"Scorn Not His Simplicity" is a song written by the Irish musician and songwriter Phil Coulter and performed on his albums Classic Tranquility and The Songs I Love So Well.[1][2]
The song has also been performed by several Irish musicians, including Luke Kelly, Sinéad O'Connor, Paddy Reilly, The Dubliners, Sonny Knowles, The Irish Tenors, Celtic Thunder, Paul Byrom, George Donaldson, Mike Denver.[citation needed]
The Dubliners released the original recording as the B-side to "ScornNotHisSimplicity" in 1971. One year later the song was included on their live album...
Kelly [...] rarely performed 'ScornNotHisSimplicity' — one of his most famous songs, penned by Phil Coulter about his Down syndrome son — on stage "On...
four. With the encouragement of Luke Kelly, he wrote the song "ScornNotHisSimplicity" to help him get through the difficult time. Kelly recorded the...
visions throughout his life which made him the object of scorn. He applied to the Conventual Franciscan friars, but was rejected due to his lack of education...
The Dubliners "Dreaming My Dreams" - The Fureys & Davey Arthur "ScornNotHisSimplicity" - Luke Kelly (archival footage) "Luke - a Tribute" - Christy Moore...
trust or priorities in, other than God, can become an idol. Rather than scorn the Israelites for falling into the worship of idols, Luther commented that...
who is independent of society and that civilization is regressive. He scornednot only family and socio-political organization, but also property rights...
resigned his commission, choosing to join his family in exile in England. This brought him further scorn from royalists because he did not join Louis...
contains the following exchange: Matzagente: I scorn to retort the obtuse jest of a fool. [Balurdo draws out his writing tables, and writes.] Balurdo: Retort...
recollections of his younger brother David, who had gone to Atlanta as part of a singing group, to unleash a lashing of irony and scorn on the South, white...
several senses, the first of which was "nobility of soul, magnanimity, and a scorn of meanness". This sort of honour derives from the perceived virtuous conduct...
Symphony, a success in Krefeld in 1902, was treated in Vienna with critical scorn: "Anyone who has committed such a deed deserves a couple of years in prison...
good values, such as modesty, honesty, and simplicity. Because Surontiko Samin was illiterate, and also his followers and other Saminist leaders, there...
took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience, and critics scornedhis psychological novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)...
lives for their failure in the fields of France and Belgium. Kipling had scorn for men who shirked duty in the First World War. In "The New Army in Training"...
determine which emotions are basic. A popular example is Paul Ekman and his colleagues' cross-cultural study of 1992, in which they concluded that the...
goes to Charlotte for advice. Charlotte reminds her that she is a woman scorned without a prenuptial agreement, and as such can divorce or reconcile and...
views, not wishing—as he confessed—to risk the scorn "to which he would expose himself on account of the novelty and incomprehensibility of his theses...
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