0:00:02 > 0:00:04APPLAUSE
0:00:18 > 0:00:21CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:24President, Your Highnesses,
0:00:24 > 0:00:28Excellencies, Ministers and, as the rest of us are known,
0:00:28 > 0:00:30ladies and gentlemen.
0:00:30 > 0:00:31Welcome!
0:00:31 > 0:00:34CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:34 > 0:00:37The title of this evening's event is Ceiliuradh,
0:00:37 > 0:00:41which translates as celebration.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43It'll be a celebration of Irish creativity
0:00:43 > 0:00:46in one of the homes of British creativity,
0:00:46 > 0:00:47with the spirit of collaboration
0:00:47 > 0:00:51at the heart of everything you see and hear tonight.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55We're here on this historic occasion of the first-ever state visit
0:00:55 > 0:00:58of the President of Ireland to Great Britain.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01This is the final evening... You should "whoo"!
0:01:01 > 0:01:04CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:01:11 > 0:01:14The list of Irish artists who have made their way here
0:01:14 > 0:01:16is a long and distinguished one.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17It continues to lengthen.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20It includes Irish musicians, comedians,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22performers,
0:01:22 > 0:01:23God help us, hosts...
0:01:23 > 0:01:24LAUGHTER
0:01:24 > 0:01:28..some of whom will celebrate our two countries' ties tonight.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30I myself am a child of two fathers.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Dad, don't worry, I'll explain.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34LAUGHTER
0:01:34 > 0:01:36I was born here in Great Britain to Irish parents
0:01:36 > 0:01:37who are here tonight.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39In fact, I am reliably informed
0:01:39 > 0:01:41I was "made in Ireland", whatever that means.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:01:49 > 0:01:52As a child of two fathers, I think I am qualified to say the Irish
0:01:52 > 0:01:55and the British have more in common than we both like to admit.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57But that is what tonight is all about -
0:01:57 > 0:02:00admitting it, embracing it, celebrating it,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02and looking forward together.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Enjoy the evening. Thank you so much for celebrating with us.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Please welcome now Donal Lunny and his house band.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:02:37 > 0:02:42# My heart tonight is far away across the rolling sea
0:02:42 > 0:02:45# In the sweet Milltown Malbay
0:02:45 > 0:02:49# And it's there I'd love to be
0:02:49 > 0:02:52# So long ago and far away
0:02:52 > 0:02:54# Nothing can compare
0:02:54 > 0:02:57# And my heart's tonight in Ireland
0:02:57 > 0:03:00# In the sweet County Clare
0:03:03 > 0:03:07# In the town of Scariff the sun was shining in the sky
0:03:07 > 0:03:10# When Willie Clancy played his pipes
0:03:10 > 0:03:14# And the tears welled in my eyes
0:03:14 > 0:03:16# Many years have passed and gone
0:03:16 > 0:03:19# Since the times we had there
0:03:19 > 0:03:22# But my heart's tonight in Ireland
0:03:22 > 0:03:26# In the sweet County Clare
0:03:26 > 0:03:28# My heart tonight is far away
0:03:28 > 0:03:31# Across the rolling sea
0:03:31 > 0:03:34# In the sweet Milltown Malbay
0:03:34 > 0:03:38# And it's there I'd love to be
0:03:38 > 0:03:40# So long ago and far away
0:03:40 > 0:03:43# Nothing can compare
0:03:43 > 0:03:45# My heart's tonight in Ireland
0:03:45 > 0:03:49# In the sweet County Clare
0:03:51 > 0:03:53# That August in Kilrush
0:03:53 > 0:03:56# When the rain was lashing down
0:03:56 > 0:03:59# And our hotel was that hay barn
0:03:59 > 0:04:02# On the outskirts of town
0:04:02 > 0:04:05# We were all sick and feverish
0:04:05 > 0:04:08# And Dolan had the flu
0:04:08 > 0:04:10# But Johnny produced some whiskey
0:04:10 > 0:04:14# And the sun came shining through
0:04:14 > 0:04:17# My heart tonight is far away
0:04:17 > 0:04:20# Across the rolling sea
0:04:20 > 0:04:22In the sweet Milltown Malbay
0:04:22 > 0:04:26# And it's there I'd love to be
0:04:26 > 0:04:29# So long ago and far away
0:04:29 > 0:04:31# Nothing can compare
0:04:31 > 0:04:34# My heart's tonight in Ireland
0:04:34 > 0:04:38# In the sweet County Clare
0:04:39 > 0:04:42# Those nights in Sixmilebridge
0:04:42 > 0:04:45# When the music flowed
0:04:45 > 0:04:47# And many was the time at night
0:04:47 > 0:04:52# That lights were turned down low
0:04:52 > 0:04:56# The sergeant from Kilkishen He would buy us all one more
0:04:56 > 0:05:02# And we never left that pub before the clock was striking four
0:05:31 > 0:05:33# Lahinch and Ennistymon
0:05:33 > 0:05:35# Liscannor and Kilkee
0:05:35 > 0:05:38# But best of all was Milltown
0:05:38 > 0:05:42# When the music flowed so free
0:05:42 > 0:05:45# Willie Clancy in the County Clare
0:05:45 > 0:05:47# I'm ever in your debt
0:05:47 > 0:05:49# For the sights and sounds of yesterday
0:05:49 > 0:05:54# Are shining memories yet
0:05:54 > 0:05:56# My heart tonight is far away
0:05:56 > 0:05:59# Across the rolling sea
0:05:59 > 0:06:02# In the sweet Milltown Malbay
0:06:02 > 0:06:05# And it's there I'd love to be
0:06:05 > 0:06:08# So long ago and far away
0:06:08 > 0:06:11# Nothing can compare
0:06:11 > 0:06:13# My heart's tonight in Ireland
0:06:13 > 0:06:18# In the sweet County Clare
0:06:18 > 0:06:24# In the days of Sweeney in the sweet County Clare. #
0:06:48 > 0:06:49Whoo!
