One more from the Dubliners. Ronnie Drew and his deep gravelly voice. Unmistakable, nothing like it. This video is a little more recent, after Luke was gone, from a TV performance it looks like. McAlpine's Fusiliers is a great song about Irish immigrant laborers in England during World War 2. If you can make out the words, it's good stuff. (OK, here's a link to the lyrics) Most Irish folk songs, like folk music from anywhere I guess, are based on actual events or people or stories at least. So, you get a piece of the history of a people, told by the people themselves, in music like this. Good stuff from auld Ronnie here now...
"Then, if we cannot as yet think alike in all things, at least we may love alike. Herein we cannot possibly do amiss." John Wesley
"Keep your eyes on the crucifix, for Jesus without the cross
is a man without a mission, and the cross without Jesus
is a burden without a reliever." Fulton J. Sheen
"...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self." Henri Nouwen
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