed to find out more about Gaelic & this mysterious Irish group 'clan as dobhar' aka Clannad. Started to collect their Albums (very difficult at the time far away in the western Caribbean), but I built it slowly starting with Anam, Banba & PastPresent. Then came 'The Last of The Mohicans' & thx to the P2P Networks, I was able to get the rare traditional gems like An Diolam, Cran Ull, Dulaman, Fuaim, Legend, Rogha, etc....I'll NEVER get tired of Clannad. After Enigma, they're my all-time favorite group!

    • @MadScientyst
      @MadScientyst 2 роки тому +4

      @Mike McGrath-Bryan On Vinyl! Wow....I gotta visit Ireland, one for the retirement Bucket list yes!!

    • @CB-sn4xh
      @CB-sn4xh Місяць тому

      Enya is their Sister..Sacred Ireland they Embody☘️

  • @derekstocker6661
    @derekstocker6661 2 роки тому +27

    RIP Noel, so sad, still listening to you.

  • @theredseventhousand
    @theredseventhousand 2 місяці тому +12

    Oh the heart burst through my chest, when as a lad in central Ireland, hearing this song for the first time made me understand what an honour it is to be a true son of Ériú...

    • @a.y.t.a.s.494
      @a.y.t.a.s.494 2 місяці тому

      And today? What do you say?

    • @theredseventhousand
      @theredseventhousand 2 місяці тому +2

      @@a.y.t.a.s.494
      We are losing our 3200 year old country.

    • @a.y.t.a.s.494
      @a.y.t.a.s.494 2 місяці тому

      @@theredseventhousand agreed, being led by corrupt officials. My brothers partner came from mountmellick, lovely part of Ireland

  • @pacw1955
    @pacw1955 8 місяців тому +11

    What a masterpiece. This song certainly gives me a subliminal message, making me shiver.

  • @aerogain
    @aerogain 11 місяців тому +14

    a powerful song , may it heal many wells never forgotten

  • @Ord_Wingate
    @Ord_Wingate 2 роки тому +1317

    My uncle was killed by the IRA back in the 1970s, what a waste of life the troubles have been, on both sides. How many families torn apart? Such a tragic part of history. Let's hope that peace will continue there and the rifts healed, and that the dead will rest

    • @Ord_Wingate
      @Ord_Wingate 2 роки тому +1

      @@Roadmaster2006 like I said what a waste. How is it that humans can do these things to one another? Killing and raping and murdering innocent people. I've never understood it

    • @pascalstark6092
      @pascalstark6092 2 роки тому +45

      Mooi nummer, schrijf of mail in het Nederlands zal niet veel begrijpen de spanningen in Engeland, Noord Ierland en Ierland. Ben zelf katholiek, maar in Nederland kan ik het goed vinden met anders gelovigen zo lang we respect vol omgaan met elkaar, en dat gaat goed in Nederland. Wens iedereen het allerbeste, iedereen verdiend een gelukkig leven met zijn dierbare familie en vrienden.

    • @Roadmaster2006
      @Roadmaster2006 2 роки тому

      @Dan's Sniper School
      we'll find you....or your family. 'tis no threat, it's a promise.

    • @petesmart1983
      @petesmart1983 2 роки тому +2

      Well it's not IRAs fault for thousands of years of oppression and slavery from the Brits

    • @scantrahan
      @scantrahan 2 роки тому

      @J. wanker

  • @clairedainton6712
    @clairedainton6712 2 роки тому +189

    This beautiful piece of music was played at my cousin's funeral. It is the 4th anniversary of his passing. 😥💙

  • @Maderyne
    @Maderyne Рік тому +40

    I first heard this song when I watched Patriot Games. Whenever I hear this song, it never fails to bring me to tears. So soulful it is.

    • @Oath_Keeper1979
      @Oath_Keeper1979 Рік тому +5

      That’s me holding my temper Jimmy boy

    • @nickwebb8197
      @nickwebb8197 Рік тому +3

      Same here. I'd never heard of Clannad before Patriot Games.

