Folkies such as Luke Kelly, Ewan Macoll, A.L.Loyd, Dick Gaughan and others were paid up members of the Communist Party. They wanted to turn Ireland and Great Britain into communist countries. They failed. Thank God! We do not live under a totalitarian nightmare that they invisaged.

However, in these post-socialist days, does anyone still call themselves a socialist, or, indeed, a communist? If so, why? Socialism and communisim are totally discredited - or are they? Maybe you think differently.