Here you can find:

• Children’s songs and games
• Saint Patrick’s Day
• Folk songs, airs and old favourites
• Irish poems

My grandmother’s family like so many in the British Isles and the USA were immigrants from County Cork in Ireland so as a young child I heard her sing some of these songs as she looked after me, my brother and cousin while our parents went to work.
Irish folk songs were very popular in the 1960s when as a young student I took up the guitar.
Saint Patrick’s Day falls on February 17th each year.

My old website does not have a dedicated page in this category so I will attempt to gather them together here from other collections at
‘Singing games for children’ with the help of my comprehensive YouTube Irish playlist below:

Find songs, rhymes and games from Ireland on my YouTube topic Playlist
Love this song: 💖 You will find many in this section – must be my County Cork heritage!

Children’s songs and games

Chip, chip my little horse  Irish 💖
YouTube PDF knee bouncing
Come my little darling baby dandling 💖
YouTube PDF
Curoo, curoo (Carol of the birds) 💖
YouTube PDF lullaby / birds / Xmas
Daffodillies yellow an Easter verse
YouTube PDF circle / action game
Frosty weather, snowy weather
YouTube PDF Irish circle / action game
Goodie on a saucer a street song
YouTube PDF
Green gravel a circle game
YouTube PDF
Here we go Santy Maloney a circle game
YouTube PDF
In Derry Vale / Londonderry air new
YouTube PDF Spring / Irish / colour
Jeremiah blow the fire a circle or baby play
YouTube PDF
Little bird on my window 💖
YouTube PDF birds / whistling/ lullaby
Me grandfather died and left me a mule
YouTube PDF
Michael Finnigan
YouTube PDF
Mitty Matty had a hen
YouTube PDF a counting-out playground chant
My Aunt Jane
YouTube PDF skipping game
My singing bird 💖
YouTube PDF Irish poem / birds
On Saturday night I lost my wife a rhyme
YouTube PDF
One, two, three O’Leary a chant / ball game
YouTube PDF
Poor Jane Higgins – a subtraction rhyme
YouTube PDF
Pussy got the measles
YouTube PDF health / Spring
Sally go round the sun
YouTube PDF playground circle game
She didn’t dance, dance, dance baby play
YouTube PDF
Singing so well new
YouTube PDF
The wind blows high a playground game
YouTube PDF
Tommy O’Flynn baby bouncing
YouTube PDF
Wee Mr. Wagtail
YouTube PDF
When I was young I had no sense
YouTube PDF Irish

Saint Patrick’s Day

Five green leprechauns new
YouTube PDF number
Five little leprechauns
YouTube PDF subtraction
Five little shamrocks
YouTube PDF number / colour
I am a jolly leprechaun
YouTube PDF Spring / circle game
I’m a little leprechaun
YouTube PDF
Irish blessing
YouTube PDF
The fairy ball
YouTube PDF
The leprechaun
YouTube PDF
The leprechaun or Fairy Shoemaker
YouTube PDF William Allingham
Three little angels
YouTube PDF

Folk songs, airs and old favourites

Across the Western Ocean
YouTube PDF community / shanty / steady beat
Castle of Dromore / October winds 💖
YouTube PDF Irish folk song / lullaby / Autumn
Connemara cradle song
YouTube PDF a lullaby
Curoo, curoo (Carol of the birds)
YouTube PDF a lullaby / Xmas / Irish
(The) Gypsy Rover
YouTube PDF ‘Singing Together’ BBC Radio for Schools
I know where I’m going
YouTube PDF lullaby
If I were a blackbird
YouTube PDF 💖
Love is teasin’ new
YouTube PDF Irish / folk / community
Molly Malone / Cockles and mussels new
YouTube PDF
My bonny cuckoo new Spring
YouTube PDF
My singing bird 💖
YouTube PDF Irish poem / birds
Nora Lee
YouTube PDF Irish folk
Open the window
YouTube PDF an Irish song about colours
Oro, my little boat 💖
YouTube PDF Irish lullaby
Star of the evening campfire song
YouTube PDF
That’s an Irish lullaby 💖
YouTube PDF a lullaby
The gypsy rover a well known folk tale
YouTube PDF
The lambs in the green fields
YouTube PDF
The spinning wheel
YouTube PDF
The wee falorie man
YouTube PDF
The wren song new
YouTube PDF Xmas / Winter
When Irish eyes are smiling 💖
YouTube PDF
When I was young and had no sense
YouTube PDF

Irish poems

Spirit of the summertime / Song
YouTube PDF new William Allingham
The fairies / Up the airy mountain 💖
YouTube PDF William Allingham