0:06:54 > 0:06:55AUDIENCE CLAP IN RHYTHM
0:07:57 > 0:08:01CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Andy Irvine with My Heart's Tonight In Ireland.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Will you please welcome a great Irish writer,
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Mr Joseph O'Connor.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:08:27 > 0:08:31July 1969
0:08:31 > 0:08:33I was aged 21
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Fought with the old lad for the length of me hair
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Never said goodbye
0:08:39 > 0:08:40Packed a rucksack with curses
0:08:40 > 0:08:44and hitched the road to Dun Laoghaire Pier
0:08:44 > 0:08:46and the boat train to Euston.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49A cousin's digs in a Harrow Road boarding house
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Lonesome after dark
0:08:51 > 0:08:55Head full of wildfires and rock'n'roll London
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Saw the Who live in Brixton
0:08:57 > 0:09:01Saw the Stones in Hyde Park.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06Poured Atlantics of concrete in Dalston and Hammersmith
0:09:06 > 0:09:08The dance hall in Brixton
0:09:08 > 0:09:10The chapel in Bow
0:09:10 > 0:09:13Or the freeze of a south-east London morning
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Digging trench tunnels in the Lewisham snow.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Remember me, brother
0:09:19 > 0:09:24In Maida Vale, where I worked on the flats near the working man's hall
0:09:24 > 0:09:28Donegal Tom and Roscommon Johnny Casey
0:09:28 > 0:09:32Humming Roxy Music's The Thrill Of It All.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35On our way to confession one Christmas Eve night
0:09:35 > 0:09:39The Bethlehem stars over Kensington Gore
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Punk girl was Irish
0:09:41 > 0:09:44She begged us for a copper
0:09:44 > 0:09:48Sang us the Gleanntain Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Then she pointed to a building all glittered in lights
0:09:51 > 0:09:55Round as a cardinal Handsome and tall, said
0:09:55 > 0:09:59"I think of John Lennon every time I pass it by
0:09:59 > 0:10:02"And one night the Pride of Ireland's
0:10:02 > 0:10:04"going to fill the Albert Hall."
0:10:04 > 0:10:07CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:10:13 > 0:10:17Ta ait i mo chroi do gach fear 's gach mnaoi
0:10:17 > 0:10:19'S gach paiste beag agus mor
0:10:19 > 0:10:24Ata beo go buan Gan bhuairt, gan ghruaim
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Fa Ghleanntain Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30Remember me, sister
0:10:30 > 0:10:34In Stepney and Bayswater is all I ask
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Without sorrow or hate
0:10:36 > 0:10:40in Harwich and Deptford and Romford and Woolwich
0:10:40 > 0:10:44In Canning Town, in New Cross Gate
0:10:44 > 0:10:48Through the city of songs where the sweet Thames flows
0:10:48 > 0:10:51For a London calling with lustre and light
0:10:51 > 0:10:56From the Waterloo sunset to the rainy nights of Soho.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00And down in the tube station at midnight
0:11:00 > 0:11:04Where I drove their trains Where I hefted a pick
0:11:04 > 0:11:08As my daughters taught their children or nursed their sick
0:11:08 > 0:11:12Where Ireland married England So close for so long
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Oh, for all my children
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Paul Brady, sing my song.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:11:27 > 0:11:31# Yeah
0:11:31 > 0:11:33# Oh, oh-ho-ho
0:11:33 > 0:11:35# Oh-oh-oh
0:11:39 > 0:11:41# Well, I was just about 19
0:11:41 > 0:11:44# When I landed on the shore
0:11:44 > 0:11:46# My eyes big as headlights
0:11:46 > 0:11:49# Like the thousands and thousands who came before
0:11:49 > 0:11:51# I was going to be something
0:11:51 > 0:11:55# Smiled at the man scrutinising my face
0:11:55 > 0:11:57# As I walked down off the gangway
0:12:02 > 0:12:04# Came down to the city
0:12:05 > 0:12:08# Where I worked for many's the year
0:12:08 > 0:12:10# Built a hundred houses
0:12:10 > 0:12:12I must've pulled half a million pints of beer
0:12:12 > 0:12:14# Living under suspicion
0:12:14 > 0:12:18# Putting up with the hatred and fear in their eyes
0:12:18 > 0:12:20# You can see that you're nothing but a murderer
0:12:21 > 0:12:25# Yeah, in their eyes, we're nothing but a bunch of murderers
0:12:28 > 0:12:32# So, hey, Johnny Can't wait till Saturday night
0:12:33 > 0:12:35# Got a thirst that's raging
0:12:35 > 0:12:38# I know a place where we can put that right
0:12:38 > 0:12:41# Wash away the frustrations
0:12:41 > 0:12:44# Hose down these flames inside But look out... #
0:12:45 > 0:12:46Yeah!
