The Chieftains are a Grammy winning Irish musical group founded in 1962 (Du… Read Full Bio ↴The Chieftains are a Grammy winning Irish musical group founded in 1962 (Dublin, Ireland), known for performing and popularizing Irish traditional music.
The band has recorded many albums of instrumental Irish folk music, as well as multiple collaborations with popular musicians of many genres, including Country music, Galician traditional music, Cape Breton and Newfoundland music, and rock and roll. They have performed with Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Roger Daltrey, Elvis Costello, Tom Jones, Sinรฉad O'Connor, James Galway, Jackson Browne, Nancy Griffith and numerous Country-western artists. In 1975, the group won praise for their playing of "Women of Ireland" for Stanley Kubrick's movie Barry Lyndon.
They have won six Grammy Awards and have been nominated eighteen times. In 2002 they were given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the UK's BBC Radio 2. The front covers of the first four albums were designed by Edward Delaney.
Paddy Moloney is the band's leader, and composes or arranges most of the band's music. While the band's members changed numerous times in the band's early history, the membership solidified in 1979 when Matt Molloy replaced Michael Tubridy.
From then until 2002, members included:
Paddy Moloney (uilleann pipes, tin whistle, button accordion, bodhrรกn)
Matt Molloy (flute, tin whistle)
Kevin Conneff (bodhrรกn, vocals)
Seรกn Keane (fiddle, tin whistle)
Martin Fay (fiddle, bones) (born 1938; died 14 November 2012)
Derek Bell (Irish harp, keyboard instruments, oboe) (born 21 October 1935; died 17 October 2002)
In 2002, Fay retired from active membership. In the same year, Bell died due to complications following a minor operation. Fay died on 14 November 2012.
The band has recorded many albums of instrumental Irish folk music, as well as multiple collaborations with popular musicians of many genres, including Country music, Galician traditional music, Cape Breton and Newfoundland music, and rock and roll. They have performed with Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Roger Daltrey, Elvis Costello, Tom Jones, Sinรฉad O'Connor, James Galway, Jackson Browne, Nancy Griffith and numerous Country-western artists. In 1975, the group won praise for their playing of "Women of Ireland" for Stanley Kubrick's movie Barry Lyndon.
They have won six Grammy Awards and have been nominated eighteen times. In 2002 they were given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the UK's BBC Radio 2. The front covers of the first four albums were designed by Edward Delaney.
Paddy Moloney is the band's leader, and composes or arranges most of the band's music. While the band's members changed numerous times in the band's early history, the membership solidified in 1979 when Matt Molloy replaced Michael Tubridy.
From then until 2002, members included:
Paddy Moloney (uilleann pipes, tin whistle, button accordion, bodhrรกn)
Matt Molloy (flute, tin whistle)
Kevin Conneff (bodhrรกn, vocals)
Seรกn Keane (fiddle, tin whistle)
Martin Fay (fiddle, bones) (born 1938; died 14 November 2012)
Derek Bell (Irish harp, keyboard instruments, oboe) (born 21 October 1935; died 17 October 2002)
In 2002, Fay retired from active membership. In the same year, Bell died due to complications following a minor operation. Fay died on 14 November 2012.
March
The Chieftains Lyrics
We are the San Patricios
A brave and gallant band
There'll be no white flag flying
Within this green command
We are the San Patricios
We have but one demand
To see the Yankees safely home
Across the Rio Grande
But when at Churubusco
We made our final stand
No court of justice did we have
In the land of Uncle Sam
As traitors and deserters all
We would be shot or hanged
Far from the green, green shamrock shore
Across the Rio Grande
We've disappeared from history
Like footprints in the sand
But our song is in the tumbleweed
And our blood is in this land
But, if in the desert moonlight
You see a ghostly band
We're the men who died for freedom
Across the Rio Grande
We are the San Patricios
A brave and gallant band
A brave and gallant band
There'll be no white flag flying
Within this green command
We are the San Patricios
We have but one demand
To see the Yankees safely home
Across the Rio Grande
But when at Churubusco
No court of justice did we have
In the land of Uncle Sam
As traitors and deserters all
We would be shot or hanged
Far from the green, green shamrock shore
Across the Rio Grande
We've disappeared from history
Like footprints in the sand
But our song is in the tumbleweed
And our blood is in this land
But, if in the desert moonlight
You see a ghostly band
We're the men who died for freedom
Across the Rio Grande
We are the San Patricios
A brave and gallant band
Lyrics ยฉ BMG Rights Management, Peermusic Publishing
Written by: BRENDAN GRAHAM, PADDY MOLONEY
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@natedorney7032
My stepmother who passed away in may of last year was a Sullivan... She was descended of the famous American Civil War photographer, Timothy O'Sullivan. I play this in her sainted memory. Golden wings to you, mum!!!
@dtcdtc8328
Nice ! Too cool . Thanks for sharing
@cycleSCUBA
Sadly now Paddy Moloney has passed. God bless the souls of your mum and Paddy.
@robertdillon5266
God bless you and all the great sullivans in America, when my beloved father died ten years ago, our friends Jimmy and Oliver sulliavan, buried him,they Bury,all the ould stock in the aichieant parish of lorrha in North tipperary,
If you guys are ever in Ireland, call in and say hello
@teresadownes2422
My last name came from Anglo saxon
But I am an Irish woman thick and through
@kevinstachovak8842
@@teresadownes2422 Gaels forever! I am of German-Polish stock, but life is strange. I've always felt a connection to Eire and Gaelige was one of the first languages I ever learned
@danleo3133
All love and respect from Mexico to Irish brothers and sisters and this beautiful music
@tomasofaolain3117
Viva poncho villa from Ireland
@Thaumazo83
El batallรณn de San Patricio
@gavinclark6891
Love it, Gtsy