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Music Appreciation

The Polack MSgt

(13,186 posts) Fri Apr 24, 2020, 09:47 PM Apr 2020

What is it with Irishmen and R&B?

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What is it with Irishmen and R&B? (Original Post) The Polack MSgt Apr 2020 OP

Centuries of deprivation at the hands of the English? ZZenith Apr 2020 #1

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Polack MSgt Apr 2020 #3

Slainte! ZZenith Apr 2020 #5

Ooh yeaah Ohiogal Apr 2020 #2

When the English took away their language KT2000 Apr 2020 #4

Say it once, say it proud... cemaphonic Apr 2020 #6

ZZenith

(4,119 posts)

1. Centuries of deprivation at the hands of the English?

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Apr 24, 2020, 09:50 PM

Apr 2020

The Polack MSgt

(13,186 posts)

3. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Reply to ZZenith (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 24, 2020, 09:58 PM

Apr 2020

ZZenith

(4,119 posts)

5. Slainte!

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 24, 2020, 11:22 PM

Apr 2020

Ohiogal

(31,974 posts)

2. Ooh yeaah

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Apr 24, 2020, 09:50 PM

Apr 2020

I think I put this up here a couple weeks ago

Simply Red is Simply Divine!

Who wants to slow dance with me?

KT2000

(20,572 posts)

4. When the English took away their language

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Apr 24, 2020, 10:45 PM

Apr 2020

they moved into an oral tradition tempered by pain they felt at being continually hammered by the English.
Who else could write a beautiful love song about lovers' bodies decaying in the grass.

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)

6. Say it once, say it proud...

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Sat Apr 25, 2020, 05:37 AM

Apr 2020

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