Irish Songs & Lyrics. That's the official title of my Irish song lyrics website. The Irish Songs & Lyrics website began nearly six years ago. Originally, it was the Brobdingnagian Bards' Celtic Lyrics website. The goal was to feature Celtic songs, lyrics, chords, MP3s and sheet music (though sheet music never made it on the site) so people could learn songs the way I did, but ear. Our Celtic Lyrics website was focused on songs that we performed. So later, I decided to expanded the website to include Irish song lyrics that we did not necessarily perform. Thus was born the the Irish Songs & Lyrics website.

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When the site first began, there were very few Celtic lyric websites. Probably the best was Cantaria. They had a nice collection of Irish songs popular among the SCA, plus audio clips. But I preferred streaming audio, and there were no chords to the songs. Playing an autoharp, that was something I considered important. So I decided to create our own Celtic lyric directory.

The Brobdingnagian Bards site grew wonderfully and brought many new fans into our fold from people who were searching for Celtic lyrics. The service we provided was important. But as it grew, we got requests for a couple songs we didn't play. Then we started performing more filk that didn't really fit into the Irish song lyric idea.

So in 2004, I started the Irish Songs & Lyrics directory. This site would continue with what the Brobdingnagian Bards' website had started, but I would add more Irish lyrics. Instead of fully produced music from the Brobdingnagian Bards, I decided I'd just record some solo songs, live, raw recordings so that people could hear what the songs sounded like. Thus was born the current incarnation.

The downside to the Irish Songs & Lyrics website is that I haven't had much time to really record all the songs I wanted to do. Consequently, the site hasn't grown nearly as fast as I wish it would. I'm almost tempted to add music from others, but I think having songs sound mostly the same is probably better overall.

One of the latest features of the Irish Songs & Lyrics website is that you can now download some MP3s from various websites and listen to them at your leisure thanks to services like iTunes.