happy? - May 6

Subject: happy? - May 6
From: Abby Sale
Date: 06 May 05 - 08:20 AM

May 6, 1882: "The Phoenix Park murders": an assassination in Dublin of the British chief secretary
of Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and his under secretary, T.H. Burke by members of a nationalist
secret society, the Invincibles. "Skin the Goat" Fitzharris was the cabman who drove them to and from the
Park.

          Carey  told on 'Skin the Goat,'
          O'Donnell  put him on the boat
          He wished he'd never been afloat, the dirty skite
          It wasn't very sensible to tell on the Invincibles
          They took aboard the principals, day and night.
  
                  "Take Me Up to Monto," words & music by George Hodnett, 1958
  

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Subject: RE: happy? - May 6
From: GUEST,Allen
Date: 06 May 05 - 03:57 PM

Is Take Me Up to Monto actualy Follow Me Up to Carlow?

Subject: RE: happy? - May 6
From: Abby Sale
Date: 06 May 05 - 05:49 PM

No relation, Allen. Monto concerns events from, say, 1880 to as late as 1920.   Mostly 1882.

There's several discussions in the Forum, primarily: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=36178, a considerable mass on the song and I've organized and summarized it for myself and "Big Tim" of Mudcat if'n your interested.

Subject: RE: happy? - May 6
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 06 May 05 - 06:21 PM

So today we celebrate murder?

Subject: RE: happy? - May 6
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 May 05 - 07:46 PM

No call was made to celebrate (thus the question mark), just remember.

Subject: RE: happy? - May 6
From: GUEST,Allen
Date: 07 May 05 - 11:19 AM

Well, I rather ment is the song derived from Carlow.
But will take a look at the link.