FAIQ #8 What's Your Favourite Irish Song?

A: Sheena Was a Punk Rocker

Why do I have to have a favourite Irish song? What's your favourite American song?

In the Irish trad music sense, which may or may not be what you mean, Raglan Road is hard to better - because if you went to my school you left knowing the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh, and somehow still liking it even though you were a teenager from Dublin and he was a culchie whose bank of youth was burgled by the stoney grey soil of Monaghan.

And because of the presence of Luke Kelly.

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