The_Banker
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Gimme a break! Like a lot of people with nothing better to do than hang out in pubs, the Dubliners/ Drew started out singing in pubs and finished up singing in pubs. No great achievement there. Their UK hits - Seven Drunken Nights / Paddy works on the railway - were the worst sort of stage Irish bogus paddywhackery. Nothing to be proud of there. They really were nothing more than a sort of Irish version of Chas & Dave. Inoffensive and inconsequential.A great musician, a great Dub and a great Irish man who was at the fore front of the Irish folk revival in the 60s.
He proved that you did not have to sing about republicanism or the IRA to make Irish music great.
Gimme a break! Like a lot of people with nothing better to do than hang out in pubs, the Dubliners/ Drew started out singing in pubs and finished up singing in pubs. No great achievement there.
Gimme a break! Like a lot of people with nothing better to do than hang out in pubs, the Dubliners/ Drew started out singing in pubs and finished up singing in pubs. No great achievement there.
Gimme a break! Like a lot of people with nothing better to do than hang out in pubs, the Dubliners/ Drew started out singing in pubs and finished up singing in pubs. No great achievement there. Their UK hits - Seven Drunken Nights / Paddy works on the railway - were the worst sort of stage Irish bogus paddywhackery. Nothing to be proud of there. They really were nothing more than a sort of Irish version of Chas & Dave. Inoffensive and inconsequential.
Gimme a break! Like a lot of people with nothing better to do than hang out in pubs, the Dubliners/ Drew started out singing in pubs and finished up singing in pubs. No great achievement there. Their UK hits - Seven Drunken Nights / Paddy works on the railway - were the worst sort of stage Irish bogus paddywhackery. Nothing to be proud of there. They really were nothing more than a sort of Irish version of Chas & Dave. Inoffensive and inconsequential.
A great musician, a great Dub and a great Irish man who was at the fore front of the Irish folk revival in the 60s. He proved that you did not have to sing about republicanism or the IRA to make Irish music great.
7 drunken nights was a classic.
"The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" released early this year as a tribute to the man (while a poor song) was brilliant because the whos who of Irish music paid tribute to the man and therefore he knew that he had been recognised by his peers.
Now all that is left is for the Dublin City Council to enact the last line of the song and "build a statue of Ronnie Drew holding the hand of a girl in a black velvet band" in St Stephens Green.
As a Cork person it is not often that I would call a Dub a "A True Legend" but in this case it is perfectly apt.
how is it hypocritical????this respect the dead stuff is rubbish and often hypocritical.
this respect the dead stuff is rubbish and often hypocritical.
how is it hypocritical????
Hypocritical for those who thought he was rubbish when alive to proclaim him great when dead. It's not just him its in general.
I thought he was good but he was no Luke Kelly, also he was born in Wicklow
RIP Ronnie you deserve the rest.
Wasn't he born around Dun Laoghaire / Monkstown...
Good obituary for him in today's Daily Telegraph; quite a tribute given that the newspaper tends to be a tad right-wing.
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