I laghi del Connemara, di Michel Sardou è una canzone molto popolare in Francia e Belgio. Viene spesso cantato alla fine delle feste quando tutti sono ubriachi. Come se potessi andare in qualsiasi bar in Francia e iniziare a cantare "Terra bruciata… " Vi garantisco che inizierete a cantare insieme, tutti conoscono i testi. Dato che la canzone parla dell’Irlanda, mi chiedevo: questa canzone è almeno un po’ famosa in Irlanda?
Modifica: a quanto pare ormai è famosa, ma mettetela nei vostri bar e nelle vostre feste, è una bella canzone!
Do you Irish people know this song
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>is this song at least a bit famous in Ireland
not really no
We learned about it in French class over 30 years ago, as being a famous song about Ireland in France.
In Ireland, pretty much no-one has ever heard of it though.
Nope
I have heard this song, various French friends have played this to me and explained how popular it was. One friend described how his parents would listen to it over and over on long car journeys. It is not well known in Ireland though.
Huge in Belgium, sort of like their Fields of Athenry
I was at a wedding in France and they belted this out. Great tune!
I know it because I speak French and know a lot of French singers. But no, I don’t think anyone would know it that isn’t into French music and culture
Only heard about it a year or two ago. Asked a few friends and family, and none of them had heard of it, so I assume many Irish people haven’t heard of it, which is a pity because it’s a fun old tune.
I first heard this song at a house party when on Erasmus in France and everyone French seemed really surprised that I had never heard of it before so no it’s definitely not well known in Ireland.
I only know it from reading a couple of posts here about it
I know it as I’m married to a French woman. My understanding is that the song was originally about Loch Ness in Scotland, hence the mention of the monster. He also makes mention of Limerick and it’s cathedral (if memory serves, I haven’t heard the song in a while), which demonstrates a rather shaky understanding of Irish geography. Daycent tune nevertheless.
Fianna Fail used it as an election song in 1981/82 if I recall correctly. They used the words “sinne, sinne, sinne Fianna Fail. Haughey was leader at the time so the words went “Charlie avait dit, je suis Catholique,
Ah, the land of Peters.
This aint a song from irish culture its a song from French culture so that should tell ya
We’d be more familiar with the works of Jacques Brel thanks in part to Scott Walker & David Bowie.
I’ve heard about it on the internet but it is not a well known song in Irish pop culture at all
I have only heard this song in France.
It’s often the final song of an event and signals that it’s time to go home
It’s the Take Me Home (Country Roads) of France but it’s largely totally unknown here! Which is a pity really.
I’ve only heard of it on reddit, never in real life.
It appears on and is talked about a bit on an Irish sporting podcast called The Second Captains.
Do the French know the Green Fields of France? Probably not.
Only heard this song when I was studying in Belgium (15 years or so ago) on nights out and thought initially it was being played on request because there was a big bunch of us Irish out. I’ve never come across it in Ireland or heard anyone talking about it since.
It absolutely slaps.
However I’m fairly certain he’d never actually been to Connemara when he was writing the song.
The song has brought many French to Connemara, we used to have a b & b and they would say oh we are here for the lakes of Connemara and start singing
Heard this song at a wedding in noirmoutier in France. Between and Irish person and a French person. It was back at the house after the wedding, I was fairly surprised to hear a bunch of older French people singing a song in French about connemara. They were even more surprised I never heard of it !
“Over there in Connemara, they do not accept peace from the Welsh nor from the kings of England.”
Pretty hardcore
I did indeed. I’ve a lot of French mates and I played this for one. She was like sacre bleuu (not really but lol) it’s only for the last sing song of the night. Absolutely nobody has really ever heard it much, not common at all.
Great song
Nope