    • @shakeybeatz
      @shakeybeatz Рік тому

      Same here. Definitely a sound that stays with you.

    • @nickwebb8197
      @nickwebb8197 Рік тому

      @@Oath_Keeper1979 Right. Then the big bearded fella gets murdered just after a session in the sack with the young and luscious Polly Walker. My intro to her. Been a fan ever since.

  • @christopherblanchard-w5z
    @christopherblanchard-w5z 3 місяці тому +10

    Played for my grandads funeral, a catholic of Irish descent. Also called Harry. It suited his character so well

  • @billballbuster7186
    @billballbuster7186 11 місяців тому +6

    I remember the serial Harrys Game and have always loved this music, so haunting, and became a fan of Clannad and later Enya,

  • @Antoward
    @Antoward 3 місяці тому +11

    Growing up in the 1980 there was nothing like robin of Sherwood in truth we had some great television series but robin of Sherwood was simply magic in a class of its own clanned made the series so unforgettable

    • @jimmylieb5225
      @jimmylieb5225 2 місяці тому +1

      One of my favorite programs from 30 yrs ago! I used to savor every minute of Robinhood. I was unemployed at the time. watching it took my mind away from my situation

  • @davebaggerman894
    @davebaggerman894 4 роки тому +112

    Brings me to tears even after all these years, so beautiful.

  • @konstantinkorbut5621
    @konstantinkorbut5621 4 місяці тому +12

    It's pure magic, both the song and the performance. I do not understand Irish Gaelic, just feel mesmerized each time I hear it. One of my all time favourites.

  • @Longi1974
    @Longi1974 4 роки тому +123

    I love the scene in Patriot Games when Patrick Bergin's character is sat watching this on TV in his isolated cottage whilst those assassins approach.

    • @larsuppling981
      @larsuppling981 4 роки тому +27

      "This is me holding my temper Jimmy boy"

    • @Newdivide
      @Newdivide 4 роки тому +7

      After the attempt to kill him, his girlfriend shot Jimmy

    • @philancell884
      @philancell884 3 роки тому +3

      With an appropriate thunder storm coming

    • @_____7704
      @_____7704 3 роки тому +6

      Some of the most gangster isht ever... he has a Armsel Striker 12 gauge shotgun, sipping tea

    • @backyardblacksmith3090
      @backyardblacksmith3090 3 роки тому +3

      Yes, watching the movie right now on hulu

  • @patricknaughton1852
    @patricknaughton1852 4 роки тому +40

    Clannad have always been a great Irish group. This song is class.

    • @Palmtree-b1l
      @Palmtree-b1l 10 місяців тому

      So is B*witched Irish Most greatest band ever Cest la vie love that song

  • @friedolin1263
    @friedolin1263 Рік тому +11

    "Harry's Game" was broadcast once on Italy's RAI TV in the early 1980s in the late hour. No one understood the plot, although I loved this poignant melody. Ten years later, Ireland and Irish music became popular in Italy and the "Theme" was the soundtrack of an ice cream commercial.

  • @llamudos9809
    @llamudos9809 Рік тому +37

    Close your eyes and simply float away. It's so ethereal. It does send you somewhere else. Very few songs have that kind of affect or impact. Agree it sends a shiver to the spine!

  • @NigelRowley-v2o
    @NigelRowley-v2o 3 місяці тому +11

    Probably the best modern music masterpiece... Work of art...

  • @juliewillard1367
    @juliewillard1367 3 роки тому +170

    I played this at my dad’s funeral a year ago, he was from Ireland.🇮🇪

    • @angelg6565
      @angelg6565 2 роки тому +3

      R.I.P your Dad. 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @seanmacdomhnaill9
      @seanmacdomhnaill9 2 роки тому +2

      May he Rest Well ☘️ 🇮🇪

    • @andronikusable
      @andronikusable 2 роки тому +1

      Really?Lucky him,that way he was spare from listen to that p.o.s.

