My Picks For the Five Most Depressing Irish Songs

Kathy Copeland Padden
4 min readMar 17, 2022

Ah, the Irish. No one can do pathos quite like them. Of course, Irish history provides more than enough fodder for songs of sadness, anguish, and loss. Leave it to the Irish to take a thousand years of tyranny and turn it into something transcendently beautiful.

Four Green Fields

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Kathy Copeland Padden

is a music fanatic, classic film aficionado, and history buff surfing the End Times wave like a boss. Come along!