Dick -
Having no religious axe to grind - left or right footed - as far as I'm concerned the Irish question is one of whether in the 21st century any country has the right to own all or part of another. I seem to remember atrocities took place on all sides and nobody came out of the conflict with clean hands.
I found over the last thirty years that songs and music, whether they come from one side of the divide or the other, act as a unifying rather than a divisive force and my curse on those who would use them otherwise.
As I said, 'Dolly's Brae' or 'O'Hara, Hughes, McCreesh and Sands' - all part of a shared culture and history, and long may that continue to be tha case.
Jim Carroll