    • @ianjordan5532
      @ianjordan5532 2 роки тому +2

      I totally get this song . My deepest condolences 🙏 . I play this very offen lost my sister in 1981.

    • @brandon2912t
      @brandon2912t Рік тому +1

      I also commented on wanting one of Clannad songs played at my funeral and it is hard to choose as they all give me goosebumps but yesterday I managed to narrow it down lol! peace and love to you!:)

  • @iansheppard9264
    @iansheppard9264 2 роки тому +27

    The 1st record i ever bought age 14.. Had no idea what the words meant but, fell in love with the beautiful haunting melody.. They were troubled times producing such horrors and like this song such exquisite pure beauty.... Full volume, headphones on, dark room. This WILL transcend your soul......

    • @timmunslow2844
      @timmunslow2844 2 роки тому +1

      Don't think you need to know what the words mean. It's just utterly beautiful!

    • @martintroy371
      @martintroy371 Рік тому +3

      Imtheochaidh soir is siar I will go east and go west
      A dt�inig ariamh an ghealach is an ghrian From whence came the moon and the sun
      Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day
      Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day
      Imtheochaidh an ghealach's an ghrian The moon and the sun will go
      An duine �g is a ch�il 'na dhiadh And the young man with his reputation behind him
      Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day
      Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day
      Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day
      Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day
      Imtheochaidh a dt�inig ariamh I will go wherever he came from
      An duine �g is a ch�il ne dhiadh The young man with his reputation behind him
      Fol lol the doh, fol the day Fol lol the doh, fol the day
      Fol the doh, fol the day Fol the doh, fol the day

  • @teviottilehurst
    @teviottilehurst 3 роки тому +72

    Reminds me of being 21 (in 82) and the feeling of just starting out in life. Time flies

    • @fxq777
      @fxq777 Рік тому +4

      Now T, your post was tantalising .... please tell us (well me) how your life has gone ..., please .I 'm 67 by the way

    • @RobertSmith-rj9md
      @RobertSmith-rj9md Рік тому +5

      My Life’s wizzed past too..and I’m 67 …where did time go.. xx

    • @andywells397
      @andywells397 Рік тому +3

      Same age..me to

    • @Maderyne
      @Maderyne Рік тому +3

      Time is relative. At 18, standing in the front yard of my parent's home, I imagined what it would be like to be an old man of 70. Now at 70 years old, it feels pretty damn good! I was blessed with a good life, not grand by any means, a loss of loved ones, a divorce and estrangement of my children, but in all that, I was true to my convictions. Life is what a person makes of it.

  • @jespernielsen8549
    @jespernielsen8549 6 місяців тому +18

    A great book, a great series and the music is otherworldly beautiful.

  • @annabel1996
    @annabel1996 3 роки тому +58

    Oh, what a beautiful song... There is music that touches your heart, but this really touches my soul...

  • @ididyermom3273
    @ididyermom3273 4 роки тому +675

    This band was ridiculously talented.
    Enya's eldest sister is the lead singer.

    • @gerardwhite2689
      @gerardwhite2689 4 роки тому +41

      I didn't know that

    • @jonramsey6348
      @jonramsey6348 4 роки тому +35

      Whoa that’s a trip..... I love Enya and I just discovered this bunch recently I had no idea that they were sisters but I totally see the resemblance now.... wow that’s why I love checking the comments section lol

    • @irishcountrygirl78
      @irishcountrygirl78 4 роки тому +51

      @@jonramsey6348 yes they are from a village here in Donegal, the Gaeltacht area. Clannad are amazing. The whole family play instruments. Humble and talented.

