HEADSTONE SONGS and poems
In May, 2024, as I was writing a blog post about the lyrics of the Mountain Dew song that I spotted on a headstone in Ballinure Cemetery in Co. Limerick, I got to thinking about the very many songs that I have seen on memorial headstones in graveyards, cemeteries and elsewhere.
As if I hadn’t enough things to do already, I decided to create this page listing the songs and poems.
In 1983, I did say that my choice was from Pink Floyd – strange that I can remember that but not any possible alternatives since.
As if I hadn’t enough things to do already, I decided to create this page listing the songs and poems.
In 1983, I did say that my choice was from Pink Floyd – strange that I can remember that but not any possible alternatives since.
THE SONGS
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man – Eva Gardner / Julie London – Michael Byrne, Loch Salach Cemetery, Clonee
Danny Boy – Sinéad O’Connor – Bing Crosbie - John Griffin, St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Skibbereen
Days – The Kinks – Jimmy O’Shea, St Michael’s Cemetery, Blackrock, Cork
Further On Up The Road – Bruce Springsteen – Tommy Deane, Camp
Keep Right On Till the End of the Road – Harry Lauder – Joseph Lynch, Dromcliffe Cemetery, Ennis
My Way – Frank Sinatra - Joe O’Sullivan - St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Skibbereen
Mountain Dew – Clancy Brothers / The Dubliners – Denis Martin, Ballinure
Non, Je ne regrette rien – Edith Piaf - Joe O’Sullivan - St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Skibbereen
Siúil A Rún - Clannad – Fergus Nolan, Blacklion
The Fairy Tree – Mary O’Hara / John McCormack – Kate Ryan, Shanrahan
THE POEMS, etc
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Thomas Gray - Pat Dinneen, St Patrick's Cemetery Bandon
The Cremation of Sam McGee – Johnny Cash – Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Uncle James – John O’Rourke – Rosemary & James O’Rourke, Blacklion
A Season In Hell – Arthur Rimbaud – Padraic Fallon, St. Eltin's Cemetery, Kinsale
Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare - Tadhg Ó Buachall, Gougane Barra
The Cremation of Sam McGee – Johnny Cash – Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Uncle James – John O’Rourke – Rosemary & James O’Rourke, Blacklion
A Season In Hell – Arthur Rimbaud – Padraic Fallon, St. Eltin's Cemetery, Kinsale
Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare - Tadhg Ó Buachall, Gougane Barra