0:12:47 > 0:12:49# I said, "Look out
0:12:49 > 0:12:51# "Cos I'll tear you into pieces if you cross me
0:12:54 > 0:12:56# "Don't come too close"
0:13:01 > 0:13:04# I'm sick of watching them break up
0:13:04 > 0:13:06# Every time some bird brain puts us down
0:13:06 > 0:13:11# Making jokes on the radio Guess it helps them all drown out
0:13:11 > 0:13:14# The sound of the crumbling foundations
0:13:14 > 0:13:17# Any fool could see the writing's on the wall
0:13:17 > 0:13:20# But they just don't believe that it is happening
0:13:24 > 0:13:27# But there's a crowd says I'm all right
0:13:27 > 0:13:30# They say they like my turn of phrase
0:13:30 > 0:13:32# Take me round to their parties
0:13:32 > 0:13:35# Like some dressed-up monkey in a cage
0:13:35 > 0:13:37# And I play my accordion
0:13:37 > 0:13:41# Whoa, but when the wine seeps through the facade
0:13:41 > 0:13:43# It's nothing but the same old story
0:13:43 > 0:13:45# You and I knew
0:13:45 > 0:13:49# It's nothing but the same old story
0:13:51 > 0:13:52# So, hey, Johnny
0:13:52 > 0:13:54# Can't wait till Saturday night
0:13:55 > 0:13:58# Got a thirst that's raging
0:13:58 > 0:14:01# I know a place where we can put that right
0:14:01 > 0:14:03# Wash away the confusion
0:14:03 > 0:14:06# Hose down these flames inside But look out
0:14:09 > 0:14:10# Yeah
0:14:10 > 0:14:11# I said, "Look out
0:14:11 > 0:14:14# "Cos I'll tear you into pieces if you cross me"
0:14:19 > 0:14:20# Yeah
0:14:29 > 0:14:31# I got a brother in Boston
0:14:31 > 0:14:34# He said he'd send me on the fare
0:14:34 > 0:14:37# Just wrote me a letter
0:14:37 > 0:14:40# Making out that he's cleaning up out there
0:14:40 > 0:14:42# Three cars in the driveway
0:14:42 > 0:14:45# Summer house way down on the Cape And I know
0:14:45 > 0:14:47# He'll fix me up in the morning
0:14:50 > 0:14:51# My brother
0:14:57 > 0:14:59# Well, I've been thinking about it
0:15:00 > 0:15:02# But it seems so far to go
0:15:02 > 0:15:05# People say in the winter
0:15:05 > 0:15:07# You get lost underneath the snow
0:15:07 > 0:15:10# And there's this girl from my home place
0:15:10 > 0:15:13# We've been planning to move back and give it a try
0:15:14 > 0:15:16# So I never got around to going
0:15:18 > 0:15:22# That's right I never got around to going
0:15:24 > 0:15:26# So, hey, Johnny
0:15:26 > 0:15:28# Can't wait till Saturday night
0:15:28 > 0:15:31# Got a thirst that's raging
0:15:31 > 0:15:34# I know a place where we can put that right
0:15:34 > 0:15:36# Wash away the frustrations
0:15:36 > 0:15:39# Hose down these flames inside But look out
0:15:42 > 0:15:44# Yeah
0:15:44 > 0:15:46# I said look out
0:15:46 > 0:15:47# Don't come too close
0:15:49 > 0:15:53# Hey, ho-ho-oh-ho
0:15:53 > 0:15:54# Yeah
0:15:59 > 0:16:00# Yeah
0:16:01 > 0:16:04# Ni-no, ni-no
0:16:06 > 0:16:08# I said look out. #
0:16:08 > 0:16:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Great stuff! Paul Brady.