    • @GAZMAN3510
      @GAZMAN3510 4 роки тому +18

      Moya Brennan or in English Marie Brennan

    • @soissesglaubsmir292
      @soissesglaubsmir292 4 роки тому +17

      @@GAZMAN3510 Moya is English, Máire Irish, but obviously same pronouncation

  • @philipnorris6542
    @philipnorris6542 2 роки тому +8

    R.I.P. Noel, yet another star in Heaven.

  • @stevew1669
    @stevew1669 Рік тому +7

    This has always haunted me, and still it does....such a simple melody, yet those strange notes sustained across the changes gives the Irish pathos an other-worldly feel. A little, unassuming masterpiece....

  • @eoghand1719
    @eoghand1719 Рік тому +17

    This song is a masterpiece as the sound of this track still remains modern.

  • @bertam.7726
    @bertam.7726 2 роки тому +29

    This is one of the songs that haunted me, years after hearing it somewhere I no longer remember. I didn't know the name of the song or the name of the band. It crossed my mind that the female singer sounded a little like Enya which I love her music... I was shocked to know it is actually her sister! All these years passed and I got shivers down my spine hearing this masterpiece, I felt like I was in a trance of some sorte. Simply incredible!

    • @joseteixeira5900
      @joseteixeira5900 2 роки тому +1

      That happened to me as well since I was a kid in the end 80’s, early 90’s. Then, not too many years ago, I thought this song could probably belong to Anette Cantor which has a really close vocal and vibrato type as Moyan. Enya is fascinating as well since I heard her in 91 for the 1st time, lauching the caribbean blue song, it was like my imaginary world in my 8 years old. I do really think genuine childrens perceive pure thing much closely than adults, so its not strange to like clannad, enya and vangelis from the beginning.

    • @mick2881
      @mick2881 2 роки тому

      me too Berta

    • @derkmanley3220
      @derkmanley3220 Рік тому

      WE SHOULD ALL BE IN MOURNING WORLDWIDE FOR ALL THE VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE, TAKEN FROM US TOO SOON BY FACELESS EVIL SEEKING TO BE KNOWN. LET US TOGETHER DECLARE OUR DEDICATION: WE WILL REMEMBER THE VICTIMS, THEIR SMILES, THEIR
      LAUGHS, THEIR UNIQUE WAYS OF CASTING THEIR SHADOWS ON A SUMMER DAY. AND LET US ALSO MAKE ANOTHER PLEDGE: TO PROMISE THE PERPETRATORS OF SENSELESS DEATH: YOU WILL NOT
      BE REMEMBERED; YOUR PLACE WILL BE IN AN UNMARKED GRAVE, YOUR HISTORY EXPUNGED FROM THE ANNALS OF MEMORY AND TIME.

    • @fxq777
      @fxq777 Рік тому +1

      B , you might like the Poison Glen by Clannad ....ethereal stuff

  • @valeriechapman1612
    @valeriechapman1612 3 роки тому +26

    Clannad. - Harry’s Game. This celtic song is hauntingly beautiful. They sing it with such sadness and devotion obviously with some religious innuendos. I’m not sure.
    It certainly makes an impression on me each time i hear it. Funnily enough, I can’t help but enjoy it.

    • @DaddyLaser
      @DaddyLaser 3 роки тому +1

      Agreed.. this song does things to me that I don't understand and I don't want to.

  • @tonyjedioftheforest1364
    @tonyjedioftheforest1364 3 роки тому +74

    One of my greatest memories was being invited to meet the band for about an hour after seeing them in concert in Sheffield. They were extremely interested in my opinions of their music and the concert itself. This meeting saved my life. Driving back home down the motorway the bonnet of my car flew up and wrapped around my windscreen. I could not see a thing and slammed on my brakes and stopped dead in the middle of the motorway. If I had been a hour earlier the road would have been busy and I would not have rated my chances of getting out alive. Thank you Clannad.

