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1. Denis Allen honoured an Irish city in song by calling it a "lady". Which city?
2. Bing Crosby's recording of this song about the sun going down on an Irish bay is known throughout the world. Which bay?
3. Phil Coulter's song about his home town is called "The Town I Loved So Well". Which town?
4. "She was lovely and fair as the rose of the summer
Yet, 'twas not her beauty alone that won me,
Oh no! 'Twas the the truth in her eye ever dawning
That made me love Mary, the Rose of _______."
An international festival has been created around this song. Can you name the town?
5. In the '60s, Joe Dolan sang about a bachelor from a midland county - "...and that's why I'm a bachelor and I don't intend to wed!".
What county was the bachelor in the song from?
6. Pete St. John probably didn't realise how well-known his song about "the fields" around a County Galway town would become when he wrote it. Which town?
7. "Raised on songs and stories, heroes of renown
The passing tales and glories that once was ______ town
The hallowed halls and houses, the haunting childrens rhymes
That once was ______ City in the rare ould times"
Actor Noel Purcell talked his way through a song called "The Rare Ould Times" which took listeners on a tour of his native town. Which one?
8. "How sweet is to roam by the sunny Suir stream
And hear the doves coo 'neath the morning sunbeam;
Where the thrush and the robin their sweet notes entwine
On the banks of the Suir that flows down by ______."
A beautiful melody with melancholy lyrics about a village in County Kilkenny. Which one?
9. "There's a glen in old Tir Conaill
There's a wee house in the glen
Where dwelt an Irish colleen
Who charmed the hearts of men;
She was winsome, hale and hearty
Shy and graceful as the fawn,
Neighbors loved the widow's daughter
Happy, laughing Noreen Bawn."
In what county did Noreen live?
10. ...and finally, which mountains "sweep down to the sea" in the Percy French song?
"...at least when I asked them that's what I was told
So I just took a hand at this diggin' for gold;
But for all that I found there I might as well be
Where the Mountains of ______ sweep down to the sea."
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