0:16:41 > 0:16:46# Do you remember we traipsed around
0:16:46 > 0:16:50# From pub to pound shop through Kentish Town
0:16:50 > 0:16:56# Only a fiver to our name
0:16:56 > 0:17:01# The drunk on the doorstep had more to our shame
0:17:01 > 0:17:03# Living over the offy
0:17:03 > 0:17:06# Had its trials
0:17:06 > 0:17:10# The fights all night out there and inside
0:17:10 > 0:17:15# And those stews that lasted three days into four
0:17:15 > 0:17:20# And the dreaded bailiffs return to our door
0:17:20 > 0:17:23# But we stuck with each other
0:17:23 > 0:17:25# With all our might
0:17:25 > 0:17:28# We pulled it together
0:17:28 > 0:17:30# And held on tight
0:17:30 > 0:17:32# And I'm glad for us
0:17:32 > 0:17:35# Yeah, I'm glad, mo chroi
0:17:35 > 0:17:41# But it's nothing to anyone except you and me
0:17:41 > 0:17:46# There are wrongs for every right
0:17:46 > 0:17:50# There's ups and there's downs
0:17:50 > 0:17:55# But you're the one for all my life
0:17:55 > 0:17:59# My true love I have found
0:17:59 > 0:18:01# Yeah
0:18:01 > 0:18:05# You, my love, I've found
0:18:08 > 0:18:13# I watched the moon cover the might of the sun
0:18:13 > 0:18:17# The weird evening light at a quarter past one
0:18:17 > 0:18:22# And I knew in my head as you lay in our bed
0:18:22 > 0:18:28# You'd stay in my heart till the day I was dead
0:18:28 > 0:18:33# We killed each other then loved in time
0:18:33 > 0:18:37# And laughed till we almost cried
0:18:37 > 0:18:43# Yeah, we cried as well when it all went to hell
0:18:43 > 0:18:47# And my heart it broke till I swear I died
0:18:47 > 0:18:53# But we stuck with each other with all our might
0:18:53 > 0:18:58# We pulled it together and held on tight
0:18:58 > 0:19:02# And I'm glad for us Yeah, I'm glad, mo chroi
0:19:02 > 0:19:08# But it's nothing to anyone except you and me
0:19:08 > 0:19:13# There are wrongs for every right
0:19:13 > 0:19:17# There's ups and there's downs
0:19:17 > 0:19:22# But you're the one for all my life
0:19:22 > 0:19:27# My true love I have found
0:19:27 > 0:19:32# Yeah, you, my love, I've found
0:19:54 > 0:20:00# Oh, you're good at the things that I'm hopeless at
0:20:00 > 0:20:04# And I notice what you ignore
0:20:04 > 0:20:10# But it's when I see you're not perfect for me
0:20:10 > 0:20:15# It's then I love you more and more
0:20:15 > 0:20:20# Oh, we stuck with each other with all our might
0:20:20 > 0:20:24# We pulled it together and held on tight
0:20:24 > 0:20:29# And I'm glad for us Yeah, I'm glad, mo chroi
0:20:29 > 0:20:35# But it's nothing to anyone except you and me
0:20:35 > 0:20:40# There are wrongs for every right
0:20:40 > 0:20:44# There's ups and there's downs
0:20:44 > 0:20:49# But you're the one for all my life
0:20:49 > 0:20:53# My true love I have found
0:20:53 > 0:20:58# Yeah, you, my love, I've found
0:20:58 > 0:21:04# Oh, there are wrongs for every right
0:21:04 > 0:21:08# There's ups and there's downs
0:21:08 > 0:21:15# Oh, but you're the one for all my life
0:21:15 > 0:21:18# My true love I have found
0:21:18 > 0:21:24# Yeah, you, my love, I've found
0:21:27 > 0:21:33# Doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo. #
0:21:33 > 0:21:36CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:21:36 > 0:21:39SHE SPEAKS IRISH
0:21:39 > 0:21:43The amazing legend that is John Sheahan.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05# Doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo
0:22:05 > 0:22:08# Doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo
0:22:08 > 0:22:11# Doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo
0:22:11 > 0:22:13# Doo
0:22:13 > 0:22:16# My thoughts are dark and empty
0:22:16 > 0:22:19# I'm not crying out loud
0:22:19 > 0:22:24# Don't know what am I asking for if an answer can't be found
0:22:24 > 0:22:30# The loneliness is killing though there's someone in my bed
0:22:30 > 0:22:35# There's only so much living and I fear I could be dead
0:22:35 > 0:22:41# But they're standing at my window when the night seems like it's won
0:22:41 > 0:22:48# And everything seems brighter with the sign of the sun
0:22:48 > 0:22:52# And I said Oh, my God, it's good to be alive
0:22:52 > 0:22:54# Oh, my God, it's good to be alive
0:22:54 > 0:22:58# I know one thing for sure is that I love today
0:22:58 > 0:23:00# Yeah, it's good to be alive, yeah
0:23:00 > 0:23:03# Yeah, yeah
0:23:04 > 0:23:05# Mm, yeah
0:23:05 > 0:23:08# Things are looking up for me
0:23:08 > 0:23:10# When the clock keeps ticking on
0:23:10 > 0:23:14# Oh, holding on to time gone by
0:23:14 > 0:23:16# Clinging to a song
0:23:16 > 0:23:19# To pull me through with every word
0:23:19 > 0:23:22# Or rock me with a tune
0:23:22 > 0:23:27# And hold my hand, but the shadow man is lying in my room
0:23:27 > 0:23:33# But they're standing at my window when the night seems like it's broke
0:23:33 > 0:23:38# And everything seems brighter with the sign of the sun
0:23:38 > 0:23:43# And I said Oh, my God, it's good to be alive
0:23:43 > 0:23:46# Oh, my God, it's good to be alive
0:23:46 > 0:23:49# I know one thing for sure is that I love today
0:23:49 > 0:23:53# Yeah, it's good to be alive, yeah
0:24:08 > 0:24:11# Yeah, yeah, yeah! Yeah!
