The Unquiet Grave Anonymous Folk ballad said to date to the 1400s and famously recorded by Luke Kelly and The Dubliners fPUBLISHED BY: Kerry County Council ras an Chontae, Ratass, Tralee. Can you imagine how hard life was in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century here in Ireland? [1] One of the more common tunes used for the ballad is the same as that used for the English ballad "Dives and Lazarus" and the Irish pub favorite "Star of the County Down". Aside from being poor, they were governed in the main by antagonistic Protestant and Presbyterian English settlers, who themselves had a short life expectancy. Though he loves her a lot, he refuses to move on in his life. God has provided the knight protection from being defiled by the birds post-mortem in the form of numerous animals. googletag.enableServices(); A tale of love and loss, a poem, a tradition, a ballad, a folk-song, forever in our hearts. She tells him it would kill him. document.write('