  • @nathanwildthorn6919
    @nathanwildthorn6919 Рік тому +29

    Her voice melts my very bones. So beautiful. 😢

  • @michaellafferty9866
    @michaellafferty9866 2 роки тому +17

    One of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard

  • @cerilloyd9277
    @cerilloyd9277 Рік тому +6

    Her voice every song she sings is haunting been lucky enough to see them live many times

  • @seansawyer580
    @seansawyer580 2 роки тому +12

    One of the best TV program about the troubles in Northern Ireland. I have many friends who service out there and said it true to life. Great song

  • @nhayres
    @nhayres 2 роки тому +62

    Beautiful stunning Irish band and music never ages only gets more beautiful ☘☘☘☘☘

  • @jonnymclaughlin477
    @jonnymclaughlin477 4 роки тому +24

    All these years later it has the power to transport you somewhere else when listening, wonder song , takes me back to 80s Northern Ireland .

  • @deb-1558
    @deb-1558 4 роки тому +202

    I get a medieval and mystical feel about this song and i don't know why and i love it 😍

    • @nenniyoung9682
      @nenniyoung9682 4 роки тому +10

      Bless your heart there is alot of sorrow in this song and hope

    • @jonramsey6348
      @jonramsey6348 4 роки тому +4

      I was wondering if it was just me lol..... I haven’t a clue what they’re saying but I hear struggle and triumph in their voices..... I’m working at my workbench with this song on repeat

    • @jrmetmoi
      @jrmetmoi 4 роки тому +6

      Busy Bee that's because Clannad and Enya sound like Gregorian chant music in a large hall somewhere but sung in Gaelic instead of in Latin

    • @gerryscully9248
      @gerryscully9248 4 роки тому +8

      Much older roots than medieval .... think Druid

    • @johndaarteest
      @johndaarteest 4 роки тому +4

      Very celtic, back wayyy back into the mists of time.... The time of myth and legend.

  • @LisaB.-kh5ku
    @LisaB.-kh5ku Рік тому +11

    This music gives me goosebumps beautiful.

  • @JohnHindes-c6l
    @JohnHindes-c6l Рік тому +9

    May there be peace for Mother Ireland and all her lost children

  • @astrosandtarots
    @astrosandtarots 2 роки тому +8

    R.I.P Noel, this beautiful masterpiece will live on forever...thank you for your amazing talent 👏 ❤️

  • @TihetrisWeathersby
    @TihetrisWeathersby 2 місяці тому +2

    Clannad never fail to deliver great music, From Happy and joyful to sad and depressing

  • @TihetrisWeathersby
    @TihetrisWeathersby Рік тому +21

    Such a haunting piece of music

  • @lukeschwartz7921
    @lukeschwartz7921 3 роки тому +8

    I just finished Harry's game, great book. I love learning about the Irish/English history.

  • @bratsbaby
    @bratsbaby 4 роки тому +53

    So glad I found this song again. The first time I heard it was the end of U2’s Live Under A Blood Red Sky video. I still have that video from 1982

    • @zachlepp2341
      @zachlepp2341 4 роки тому +4

      Same :)

    • @chicken2jail545
      @chicken2jail545 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah still have that on VHS.

    • @bratsbaby
      @bratsbaby 4 роки тому +1

      chicken2jail I do too!

    • @TJ-th1bo
      @TJ-th1bo 3 роки тому +1

      I have it on DVD now. I watch it at Christmas.

  • @BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp
    @BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp Рік тому +2

    Clanad is very inspiring, and should be an inspiration and a reminder to us all especially if we are indigenous lrish people to what we lost as a people of lreland in culture and language that belongs to us. That's why this can never be allowed to happen again. !

  • @colwynboy7279
    @colwynboy7279 3 роки тому +30

    Simply put, an absolute masterpiece.

  • @herridge819
    @herridge819 4 роки тому +20

    The music of Clannad sends a shiver down my spine and has a spiritual feel to it.

  • @tonyr.5673
    @tonyr.5673 Рік тому +6

    I forgot how much I am / was moved by this.

