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Thread #34326   Message #463170
Posted By: Peter K (Fionn)
15-May-01 - 06:51 PM
Thread Name: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
Subject: RE: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
Apologies Dick, I did look once and failed to find that song. Maybe The Old Alarm Clock (lyrics posted farther back up the thread) is in there too, but if so I failed to find it.

Grab, Larry (InOBU) has let you off a bit lightly. You need to remember that the island of Ireland was one country until Westminster and the northern unionists insisted on partitioning it (Collins & co only agreeing the treaty package under threat of immediate war). Ever wondered how they came to draw the line just where they did? If they had run it round the whole of Ulster, or even just run it a few miles south of where it is, there would have been no union majority even in the north. For a more scholarly exposition of the Boundary Commission's work, read Puckoon by Spike Milligan. Rolling off my seat just thinking about it!

So it's a marvellous thing, this democracy - you can use it almost any way you like.