Thanks Bob, that's an excellent, and, I think, a very accurate song!

At the risk of embarrassing Bob, very small risk, the guy is Croc Dundee tough, I must tell Mudcatters this one.

I appealed a while back on Mudcat for some son, or daughter, of Oz to get me a picture of the grave of John Goulding, a transported Fenian in 1867, one of the "Fenians of Cahersiveen". BB drove 100 hundred miles from his home to Gerringong in NSW, took the pic, sent it to me, and it's now in the book! A significant contribution, as it illustrates well just what sacrifices those guys made for their cause in those days. Surely an example of Mudcat at it's very finest. Thanks mate.

Re you're first post Bob, about "balance". I was very happy to learn the other day that "One Green Hill" was the subject of a feature in the "Belfast Telegraph", the biggest circulation newspaper in Northern Ireland, and one of essentially unionist ethos. My book is nationalist in spirit but, respectful of the unionist tradition as equally valid. The "Belfast Telegraph" feature proves that the book will appeal to reasonable people in both rival camps. If there is a message in the book at all, that is it: mutual tolerance and respect.