Every time they strike up a tune, whether at a wedding, a wake, a pub night or a festival, they are helping Cleveland’s Irish story carry on, one song at a time.
A less mythic and therefore more intimate depiction of how the immediacy of the Conflict forced parents to explain needless violence to their children is offered in Longley’s, “The Ice Cream Man”:
I always associate the word Burren with barren - completely wrong in that there are loads of foliage throughout. But the rocks dominate, in size, appearance ...