0:24:25 > 0:24:28# Doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo
0:24:28 > 0:24:30# Doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo
0:24:30 > 0:24:35# Lying in my bedroom My eyes are wide awake
0:24:35 > 0:24:41# My body's died and given up Oh, for heaven's sake
0:24:41 > 0:24:44# Won't you please send me a little sleep
0:24:44 > 0:24:47# To ease my worried mind
0:24:47 > 0:24:53# I'm losing rationality that I won't know how to find
0:24:53 > 0:24:58# But they're standing out my window when the night seems like it's broke
0:24:58 > 0:25:03# And everything seems brighter with the sign of the sun
0:25:05 > 0:25:08# And I said Oh, my God, it's good to be alive
0:25:08 > 0:25:11# Oh, my God, it's good to be alive
0:25:11 > 0:25:15# I know one thing for sure is that I love today
0:25:15 > 0:25:17# Yeah, it's good to be alive
0:25:17 > 0:25:20# Oh, my God, it's good to be alive
0:25:20 > 0:25:22# Oh, my God, it's good to be alive
0:25:22 > 0:25:26# I know one thing for sure is that I love today
0:25:26 > 0:25:29# Yeah, it's good to be alive, yeah
0:25:29 > 0:25:32# It's good to be alive
0:25:32 > 0:25:34# It's good to be alive
0:25:34 > 0:25:37# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
0:25:37 > 0:25:39# Yeah, yeah, yeah. #
0:25:40 > 0:25:43APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:25:47 > 0:25:51Thank you very much. It's good to be alive on a night like this, isn't it?
0:25:53 > 0:25:54Thank you.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02OK, and time for a dance.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13AUDIENCE CLAP IN RHYTHM
0:27:48 > 0:27:51CHEERING
0:30:05 > 0:30:07CHEERING
0:30:19 > 0:30:24Incredible dancing from Caitlin, Seo, Michael and Ellie!
0:30:24 > 0:30:26Great stuff.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29OK, I'd like to introduce you now to a great musician
0:30:29 > 0:30:31and a brilliant songwriter.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33He's been on my BBC Radio 2 show many times,
0:30:33 > 0:30:36twice nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.
0:30:36 > 0:30:39Please welcome, singing My Lighthouse, Villagers,
0:30:39 > 0:30:41otherwise known as Conor O'Brien.
0:30:41 > 0:30:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:31:01 > 0:31:04# You are needing a friend
0:31:06 > 0:31:10# For to follow, for to fend
0:31:13 > 0:31:17# And I haven't got a clue
0:31:19 > 0:31:24# If I'm getting through to you
0:31:24 > 0:31:28# My lighthouse
0:31:32 > 0:31:36# In the violent moonlight
0:31:39 > 0:31:42# I am searching the tide
0:31:44 > 0:31:50# In a vessel, in the storm
0:31:50 > 0:31:55# And you're the kind host in the port
0:31:57 > 0:31:59# My lighthouse
0:32:03 > 0:32:10# And we'll be there to right our wrongs
0:32:10 > 0:32:16# In the time it took to write this song
0:32:16 > 0:32:23# And we'll beat the ghost with our bare hands
0:32:23 > 0:32:29# And we'll skin the corpse and we'll love and laugh
0:32:29 > 0:32:36# And we'll dance all everlasting day
0:32:36 > 0:32:43# And you'll sing to me everything I meant to say
0:32:43 > 0:32:50# And we'll drink to the gentle, and meek and the kind
0:32:50 > 0:32:57# And the funny little flaws in this earthly design
0:32:57 > 0:33:04# From the Reeperbahn to the Sundarban
0:33:04 > 0:33:10# I will heed your call from the dust and the sand
0:33:10 > 0:33:20# And I'll save all my stories for thee. #
0:33:24 > 0:33:27CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:33:37 > 0:33:40And now, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure
0:33:40 > 0:33:43to welcome to the stage one of my favourite songwriters
0:33:43 > 0:33:46of all time, Mr Elvis Costello.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48CHEERING
0:34:15 > 0:34:17# Is it worth it?
