Nostalgia

Reflections on times past is common territory for balladeers. It’s no wonder we have so many songs under this theme.

A Sigh for Knockmany (Tyrone)

A vision (Cork)

Abbeyshrule (Longford)

Among the Wicklow hills (Wicklow)

An Irish Lullaby (Kerry)

An old man’s wish (Laois)

Apple Blossom County (Armagh)

Arranmore, loved Arranmore (Donegal)

Back home in County Antrim (Antrim)

Back to Castleblaney (Monaghan)

Banagher, the town I left behind (Offaly)

Banks of the Moorlough Shore (Tyrone)

Bantry Bay (Cork)

Beautiful city (Cork)

Beautiful Eireann (Tipperary)

Belfast (Antrim)

Belfast mill (Antrim)

Ben Bulben of Sligo (Sligo)

Blue hills of Antrim (Antrim)

Blue Hills of Breffni (Cavan)

Brosna Town (Kerry)

By Barrows Banks (Laois)

Calm Avonree (Kilkenny)

Carlow, Carlow (Carlow)

Castle Hyde (Cork)

Castletown (Laois)

Chimes of Cove are pealing (Cork)

Cottage by the Lee (Cork)

Craanmore (Carlow)

Dear Dundalk (Louth)

Dear Old Elphin (Roscommon)

Doonaree (Galway)

Dublin in my tears (Dublin)

Dublin in the rare old times (Dublin)

Dublin Town in 1962 (Dublin)

Dublin's Inner City (Dublin)

Fair County Roscommon (Roscommon)

Falling o' the rain (Kilkenny)

Falls of Doonass (Clare)

Farewell to Dublin (Dublin)

Farewell to Mayo (Mayo)

Four country roads (Galway)

Galway Bay (Galway)

Gougane Barra (Cork)

Green and red of Mayo (Mayo)

Green glens of Antrim (Antrim)

Hills of Donegal 2 (Donegal)

Hills of South Armagh (Armagh)

Home to Aherlow (Tipperary)

Hometown in County Mayo (Mayo)

I love the Lee (Cork)

I'll go back to Glenamaddy (Galway)

In Derry vale (Derry)

Kerry long ago (Kerry)

Killarney and you (Kerry)

Land of the O’Connor (Roscommon)

Lawns of Curraghmore (Waterford)

Limerick, you’re a lady (Limerick)

Lismore (Waterford)

Little town in the old County Down (Down)

Lovely Armagh (Armagh)

Lovely Derry on the banks of the Foyle (Derry)

Lovely Laois (Laois)

Lovely Leitrim (Leitrim)

Mayo (Mayo)

Memories of Westmeath (Westmeath)

Moon behind the hill (Kilkenny)

Mount Massey, the flower of Macroom (Cork)

Mountains of Cooley (Louth)

My Carlow home (Carlow)

My County of Tyrone (Tyrone)

My Dublin Bay (Dublin)

My home in sweet Lyreacrompane (Kerry)

My Lagan softly flowing (Antrim)

My native Monaghan (Monaghan)

My own dear Galway Bay (Galway)

Northside of Belfast (Antrim)

Offaly (Offaly)

Old hometown Kenmare (Kerry)

Old rustic bridge by the mill (Cork)

Red, yellow and green (Carlow)

Roscommon of my dreams (Roscommon)

Stone Mason's Farewell (Down)

Sweet Castleisland (Kerry)

Sweet lovely vale of Adare (Limerick)

Sweet Tyrone (Tyrone)

Sweet Youghal Bay (Cork)

Three pubs in Bahola (Mayo)

Tipperary on my mind (Tipperary)

Town of Dundalk (Louth)

Tubbercurry (Sligo)

Tumble down shack in Athlone (Westmeath)

Waterford (Waterford)

Wee County of Louth (Louth)

West coast of Clare (Clare)

Where the River Shannon flows (Limerick)