The Irish Rover

The Irish Rover is an Irish folk song that tells of a probably fictitious sailing ship called the Irish Rover, the stings of Cork bound for New York in the lake. Ship and crew have on the way to deal with many adversities, finally suffers the Irish Rover shipwreck and thus achieved its goal not their journey. The song has been interpreted by many folk musicians, using some changes have been made ​​to the lyrics.

The origins of the song are in the dark, ' Walton Songs, Book 5: The Irish Rover, A Ballad Miscellany (1966 ) ' writes it to the little-known songwriter JM Crofts.

The most famous photograph was taken of the groups The Dubliners and The Pogues, which ranked number 8 in the UK Singles Chart and # 1 made ​​it into the Irish Singles Chart in 1987.

Effect story

• The Irish Rover is one of the most popular Scottish Dances, which is danced to the music of the song.
• Slugger O'Toole - a character of the song serves as the namesake for one of the largest websites in Northern Ireland politics.
• In issue 26 of the comic book series Preacher Cassidy is counting on his drinking buddies from New York, whose names are listed all spring from the song.

Versions

The Flensburg band Santiano took 2012 a version of the song for her album Far Side of the World on.