0:34:19 > 0:34:26# A new winter coat and shoes for the wife
0:34:28 > 0:34:33# And a bicycle on the boy's birthday
0:34:33 > 0:34:38# It's just a rumour that was spread around town
0:34:40 > 0:34:43# By the women and children
0:34:43 > 0:34:49# Soon we'll be shipbuilding
0:34:52 > 0:34:55# Well, I ask you
0:34:58 > 0:35:01# The boy said, "Dad,
0:35:01 > 0:35:06# "They're going to take me to task
0:35:08 > 0:35:12# "But I'll be back by Christmas"
0:35:12 > 0:35:18# It's just a rumour that was spread around town
0:35:18 > 0:35:24# Somebody said that someone got filled in
0:35:24 > 0:35:30# For saying that people get killed in
0:35:30 > 0:35:38# The result of this shipbuilding
0:35:40 > 0:35:46# With all the will in the world
0:35:46 > 0:35:51# Diving for dear life
0:35:52 > 0:35:59# When we could be diving for pearls
0:36:23 > 0:36:29# It's just a rumour that was spread around town
0:36:29 > 0:36:35# A telegram or a picture postcard
0:36:35 > 0:36:41# Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
0:36:41 > 0:36:48# And notifying the next of kin
0:36:48 > 0:36:51# Once again
0:36:52 > 0:36:57# It's all we're skilled in
0:36:59 > 0:37:04# We will be shipbuilding
0:37:12 > 0:37:19# With all the will in the world
0:37:19 > 0:37:24# Diving for dear life
0:37:34 > 0:37:41# Though we could be diving for pearls
0:37:41 > 0:37:48- # We could be diving for pearls - Could be diving for pearls
0:37:48 > 0:38:01- # When we could be diving for pearls - When we could be diving for pearls
0:38:07 > 0:38:12# When we could be
0:38:13 > 0:38:18# When we could be
0:38:20 > 0:38:30# Diving for pearls. #
0:38:33 > 0:38:35APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:38:50 > 0:38:54This historic first state visit to the UK has touched the hearts
0:38:54 > 0:38:59of Irish people at home and to the huge Irish diaspora here in Britain.
0:38:59 > 0:39:01It will do much to deepen the ties of affection
0:39:01 > 0:39:03between the people of both countries
0:39:03 > 0:39:06and recognise the bonds of family and history
0:39:06 > 0:39:08that bring us close together.
0:39:08 > 0:39:11Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me
0:39:11 > 0:39:16great pleasure to introduce President Michael D Higgins.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51Your Royal Highnesses Prince Michael
0:39:51 > 0:39:52and Princess Michael of Kent,
0:39:52 > 0:39:54A Thaoisigh...
0:39:54 > 0:39:57APPLAUSE
0:40:04 > 0:40:08Taoiseach, Tanaiste, dear friends.
0:40:08 > 0:40:12It is of course right and proper that we congratulate
0:40:12 > 0:40:14the wonderful musicians, singers,
0:40:14 > 0:40:16dancers and composers
0:40:16 > 0:40:19who are taking part in this celebratory occasion,
0:40:19 > 0:40:23which we have given the title Ceiliuradh,
0:40:23 > 0:40:26a beautiful Irish word
0:40:26 > 0:40:30that invokes memory
0:40:30 > 0:40:32and also looks to the future,
0:40:32 > 0:40:35imagination, samhlaiocht,
0:40:35 > 0:40:38and does both with love.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40And in this magnificent venue
0:40:40 > 0:40:42and on this wonderful and historic occasion
0:40:42 > 0:40:46I want to extend my thanks to a number of people
0:40:46 > 0:40:48who have made this evening's celebration
0:40:48 > 0:40:53and, indeed, the past few extraordinary and memorable days
0:40:53 > 0:40:56so positive, so uplifting
0:40:56 > 0:40:58and so hopeful.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01APPLAUSE
0:41:08 > 0:41:13First of all, Sabina and I wish to express our deep appreciation
0:41:13 > 0:41:16to our hosts Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
0:41:16 > 0:41:19and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh,
0:41:19 > 0:41:21who are represented here today.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23APPLAUSE
0:41:27 > 0:41:32We want to thank them for the gracious and generous welcome
0:41:32 > 0:41:34and the warm hospitality
0:41:34 > 0:41:37that they have extended to us and to our delegation
0:41:37 > 0:41:41and to thank them for being represented here this evening
0:41:41 > 0:41:44by Prince Michael and Princess Michael of Kent.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47I'm delighted that their Royal Highnesses
0:41:47 > 0:41:49have been able to join us this evening
0:41:49 > 0:41:52and we all hope that they will have been sufficiently entertained
0:41:52 > 0:41:57to transmit a positive review to Her Majesty the Queen.
0:41:57 > 0:42:00APPLAUSE
0:42:06 > 0:42:09This evening's celebration
0:42:09 > 0:42:11demonstrates once again
0:42:11 > 0:42:15not only the importance of culture in general,
0:42:15 > 0:42:19culture that crosses generations and boundaries,
0:42:19 > 0:42:23but in particular the depth and the richness
0:42:23 > 0:42:25of our Irish cultural tradition.
0:42:25 > 0:42:27What we've seen and heard
0:42:27 > 0:42:30also shows how deeply interwoven
0:42:30 > 0:42:34are the wider cultures of these islands,
0:42:34 > 0:42:37the contribution that migrants have made to them
0:42:37 > 0:42:39and how they have influenced
0:42:39 > 0:42:45and, from their different allusions and collisions with other cultures,
0:42:45 > 0:42:47how they have enriched each other.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50And on a night like this,
0:42:50 > 0:42:52it is great to be Irish,
0:42:52 > 0:42:54and it is even better
0:42:54 > 0:42:57to share in the company of our neighbours...
