Important notice-The site was no longer indexed by search engines for me having
duplicate content-example, most of The Dubliners songs were already in the other sections from A-Z , but I thought it would
be more beneficial to have seperate sections for The Dubliners, The Wolfe Tones etc, as a result I had to delate all the other
sub domains, when a site gets de-indexed nobody can find it, it looks like I got punished for being helpful, anyway all the
songs are still here between A-Z. The site went from geting 6,000 visits a day to around 2,000, hopefully the site will get
back to where it was in the rankings.
When you do a search for ''The Dubliners Lyrics And Chords'' or The Wolfe
Tones Lyrics And Chords'' there were no results for my site, strange considering the site had more Dubliners and Wolfe Tones
songs rhan any other sites.
That's me on the left , with Eugene.
As I said on the homepage the only reason the site is here is to keep the tradition alive and kicking ,since
I started back in March 2006 I have received hundreds of requests through email and the guestbook for songs , most of which
I have provided and are on the site , the others I have emailed on to the people who requested them.
This is a LIVE site , probably the only one of it's kind to except requests and for the webmaster to try
work out the chords for visitors.
Favorite band/singer =The Wolfe Tones,The Pogues,Johnny McEvoy.Dubliners , Christy Moore
Best moment in time=Playing guitar for Shane MacGowan [what a night]
Favorite songs=For Ireland I'll not tell her name,Broad Majestic Shannon,Lullaby Of London[Pogues] Night
Visiting Song[Dubliners] The Old Bog Road[Johnny McEvoy]
Favorite pass time=Playing music with the lads in the pub.
Updating web site=25 hours a week [once you start something like this it's hard to stop]
What do I play ? mostly guitar, a bit of banjo and tin whistle.
Where am I from ? North Co. Dublin Ireland
Collecting Irish songs and promoting them is a passion with me
I wrote the songs called Thomas Ashe , ,also the song called First Tuesday , both are on the site
The site receives on average 5000 visits a day.
This site has helped thousands of guitar players of Irish songs, I know this because of the amount of emails
I receive
The design of the site evolved through trial and error , I keep the layout simple and easy to navagate ,
it's like a book , you go from one page to the next , and so on, there is no need to keep clicking the back button .This is
a user frendly site, avoid sites with pop ups ,as they are bad for your computer
Gerry O'Glacain from The Irish Brigade and Martin Dardis
January 2008- I re-designed the whole site, it was taken too long with dial up Internet connections to open
the pages, With the new system there is scope for thousands of new songs.
Why Don't Irish Radio Stations Play Our Songs ?
Well that question has puzzled me for years, I live in Dublin and if you were to hear even one of the songs
I've on the site in a month you be lucky. There are radio stations for every brand of music here in Ireland except Irish.
I'm involved in several Irish music discussion boards on the net and if for example The Wolfe Tones get
one of their songs on radio it's a big deal with the board members at The Wolfe Tones site, they want to know what radio station
played the song, what D.J what time etc.
It should not be like this, our music has been handed down through the generations at sessions, open houses,
crossroads dances and so on.
Things have moved on, I can only speak about Irish t.v and radio here, I've been told in Canada Irish music
gets hugh airtime.
If it was left to the big Irish stations then our songs and stories would have died a death years ago because
all they play is non stop hip-hop, rap, and nonsencical pop music with no social value.
Folk songs tell a story, you can learn a lot from an old ballad, you will get an insight into the social
history of your country by listening to it's folk/ballad songs. I'm sure most of you have been to YouTube to watch the songs,
look how many hits the songs get. There are some old folk tunes there that have gotten a few hundred thousand hits. It's
sad when we have to go on the internet to listen to our own songs. Shame on the radio stations in Ireland that won't play
Irish songs.
The site passed the one million visitors January 2008, not bad for a one man outfit who just loves Irish
songs. I never though it would grow so big, I have received so much encouragement from guitar players and well known singers
and songwriters.
A big thank you to all who made a contribution through Paypal for the upkeep of the site, it's really very
kind of you all.
If you have a folk/Irish/music site and want to exchange links give me a shout.
