Talk:List of Irish ballads

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Does anyone know if "Captain Kelly's Kitchen" off the Dropkick Murphys new album, is an Irish song? It says traditional in the liner notes but I'm not sure.

Yes it is a traditional song.

Captain Kelly's Kitchen is better known as 'Courting in the Kitchen'. --Seamasmac (talk) 16:46, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, I'm a Wiki-noobie, so this may be out of place but also seems like a decent relative point to start... There is a song titled "Henry Martin", I understand to be a trad-Scot tune that may have actually been the story that sparked the story of Robin Hood. One example of this tune is Figgy Duff's recording, which I have added note of from the results of Wiki-searching "Henry Martin". As said, so far as I know this is a Scot tune (therefor NOT an Irish ballad), but I'm trying to get something started on the tune here -- if someone reads this and can pick up the ball on it.

[edit] Section Suggestion

I'm keen to rearrange the songs below into more subcategories such as:

Love Songs - infidelity - broken token / love token - night visiting songs

Songs of Work

Songs of Emmigration

Songs of Sport

Does anybody have any other suggestions or objections? I'll give it a couple of days for replies.--Seamasmac (talk) 16:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)