0:42:57 > 0:42:59HE SPEAKS IN IRISH
0:42:59 > 0:43:02..our friends in Britain.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04So, ar aghaidh leis an gceol
0:43:04 > 0:43:08agus Beannachtai oraibh go leir.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10And may we all together
0:43:10 > 0:43:13go on to celebrate and get all of the benefits,
0:43:13 > 0:43:16and may future generations after them,
0:43:16 > 0:43:19of this great evening, Ceiliuradh,
0:43:19 > 0:43:21celebrating friendship
0:43:21 > 0:43:26and all of the possibilities that we have together into the future.
0:43:26 > 0:43:30Slan is beannacht. APPLAUSE
0:43:49 > 0:43:52Now, it's probably naive to be still surprised
0:43:52 > 0:43:54at the global reach of Irish music,
0:43:54 > 0:43:58but, by any standard, our next guest has had a stellar career.
0:43:58 > 0:44:00As an actor, in Alan Parker's film The Commitments,
0:44:00 > 0:44:04as frontman and singer-songwriter with his band The Frames,
0:44:04 > 0:44:07and somewhere along the way has picked up an Oscar,
0:44:07 > 0:44:10had a major Broadway success and current West End hit
0:44:10 > 0:44:12with the musical Once.
0:44:12 > 0:44:15Here to perform the Oscar-winning hit from the movie
0:44:15 > 0:44:18is Glen Hansard with the brilliant Lisa Hannigan.
0:44:18 > 0:44:20APPLAUSE
0:44:26 > 0:44:27Thanks, everybody.
0:44:30 > 0:44:33Michael D, thanks for this. What a lovely night.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35Thank you. Thanks for coming over here.
0:44:35 > 0:44:39APPLAUSE
0:44:42 > 0:44:46The Dubliners played here in 1964,
0:44:46 > 0:44:49and John is here, and he's going to join us.
0:44:49 > 0:44:52Please give it up for John Sheahan from The Dubliners.
0:44:52 > 0:44:56APPLAUSE
0:45:04 > 0:45:07All right. Three...
0:45:22 > 0:45:25# I don't know you
0:45:25 > 0:45:28# But I want you
0:45:28 > 0:45:33# All the more for that
0:45:36 > 0:45:39# Words fall through me
0:45:39 > 0:45:42# And always fool me
0:45:42 > 0:45:47# And I can't relax
0:45:50 > 0:45:53# And games that never
0:45:53 > 0:45:57# Amount to more than they're meant
0:45:57 > 0:46:01# Will play themselves out
0:46:07 > 0:46:11# Take this sinking boat
0:46:11 > 0:46:15# And point it home
0:46:15 > 0:46:20# We've still got time
0:46:20 > 0:46:24# Raise your hopeful voice
0:46:24 > 0:46:28# You have a choice
0:46:28 > 0:46:34# You've made it now
0:46:38 > 0:46:41# Falling slowly
0:46:41 > 0:46:45# Eyes that know me
0:46:45 > 0:46:48# And I can't go back
0:46:52 > 0:46:55# Moods that take me
0:46:55 > 0:46:58# And erase me
0:46:58 > 0:47:03# And I paint it black
0:47:06 > 0:47:10# You have suffered enough
0:47:10 > 0:47:14# And warred with yourself
0:47:14 > 0:47:19# It's time that you won
0:47:22 > 0:47:27# Take this sinking boat
0:47:27 > 0:47:30# And point it home
0:47:30 > 0:47:37# We've still got time
0:47:37 > 0:47:40# Raise your hopeful voice
0:47:40 > 0:47:44# You have a choice
0:47:44 > 0:47:51# You've made it now
0:47:51 > 0:47:54# Falling slowly
0:47:54 > 0:47:57# Sing your melody
0:47:57 > 0:48:04# I'll sing along
0:48:06 > 0:48:08# Oh, oh
0:48:10 > 0:48:13# Ahhh
0:48:18 > 0:48:20# Take it all
0:48:25 > 0:48:28# I paid the cost too late
0:48:31 > 0:48:34# Now you're gone. #
0:49:04 > 0:49:07APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:49:27 > 0:49:29Thanks, everybody.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34We've got a few friends joining us now for a song.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36Give it up.
0:49:36 > 0:49:38APPLAUSE
0:49:38 > 0:49:39Thank you.
0:49:49 > 0:49:52If Brendan Behan was here he'd be 91.
0:49:53 > 0:49:58It's his 50th anniversary this year, actually quite close to now.
0:49:58 > 0:50:03This is a song about an Irishman in prison
0:50:03 > 0:50:07for reasons I won't go into...
0:50:07 > 0:50:09LAUGHTER
0:50:09 > 0:50:12..on this lovely night.
0:50:12 > 0:50:17But this is essentially a song about a man missing his girl,
0:50:17 > 0:50:18that's really what it's about,
0:50:18 > 0:50:20he's locked up in a room and he misses her.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23This is a Brendan Behan song, it's called The Auld Triangle,
0:50:23 > 0:50:25- and if you know... - CHEERING
0:50:25 > 0:50:28If you know this song, please help us out.
