Ella, The Pogues used that painting, with members of the band artfully worked into it, on the cover of the album Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. Good album too.

When I was small, my Mum used to recite The Wreck of the Herperus to me, as it was one of the poems she learned by heart when she was young. She also introduced me to The Highwayman and the Yarn of the Nancy Bell around then. I never fully memorized The Wreck of the Hesperus, but I did manage to memorize the whole of The Yarn of the Nancy Bell........Kids are really weird......and its surprising what they can do for fun when they don't have a TV.