  • @aaroncirullo8563
    @aaroncirullo8563 3 роки тому +38

    2021 and still get goosebumps listening to this beautiful song. I remember when it first came out back in 1982 and Harrys Game being on TV.

  • @retohofmann5878
    @retohofmann5878 Рік тому +7

    We always loved Clannad here in Switzerland...they even made a livealbum not far from the place I live...great band!

    • @rechtschreib-exorzist8936
      @rechtschreib-exorzist8936 Рік тому

      Oh -ein waschechter Eidgenosse! Na, in DEM Fall muss ich dann ja wohl unbedingt fragen: kennst schon DIESEN Clannad-Auftritt? ua-cam.com/video/mdOFwuN8Nb0/v-deo.html

  • @ryanjofre
    @ryanjofre Рік тому +8

    You have to listen to this on a high end system to do this masterpiece justice!!!
    Seriously…..the high frequencies on this are so good that I use it to test tweeters.

  • @kevingreen3781
    @kevingreen3781 Рік тому +6

    So many great things have come from Ireland Clannad and Riverdance to name only a couple

    • @mitchelle4322
      @mitchelle4322 Рік тому

      U2, Guinness and Irish Stew

    • @jackbarnes8037
      @jackbarnes8037 Рік тому

      ​@@mitchelle4322Don't forget Jedward!🤣

    • @wor53lg50
      @wor53lg50 10 місяців тому +1

      @@jackbarnes8037 and graham norton...

  • @alanpatten468
    @alanpatten468 4 роки тому +19

    A truly beautiful and moving peace of music that somehow captures the anguish and pain of the troubles. I always find it deeply affecting and think of the brutality of those times.

  • @JohnC-ef7ct
    @JohnC-ef7ct 3 роки тому +20

    Words are not enough to say how good this is

  • @peteb8556
    @peteb8556 Рік тому +36

    I still have this record on a 45rpm record. From my time serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1974. It is such an haunting sound, it will never ever leave me. Northern Ireland is such a beautiful country.

    • @djd829
      @djd829 Рік тому +1

      uhh they wrote this song in 1982, bud

    • @peteb8556
      @peteb8556 Рік тому

      @CH1 ; its the United Kingdom, so you can go and get stuffed you Republican Communist Marxist IRA bum .

    • @janicelivett8892
      @janicelivett8892 Рік тому +2

      @@djd829he said - ‘from’ his time

    • @djd829
      @djd829 Рік тому

      @@janicelivett8892 Touche. I appreciate your correction.
      However, upon closer inspection, I would argue that "From my time serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1974." is not a sentence.
      I must have imputed a semicolon between the first and second "sentence" when I read it.

    • @xxxxxx-tq4mw
      @xxxxxx-tq4mw Рік тому +4

      Should be THE North of Ireland, not Northern Ireland, still colonized to this day.

  • @carolknight9595
    @carolknight9595 Рік тому +10

    Her voice was indescribable.

  • @philipgrier9376
    @philipgrier9376 11 місяців тому +2

    wonderful. Clannad at its best. Marie ne Brennan is unsurpassed in her beauty and her music. She and her family have enriched my life.

  • @BruceLee-zd9bw
    @BruceLee-zd9bw Рік тому +6

    This is just such a special song in many ways.
    It is so magical when all of the vocals fuse together.
    No song since or after has sounded anywhere near as good as this.
    Timeless.
    🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏

  • @Orlak3lly
    @Orlak3lly 4 роки тому +10

    This is one of those songs you don’t know the name of, you just know the song. Beautiful music

  • @raymondandmelaniebolton3775
    @raymondandmelaniebolton3775 7 місяців тому +12

    So beautiful, can stop listening ...

