For Irish people who were raised and songs and stories, there are few heroes of great renown
than Luke Kelly! One of the founding members of The Dubliners a truly great
Irish Band!
Kelly's voice echoes through the capital of Ireland! This week on the
35th anniversary of his death two new status will were unveiled on his honor
So, we went to the streets of building and asked what makes Kelly a true Irish Lengend!
let's go!
he's kind of music it embodies what Dublin people and Celtic
folk music is about especially in Ireland it's not just about the music
it's the stories that go along with it like The Dubliners especially that was
very very important part of the heritage I really like the fact that he's getting
his own statue Oni only pays homage to that like almost of
the same age as the Dubliners a bit younger than they were and in my
twenties I was a great fan of theirs I thought their records and them I used to
regularly go to the embankment and talent and to the Royal Hotel impulse in
many weeks sometimes twice a week and I just love them
the last time I saw Luke Kelly
he was in there and he had a flat cap on and I went and
I said how you cro** ?
He said , FUCKOFF
After he came and apologise and said after having an operation he said and I
didn't know I said
that's not for quoting I said he was a brilliant singer
but I got the spirit at the time and continues to do so well he was very
instrumental in gathering songs with the Dubliners started operationally he was
one of the ones who was very interested in getting the authentic sounds and
older so the Dubliners they were part of this whole scene and they were even
banned in England he would have come from a very kind of lower socioeconomic
background you know from the working man's background they would have grown
up in a time where his big big big families and not a lot of money amongst
them families so a lot of a lot of the storytelling would have come from
singing a lot of you know a lot of families would have went to other
people's houses and sat down and had Kayle bands and sings and songs stuff
like that and like that's a big character of Irish history and tradition
that's a big part of our storytelling in the reserve in your memory regarding
those moments oh yeah my grandad is a big big big locally found massive
massive locality so that's like I mean you carry that with you through it like
every time you hear a low Kelly's on you're you know you're you're taken back
through the years you're taken back sort of nostalgia nostalgia absolutely one of
those soft Grafton Street I was in there with people around
part of the company but you could not be a but be aware of the extent of his
first McCall the singers go and he came over he was before artists not to sing a
Bob Dylan song it gave me the price and to the camera would City won and I said
underwater focus on the air he said why don't you go mo moany said there's a
bubble I love the oldest boy band in the world they had an incredible lineup they
not only had the two of the great singers running drew and Luke Kelly he
had of the man who changed the van Gogh mmm turning McKenna who has complete
legend of a magician when they get together everything so super fantastic I
shot the first time I shot and my father brought me today Grafton cinema you were
playing them fair and after that I decided
he liked singing ballots of protesters while he was very much a man of the left
he was interested he would have been influenced by the Bob Dylan local
particular was very political very interested in the day-to-day he was
socially where he was amazing I suppose when you think of him as a singing is
there's no one can equal his ability to sing and just for me personally the
score not his simplicity song just as he speaks that I would be as Chavez
children through in today that's very much prevalent that it's a huge problem
which he was obviously addressing or at the time would be if that problem man
was ahead of his time and he's carrying on I think it's important that music
like film is that it's it's never in what its intergeneration it's always
something that's passed down through the generations puts if there's if you're
asking if there's somebody like that anymore there's there's nobody like you
oh I loved too much and by such