> Well it wasn't really in folk clubs. it was when i was gigging Irish theme bars and Irish pubs. That particular one was in Nottingham, next to a police station. there were requests for Sean South, but the landlady was having none of it.

In 2022, the University of Limerick, the Traditional Song Forum and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance jointly sponsored a conference at the University. On the day after the formal conference, a few of us who had stayed on were taken to visit a few significant locations in Limerick City, accompanied by relevant songs. One of the locations was a cemetery, and one of the songs sung there was Sean South of Garryowen. Irish rebel songs in general do indeed need to be treated with great circumspection nowadays but, having the song in my head from many years ago, in the special circumstances of remembrance in a graveyard, and learning that South himself had been an unpopular troublemaker in his home city, there was I, a Brit, joining in the song.