  • @martinfitzgerald1605
    @martinfitzgerald1605 4 роки тому +34

    Just beautiful, adore Clannad but especially this track. Can't get enough of it🎤🎻🥁

  • @ianpowell1849
    @ianpowell1849 11 місяців тому +4

    Many deployments to Ireland came back in one piece but this music brings a chill to me 😓

  • @royhampton776
    @royhampton776 2 роки тому +4

    Maybe the most emotional piece of music ever wrote for a number of reasons. Love will overcome..

  • @blujazz10000
    @blujazz10000 2 роки тому +4

    This piece has haunted me for years. Truly ethereal.
    The first time I heard it in the mid-nineties I did not rest until I had learned the artist and bought the CD.
    Clannad - Anam
    Much love from Pittsburgh,
    Thomas

  • @ianrobinson8974
    @ianrobinson8974 3 роки тому +2

    4/12/2121 Whilst I knew of you music from years past I have just dug a little deeper! YOU ARE BLESSED. Thank you for the beautiful lyrics, music and voice intenotions. Thank God for you parential influences. Too late for me, I am sorry to say. Blessings and best wishes from Australia.

  • @paulcrisp9861
    @paulcrisp9861 3 роки тому +102

    Beautifully haunting, so poignant and so powerful to this very day in July 2021. Time itself stands still everytime I hear this incredible sound. Way ahead of its time and very emotional. 🌏❤🙏🇬🇧

  • @nickello00
    @nickello00 Рік тому +5

    I watvched Harry's Game in the 80's and I cant watch it again. But ther music I listen to all the time.

  • @raygreen5926
    @raygreen5926 2 роки тому +18

    For me the song symbolizes the conflict in Northern Ireland and the cancer of hatred that stalked the red-brick streets of Belfast and the hedgerows of south Armagh and the vanishing of Robert Nairac and the starvation of Bobby Sands 🇮🇪☘🇬🇧

    • @MariePower-g6s
      @MariePower-g6s Місяць тому +1

      Never again :the heartbreak experienced by so many on all sides

  • @ChetJames-b9r
    @ChetJames-b9r Рік тому +4

    Love Clannad, love this spiritual piece of genius..makes my mind right...

  • @stephentaege6255
    @stephentaege6255 Рік тому +6

    Blimmey the most haunting yet beautiful song ever Clannad for ever ✌️✌️🍀🍀🕯️🕯️👍👍 cheers stevo 🍀🍀

  • @emilyrobinson3452
    @emilyrobinson3452 3 роки тому +5

    I watched the film and was in tears at the conclusion! Bad men will always win I fear! Song is so beautiful!

  • @carloscea
    @carloscea 4 роки тому +7

    This was the opening song of the radio programme "Diálogos 3", broadcast during the 1990s and 2000s by Radio 3 in Spain. This song haunted me the first time I listened to it and it still does. Sheer beauty.

  • @ronhilborn9410
    @ronhilborn9410 3 роки тому +7

    Not sure how there are any negative opinions regarding this song. One of the most beautiful things I have ever heard

  • @a1960g
    @a1960g 4 роки тому +8

    Probably the most angelic voice I've ever heard. You guys are absolutely fantastic. I hear this and I can imagine myself back in the theater when I first heard this beautiful music.

  • @bridgetbonds5169
    @bridgetbonds5169 3 роки тому +5

    This is one of most beautiful songs ever since

  • @sarapiper385
    @sarapiper385 3 роки тому +9

    After all these years finding this song on UA-cam he still sends a shiver down my spine

  • @dana1156
    @dana1156 3 роки тому +2

    I got to meet this family with a friend a few years ago. I felt so welcome in their home. Pure talent. X

  • @kenmullins12
    @kenmullins12 2 роки тому +4

    Haunting beautiful masterpiece. Sung magnificently in the true Irish tongue of Gallic. Superb.

  • @AHC63
    @AHC63 9 днів тому +1

    So beautiful.

  • @robertcotgrave5920
    @robertcotgrave5920 4 роки тому +8

    Haunting yet such a beautiful piece of music. Clannad are a fine band.