HISTORY LESSONS AGAIN
Ring of Kerry, Lackendaragh Fachta Finn and Gougane Barra Ollam, Piper, Beann a Ti Farmer, Fiddler and Land-Lease Viking, Norsemen and Wild Geese Erimon and Fionn Macool De Danann and No Home Rule
Clonmacnois and The Dail Men of Erin, Fianna Fail Democrats and Labour too Gombeen men, the Dublin Zoo Loonies, Moonies, Lords and Serfs Poets, Painters, Suffragettes Cowboy Pictures, Travelling Shows Ceoltas Dancing, Frightening Crows
Tyrone, Tyrconnell, Red Hugh and Owen Roe Cromwell, Robert Emmett, Dev and Strongbow Pearse, Kevin Barry, Colm Cille, Maud Gonne St Patrick, St Brigid, Mac Murrough, Wolf Tone
Aonach, Feis, Connemara Irelands Own and Hill of Tara Rock n Roll and fireside stories Sorse Eireann and Mickey Magories The Coleen Bawn, O’Donnell Abu Leprechauns and Faeries too Bloody Sunday, Black and Tans Easter Rising, Bobby Sands Oisin, Cormac, Tigernach Cashel, Cratloe and Armagh The Hills of Tullow, Conor Pass Sarsfields Ride and Dorans Ass The Croppy Boy and Ninety Eight Sassanach and Fenian blade The Clipper Carlton, Dicky Rock St Stephens Green and Glendalough
Kilmainham, Kilmichael, Kilwarden, Kinsale Dungannon, Dunmore, Enistymon, Rathkeale, Fedelm, Eithne, Aofi, Kathleen The Shamrock, the Harp, the Flute and Crubeen
Master McGrath and Brian Boru Famine, Firbolgs, the H Blocks too Ard Ri, Mountjoy, Parnell and Rynanna Step-dancing, Brian Boru, Big Tom and Setanta
Tir Na Nog, the Galway Blazers Bord Na Mona, Macs Smile razors Mummers, Druids, Unionists Catholics, Jews, Adventists Malin Head and Poitin stills Ikes and Mikes, the Book of Kells Shannon, Suir, Boyne and Nore The Gallowglass and Take The Floor
Blackleg, Wrenboy, Blackshirt, Whitethorn Whiteboy, Boycott, Blueshirt, Blackthorn Plantation, Emancipation, Emigration, Liberation O’Connell, O’Brien, O’Hanlon, One Nation Cuchullian, Rebellion, the Taylor and Ansty B Behan, O’Casey, Riverdance and Planxty Sean T, Mick Del, Sean Kelly, Glenroe James Joyce, Christy Ring, Arkle and Mick’O
IRA, BBC UVF, RTE IRA and UCC LDF and IRB ICA and ESB GAA and C of E Saints and sinners C’est la vie Everyone is you and me.