Cross posted;
Luke Kelly (whatever might be your opinion of his singing) was a Dubliner - he was an early member of the Critics Group.
Ewan (or anybody, couldn't have 'taught' him to sing like that in a million years.
I shudder to think what Luke would have sounded like if Ewan (who had one of the worst Irish accents - worsted only by his Liverpoolese) had tried to teach him to sing.
Ewan had two accents - the one he grew up surrounded by as a child, Scots - ish (a sort of mixture of his fathers Lowland Scots and his mother's highland brogue) and his native Salford one which later leveled out to a sort of standard English.
He was first discovered by a BBC director in the 'Hungry Thirties' , street-singing to a cinema queue in Glasgow. his repertoire being a mixture of various Scots ballads and songs in Scots Gaelic - I would love to know what he sounded like, but the BBC man was impressed enough to offer him a job in a political May Day broadcast!!
Jim Carroll