It's fairly well known that Dominic and Brian nver saw eye to eye. I knew Dominic's half brother Rory Furlong who also thought Brian was 'a bit of a bollox'. The Dubliners, collectively, had a great knowledge of Irish music and they gave Dominic credit for McAlpine's Fusiliers. The sleeve notes for one of their albums, I forget which, say that Dominic based the melody on The Jackets Green which, as we know, was about the Irish hero Sarsfield. Dominic echoes the line 'Till down the glen rode Sarsfield's men' in his song.