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Thread #79368   Message #4011726
Posted By: beachcomber
03-Oct-19 - 11:41 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Paddy on the Railway
Subject: RE: Origins: Paddy on the Railway
Sounds like another "piss-take" on the Irish in the UK in the 19th C. Daniel O'Connell, who is mentioned in the lyric, was, of course, an Irish lawyer and MP whose perseverance in Westminster brought about law reform to allow Catholics to practise their religion in Ireland.