FranK!!! Thanks for the info on Spancil Hill. Ive sung it for years, then didnt, and then found myself sitting around with some folks from Kerry at a siesuin/gig I do twice a month and for the first time in YEARS! sang it on request, and was reminded that when I was in my twenties, at a wedding, some old boy who was a great story teller, told me he knew the fella who wrote S H. Well, as you now gave us the story, and the fella was not 130 years old, I do believe, I would say he was a fine story teller, though not the best Ive heard, for example, TOmmy Gibbons of Rossmuny Co. Mayo, to whom every old anchor was a viking pick axe, and every cabins foundation was Grace O Mallys castle. (Any one in touch with Tommy, let me know, he must be 130 himself, if he is still sitting in his dirt floor cabin still, and I hope he is... )
Well Go raith maith agut Frank...
Larry