Well I'm sorry if I've said the wrong thing by praising the song itself, it obviously stirs people up since it refers to terrible suffering. I agree we shouldn't be 'backward looking', but many folk songs have their origins in injustice and suffering. You can't censor them all because of that. I'm also very fond of 'O Flower of Scotland', and I suppose that too is contentious. (By the way, my mother was Irish from Cork, and my father Scots from Sutherland so their ancestors' history would reflect the suffering imposed on them at the time, eg potato famine and Highland Clearances. I think these songs are important historically, and shouldn't be forgotten, even though wounds can be healed over time.)