Kingston Coffee House “St. Patrick’s Day” Replay
By Mike Stevenson | [email protected]
“Green beer” music refers to the stereotypical, high-energy, and often Americanized pub songs played during St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. It is closely associated with party atmospheres, the consumption of green-dyed beer, and sometimes, the reduction of Irish culture to cliches
There’ll be none of that on my show tonight.
OPEN
– “Rocky Road to Dublin” (trad) from the film Sinners, 2025
Partings, Laments, Rolling Along
– Dolores Keane “Til We Meet Again” Solid Ground 1993
– Paul Geremia “I Just Roll Along” I Really Don’t Mind Livin’ 1982
– Hosier ” The Parting Glass” (trad) Live From The Late Late Show 2020
– Solas “Lament for Frankie” (S Egan) 1996
Dolores Keane 1953 – 2026
Sean-nós (Irish for “old style”)
– Dervish “Peata Beag” Live at Palma, 1997
– Solas “Ni Na La” 1996
– Kila “On Taobh Tuathail Amach”, 1997
– Liam O’ Maonlai “Sadhbh Ní Bhruinnealla” 2012
– Derek Bell “Carolan’s Variations On Cock Up Your Beaver” Carolan’s Favourite. 1979 ***
Green Beer R&B
– Jackie Wilson “Danny Boy”
– Van Morrison & the Chieftains “Marie’s Wedding” Irish Heartbeat, 1988
– Ye Vagabonds “The Flood” All Tied Together 2026
– Ron Kavana “Waxin’ the Gaza” Alien Alert, 1999
– The Waterboys “Fisherman’s Blues” 1988
Haunted by the Ghost
– Cherish the Ladies “My Own Native Land” One and All, 1992
– Christy Moore “Missing You” (J McCarthy) 1989 Voyage, 11989
– Sinead O’Connor & Shane MacGowan “Haunted” single, 1995
– Lisa O’Neil “The Lass of Aughrim” Heard a Long Song Gone 2018
– Makem & Clancy “Ar Eireinn Ni Neosainn Ce Hi” Concert, 1977
– Sean O’ Riada selections from Playboy of the Western World
Lisa O’Neil
– Kate Bush “Mna Na Eireann” (S O’Riada) Common Ground: Voices of Modern Irish Music, 1995
– Van Morrison “St. Dominic’s Preview” Sult – Spirit Of The Music, 1996
There Goes That Dream
– Kerry Condon Barry Keoughan from the film The Banshees of Inishirin, 2022
– Teada (with John C Reilly & Seamus Begley) “Eileen Og” As the Day Brightens , 2002
Meitheal (1995) Seamus Begley with Stephen Cooney
– “Máirín De Barra”
– “Bruach Na Carraige Báine”
– “Beir Me Dhúthracht”
Man of the land: As well as being a renowned musician, Seamus Begley was a farmer and silage maker; here he is checking the quality of the baling hay near Ventry, Co Kerry in 2004. Photo: Don MacMonagle
– Lisa O’Neil “Rock the Machine” Heard a Long Gone Song, 2018
– Van Morrison & the Chieftains “Cerrifurgus” (trad*) Irish Heartbeat, 1988 **
– Lankum “What Will We Do When We Have No Money” (trad) Between the Earth and Sky. 2017
– Steve Earle & Sharon Shannon “The Galway Girl” (S Earle)
– Black 47 “Living in America (aka “The Foggy Dew” / “Funky Ceili” (Kirwan) Fire of Freedom 1993
– The Waterboys “When Will I Be Married? (trad) Fisherman’s Blues 1988
– The Pogues “Dirty Ol Town (E McColl) Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
– The Bothy Band “Butterfly” The First Album, 1975
‘The embarrassment Irish people had about their music is long gone’ – Lankum’s Radie Peat
– Mary Black, Emmylou Harris & Dolores Keane “Sonny” (R Hynes) The Transatlantic Sessions
– Luka Bloom “Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time” Riverside , 1990
– Lunasa “Morning Nightcap” The Merry Sisters Of Fate, 2001
– Karan Casey “The King’s Shilling” The Wind Begins to Sing, 2001
– Dolores Keane with John Faulkner “Galway Bay” Sail Óg Rua, 1983
NOTES
*** Cock Up Your Beaver is a song and poem by Robert Burns, written in 1792. It is written in Scottish dialect and the beaver refers to a gentleman’s hat in an era when all high quality men’s hats were made of felted beaver fur. A piece entitled Carolan’s Variations on the Scottish Air “Cock Up Your Beaver” is composition no. 204 in the oeuvre of Turlough O’Carolan
** Dominic Behan published the modern version of “Cerrifurgus” in 1965, often referring to it initially as “The Kerry Boatman”. The melody is derived from an 18th-century Munster Irish song, “Do Bhí Bean Uasal” (“There Was a Noblewoman”), attributed to poet Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna.
CONCERT DATES
- Teada plays Blackstone River Theater on Sunday March 22
- Dervish plays Jane Pickens Theater, Newport on Sunday March 22
PASSINGS
– Paul Geremia obituary from the Providence Journal
– Jane Falvey obituary from the Providence Journal
Sheri Wills (1963-2025) was a beloved professor and administrator at both University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island School of Design. Professor Wills inspired students to explore fearlessly and colleagues to share generously. In this spirit, please join us in celebrating her life with a gift in her honor.