"Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" is a popular Irish folk and American folk song (Roud 208). Historically, it was often sung as a sea shanty. The song...
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Cretan and Irish Roots/Folk music. The popular Irish folk and American folk song "Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" had previously formed part of their...
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setting sail. "Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" is a popular Irish and American folk song. Historically, it was often sung as a sea chanty. The song portrays...
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Sea shanty (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
example, The Pogues recorded "Poor Paddy [Works on the Railway]" in the arrangement of Folk group The Dubliners, ostensibly because of the Irish connection...
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Lemvig Line (redirect from Lemvig railway line)
the song "VLTJ" describing a trip with the railway. This song later achieved cult status. The song is based on the Irish folk song "Poor Paddy works on...
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Shining Time Station (category American television series based on British television series)
which was in turn based on the books of The Railway Series written by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry. The series aired on PBS from January 29, 1989, until June...
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Off the Train" (J. Fred Helf, E.P. Moran), published 1898 by Byron G. Harlan, see "Lightning Express" for recordings "Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" (Traditional)...
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Love" plus "The Queen's Maries"/"Queen Jane" HMV (10") B.10111 1951: "Cannily, Cannily" (Isla Cameron) / "Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" (Ewan MacColl)...
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"(Bound for) South Australia" and "Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" which became popular in the folk revival of the 1950s-1960s. A subset of his field...
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List of folk songs by Roud number (section The Index)
list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers...
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Mineral Railway - started 1874, abandoned 1896. From Moorholme on the Cleveland Railway to ironworks at Glaisdale. Nicknamed after its contractor, Paddy Waddell...
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Channel Tunnel (redirect from The Chunnel)
The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to informally as the Chunnel, is a 50.46-kilometre (31.35 mi) undersea railway...
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Killiney (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
records the famine of 1741 and the relief works made for the poor which include the obelisk and the many walls which cover the top of the hill. By the 19th...
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gave the village a cricket ground and a hall. He also maintained a cottage home for the children of men killed on his works. His health was poor following...
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Peralam–Karaikal line (category Trichy railway division)
Mayiladuthurai Junction to Tranquebar railway line and Thiruthuraipoondi Junction to Point Calimere Railway line. The works are going on a fast phase at Bodi nayakkanur...
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effort for bringing developmental works to Nagaur. The railway line was closed for the past 23 years. The rail line started on 19 January 2016. A provision...
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to hear because "he is a poor Paddy, and knows no better". The statement that Irishmen always lie is used to explain why "poor ould Ireland does not prosper...
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Johnny Depp (redirect from The Invisible Man (2018 film))
Green. The film was based on a 1960s Gothic television soap opera of the same name, which had been one of his favorites as a child. The film's poor reception...
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Bengal famine of 1943 (redirect from Sex and gender in the Bengal famine of 1943)
loans (cash for the purchase of paddy seed, plough cattle, and maintenance expenses), grain given as gratuitous relief, and "test works" that offered food...
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Eveleigh Chief Mechanical Engineer's office (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Technology Sydney. Decontamination works were carried out to cleared areas of the site progressively. In 1994 Paddy's Markets returned to Haymarket. City...
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Gorbals (redirect from The Gorbals)
commerce in the city centre, factories and warehouses nearby of carpetmaking, garment making, food manufacturing, ironworks, chemical works, railways, docks...
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Moonta Mines, South Australia (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Mines. Patrick " Paddy " Ryan, a shepherd for pastoralist Sir Walter Hughes, discovered copper on Hughes' property at Moonta in May 1861. The Tiparra Mining...
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River Taff (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
of the earliest railway bridges, but was in poor condition in 2002, as is the Victoria Bridge, which was also rebuilt in 1815. Continuing to the south-west...
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Ned Kelly (redirect from The Stringybark Creek police murders)
then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household. The Kellys were a poor selector family who saw themselves as downtrodden by the squattocracy and as...
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Great Famine (Ireland) (redirect from The Irish Potato Famine)
(1987), Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846–1847: Prelude to Hatred, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 978-0-15-670700-8, archived from the original on 14 April...
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The Hanford Engineer Works (HEW) was a nuclear production complex in Benton County, Washington, established by the United States federal government in...
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Harold Wilson (redirect from The Lord Wilson of Rievaulx)
Haines, tried to deflect some of the comment by blaming Wilson's dog Paddy for the problem. Early in 1974, Wilson became the victim of a personation fraud...
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Dundalk F.C. (category Railway association football teams in Ireland)
1903 as Dundalk G.N.R., the works-team of the Great Northern Railway, they were a junior club until they were invited to join the Leinster Senior League...
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Edward William O'Sullivan (category S-bef: 'before' parameter begins with the word 'new')
works he spent £196,600, and on railways £2,964,400. On tramways he expended over half a million; on metropolitan water works another half-million. Country...
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added to the electrification schedule in 2013. In the version of the traditional song "Poor Paddy" by The Pogues, this railway is mentioned in the verse...
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