Galway Girl and Memories of Dublin

This weekend Becks and her mom watched P.S. I Love You which turned Becks into a sobbing wreck.  I caught the last 1/4 of it and thought it what I had seen was pretty good.  One scene that stuck out in my mind was when the main character (I have no idea what her name was) was in the bar and the Irish guy starts singing to her. 

I had never heard that song before and had no idea what it was called or who originally sang it so I did a little digging.  I found out it was called Galway Girl, was written by Steve Earle and recorded by him along with Sharon Shannon is 2000.  Other people also thought it was a good song and it was the most downloaded song in Ireland of 2007. 

Tonight I decided to download the song off of iTunes and found out that several other bands had covered the song.  Steve Earle’s version of the song did not really do it for me so I ended up buying the one recorded by The Town Pants off their Coming Home album.  This song rocks and is currently on perpetual repeat on my iPod. 

Listening to this song reminds me of being in Dublin in the fall of 2000.  I went with my buddy Alan Dorfman who I met while attending the London School of Economics.  We bought airline tickets for a pound plus tax and ended up staying in a dodgy youth hostel.  I took down my old photo albums and reminisced tonight. Dublin was a blast as we hit the pubs, heard some great music, saw the Book of Kells, ate lamb stew, and met some really cute Irish girls.   The Irish really know how to have a good time and made us feel welcome.  I have never been to a friendlier city, and Dublin was my favorite city that I visited in Europe.