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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 10:25 AM Mar 2015

Songs for St. Patrick's Day that keep it real

A Pogues song that has come 'round to be needed again, now that the "Celtic Tiger" economic boom has collapsed, thanks to the overreaching greed of the Irish 1%

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Luke Kelly singing Ewan MacColl's classic about the Irish guest workers who were overworked and underpaid in the construction of the M1 motorway in the UK:




Declan Hunt sings Dominic Behan's tribute to the Irish revolutionary socialist James Connolly

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Songs for St. Patrick's Day that keep it real (Original Post) Ken Burch Mar 2015 OP
One of my favorites Proud Public Servant Mar 2015 #1

Proud Public Servant

(2,097 posts)
1. One of my favorites
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 10:30 AM
Mar 2015

Sure, the sampling of both "Fiddler on the Roof and "Eleanor Rigby" is kind of nuts, but one would expect no less from Sinéad...

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