The Dubliners - The Town I Loved So Well (Harstad Norway_1980)

In 1980 Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Barney McKenna & John Sheahan known collectively as The Dubliners preformed at Irish Festivals in Harstad Norway.
The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962. The band started off as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, they subsequently renamed themselves as The Dubliners. The group line-up saw many changes over their fifty-year career. Founding members were Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ciarán Bourke and Barney McKenna

[@kathrynlandry1211]

I love Luke Kelly 💚☘️

[@kathrynlandry-ir8kh]

Another beautiful song sung by the best. I cry because I never heard him live☘️☘️☘️☘️💚💚💚💚

[@daisypeters3216]

His birthday is November 17th!! We will not forget him!!! Luke is most loved!!!

[@thewhislingrover]

My name is also Luke but this was the one that really mattered. My the Lord greet you as a friend.you gave me my love for all things Irish.Slainte mah brother, Erin go bragh

[@Joe-ms4kk]

The town i loved so well song reminds me of my hometown kilkenny

[@pieterisp]

I live thousands of miles from Derry but Luke's indefatigable voice takes me back to the time when passions, like bullets stormed through the air and few realized that the town they had loved so well would be no more.

[@michaeltoner3366]

Luke Kelly, native Dubliner, is more "Derry" than most of us, when he sings this-- straight from the soul! Lord rest ye, Luke! There will never be another.

[@Fortuna_Magica]

A memory of how music used to and should be. this is something the next generation needs to learn excists, and listen to..

[@cahillgreg]

Perhaps you might learn to spell before dispensing advice Mick

[@abrhamgebeyehu933]

In my memory I will always see
the town that I have loved so well
where our school played ball by the gasyard wall
and we laughed through the smoke and the smell.
Going home in the rain running up the dark lane
past the jail and down behind the fountain
Those were happy days in so many many ways
in the town I have loved so well.
In the early morning the shirt-factory horn
called women from Craigeen the Moor and the Bog
while the man on the dole played the mother's role
fed the children and then trained the dogs.
And when times got rough there was just about enough
but they saw it through without complaining
for deep inside was a burning pride
for the town I loved so well.
There was music there in the Derry air
like a language that we could all understand
I remember the day when I earned my first pay
as I played in the small pick-up band.
There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth
I was sad to leave it all behind me
for I'd learned 'bout life and I've found a wife
in the town I loved so well.
But when I returned how my eyes have burned
to see how a town could be brought to its knees
by the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars
and the gas that hangs on to every breeze.
Now the army's installed by that old gasyard wall
and the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher
with their tanks and their guns, oh my god what have they done
to the town I loved so well.
Now the music's gone but I still carry on
for their spirit's been bruised never broken
they will not forget for their hearts are aset
on tomorrow and peace once again.
For what's done is done and what's won is won
and what's lost is lost and gone forever
I can only pray for a bright brand new day
in the town I loved so well.

[@philruane5575]

You beauty. Thanks a million

[@squonk62]

so so beautiful

[@coldunquietgrave]

Such a recognized voice! powerful !

[@dommen4539]

Unforgettable. Always in the heart.

[@philruane5575]

Lukes Dublin voice xxxxxx

[@thebeast2746]

Beautiful from circular road DerryCity but now living on Isle of Man 🇮🇲.

[@josephhickey7829]

The town i loved so well reminds of kilkenny

[@birgitconrad1619]

Luke, Godfather of baladies- greetings to you, God bless you and R.i.P.

[@hruaiatlau5936]

This song is very serious,every time i listen to it,i feel deep mood.ok, i love this song.

[@foggydew3614]

Unique....a legend

[@shaunkelly7046]

Wot a man wish I culd off seen you in the living best folk singer

[@shimonrubin6354]

La meilleure interprétation de ce chant par Luke Kelly. Remember him 31/01/84. RIP Luke Kelly.

[@luigipelagi7289]

Un grande interprete

[@תמרהילמן]

הפנים הכי יפות של זמרי אירלנד נוסקים אל על..אשרי העם שאלה הם המייצגים אותו !!!

[@konstantineguruli]

Luke ♥

[@josephhickey7382]

this song reminds me of my hometown kilkenny

[@Martha-ho7jw]

Ah, Luke Kelly.....

[@johnnystovner2495]

Tony Cal you know what month it was?

[@olelukje3928]

Johnny Stovner it was in June,just a few days before he collapsed on stage in Cork, but yet it’s a great performance

[@degaleriespierenburg4539]

Now everything is fake