0:50:38 > 0:50:41# A hungry feeling
0:50:43 > 0:50:48# Came o'er me stealin'
0:50:48 > 0:50:53# And the mice were squealin'
0:50:53 > 0:50:57# In my prison cell
0:50:58 > 0:51:04# And the auld triangle
0:51:04 > 0:51:09# Went jingle-jangle
0:51:09 > 0:51:13# All along the banks
0:51:13 > 0:51:18# Of the Royal Canal
0:51:27 > 0:51:30# To begin the mornin'
0:51:32 > 0:51:36# The screws were ballin'
0:51:38 > 0:51:43# Get up, get up, you bowsie
0:51:43 > 0:51:45# And clean out your cell
0:51:48 > 0:51:53# And the auld triangle
0:51:53 > 0:51:58# Went jingle-jangle
0:51:58 > 0:52:03# All along the banks
0:52:03 > 0:52:09# Of the Royal Canal
0:52:17 > 0:52:21# The wind was sighing
0:52:22 > 0:52:27# As the day was dying
0:52:27 > 0:52:33# As I lay crying
0:52:33 > 0:52:37# In my prison cell
0:52:37 > 0:52:43# And the auld triangle
0:52:43 > 0:52:49# Went jingle-jangle
0:52:49 > 0:52:52# All along the banks
0:52:52 > 0:52:59# Of the Royal Canal
0:53:07 > 0:53:11# On a fine spring mornin'
0:53:12 > 0:53:18# As the loike were a-dreaming
0:53:18 > 0:53:24# And the seagulls they were squealin'
0:53:24 > 0:53:29# All above the prison walls
0:53:29 > 0:53:33# And the auld triangle
0:53:33 > 0:53:38# Went jingle-jangle
0:53:38 > 0:53:44# All along the banks
0:53:44 > 0:53:48# Of the Royal Canal
0:53:57 > 0:54:02# Oh, the screw was peepin'
0:54:02 > 0:54:08# And the lag was sleepin'
0:54:08 > 0:54:14# As I lay there weepin'
0:54:14 > 0:54:18# For my gal Sal
0:54:19 > 0:54:24# And the auld triangle
0:54:24 > 0:54:29# Went jingle-jangle
0:54:29 > 0:54:34# All along the banks
0:54:34 > 0:54:39# Of the Royal Canal... #
0:54:44 > 0:54:45John.
0:54:50 > 0:54:51APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:54:59 > 0:55:03# I wish to Jaysus
0:55:03 > 0:55:09# He'd raise me wages
0:55:09 > 0:55:14# From 30 shillings
0:55:14 > 0:55:19# To two pounds ten
0:55:19 > 0:55:25CHEERING # And the auld triangle
0:55:25 > 0:55:30# Went jingle-jangle
0:55:30 > 0:55:35# All along the banks
0:55:35 > 0:55:40# Of the Royal Canal
0:55:49 > 0:55:53# In the female prison
0:55:53 > 0:55:59# There are 75 women
0:55:59 > 0:56:05# And it is with them
0:56:05 > 0:56:10# That I wish I did dwell
0:56:10 > 0:56:15# And the auld triangle
0:56:15 > 0:56:21# Went jingle-jangle
0:56:21 > 0:56:25# All along the banks
0:56:25 > 0:56:31# Of the Royal Canal
0:56:38 > 0:56:42# On a fine spring evening
0:56:44 > 0:56:49# We all lay dreaming
0:56:49 > 0:56:56# Of a future gleaming
0:56:56 > 0:56:59# In the Royal Albert Hall
0:56:59 > 0:57:01CHEERING
0:57:01 > 0:57:06# And the auld triangle
0:57:06 > 0:57:11# Went jingle-jangle
0:57:11 > 0:57:16# All along the banks
0:57:16 > 0:57:21# Of the Royal Canal... #
0:57:29 > 0:57:31All right, all right, all right.
0:57:31 > 0:57:33So you know it by now, right?
0:57:33 > 0:57:36Most of you knew it already.
0:57:38 > 0:57:42"And the auld triangle went jingle-jangle,
0:57:42 > 0:57:44"all along the banks of the Royal Canal."
0:57:46 > 0:57:48It's you now.
0:57:50 > 0:57:54Imagine it's the last day on earth, it's a Paddy's Day.
0:57:54 > 0:57:58CHEERING
0:57:58 > 0:58:00Everyone's had a drink...
0:58:00 > 0:58:03- just the one. - LAUGHTER
0:58:03 > 0:58:07You might have to stand up for this.
0:58:09 > 0:58:11We're going to give it over to you, it's the last one.
0:58:11 > 0:58:14Are you ready? Here it comes.
0:58:17 > 0:58:22# And the auld triangle
0:58:22 > 0:58:27# Went jingle-jangle
0:58:27 > 0:58:33# All along the banks
0:58:33 > 0:58:38# Of the Royal Canal... #
0:58:40 > 0:58:45APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:58:45 > 0:58:50# And the auld triangle
0:58:50 > 0:58:55# Went jingle-jangle
0:58:55 > 0:59:00# All along the banks
0:59:00 > 0:59:06# Of the Royal Canal. #
0:59:12 > 0:59:15APPLAUSE AND CHEERING