Skywatch Friday

 

I'm linking up over here today!

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day so here are some photos we took of Galway Bay in Ireland.

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I found the following information about Galway Bay on wikipedia.

Galway Bay in popular culture

From traditional Irish song The Rare Old Mountain Dew:

Let grasses grow and waters flow

In a free and easy way

But give me enough of the rare old stuff

That's made near Galway Bay

• From John Lennon's song The Luck of the Irish:

If we could make chains with the morning dew

The world would be like Galway Bay

• From Arthur Colahan's song Galway Bay:

If you ever go across the sea to Ireland

Then maybe at the closing of your day

You will go and see the moon rise over Claddagh

Or see the sun go down at Galway Bay.

• From a song performed by Sean Connery in Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People:

Have you ever seen the seagulls

a-flying on to Heaven

or the crimson sails on Galway Bay

the fishermen unfurl?

• From Steve Earle's musical tribute to Townes Van Zandt, "Ft. Worth Blues":

There's a full moon over Galway Bay tonight

Silver light over green and blue

And every place I travel through, I find

Some kinda sign that you've been through

Earle also mentions Galway and The Long Walk in his song "Galway Girl".

• From the Pogues's "Fairytale of New York":

The boys in the NYPD choir

are still singing "Galway Bay"

And the bells are ringing out

For Christmas day."

• Galway Bay is also mentioned in Ireland's Call, Ireland's official rugby anthem, written by Phil Coulter.