G'day again Jim McLean,

To get way back to your original post

... the Belfast group/family The McPeakes sang the song that almost beacame the standard last song in folk clubs in the 1960s/'70s Will Ye Go Lassie, Go? ... and it is based on a song from Tannahill's Braes of Balquidder

... and the Republican Irish have a deep and religious respect for the song (written for a Dion Boucicault play) Wearing of the Green - tune borrowed from another setting of a Tannahill poem!

What is it about Tannahill that unites us all?

Regards,

Bob Bolton