On Raglan Road - By Patrick Kavanagh 

Now under threat from all the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

Worse version has to be Van Morrison.

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You should hear my version, it’s trash

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This is a great beauty story! I'm so grateful for that video. Thank you so much!

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I think it was Elaneor Shanley who dueted with Ronnie.

Thanks for taking the trouble to explain the meaning of those delightful couple of words . From now on they will mean so much more , every time a hear them sung in the future .

Nah....i don't agree that it was suited to him.

Why don't you just google it and play it to yourself

He was the Minister for Miseducation for too long. RIP.

Yes, Donogh O'Malley was the Irish minister of education and probably one of the most intelligent, hard-working and definitely the most consequential person ever to hold that position. When he took up the job, only one third of Irish kids stayed in school beyond the age of 14; but O'Malley introduced free secondary education and school transport for children in rural districts, and thus laid the foundation for the very high standard of education among Irish people, and ultimately the success of the Celtic Tiger. He faced strong resistance to these measures, but with his force of personality and his disgust at poverty from lack of education and opportunity, he was able to push them through. Apart from that he was an accomplished sportsman, winning medals in rugby, swimming and soccer, he was also affable, a famous wit, generous, compassionate and an all-round great personality. In fact, he was practically everything that the bitter, conceited and mean-spirited Kavanagh was not (apart from the fact that both were alcoholics for a time) ; and a lot of what is written here about the relationship between this lady and Kavanagh is rot. The last few verses of this song/poem, if people were to take the trouble to listen to them instead of being seduced by the beautiful old melody, show the kind of character Kavanagh was and, ultimately, the lack of respect he had for this woman, who was for him only an unwilling muse that he needed for his writing. But she was bright enough never to take him seriously as a man.

The ROI's education system is in a right mess these days. @@Bulshie

Don't be a gomie

Why where you there too witness her age.

@@garrettwhite1695 listen to the lyrics. It's quite obvious

GET over your self I taught a Pedo was someone who has sex with an underage child. So where in that poem does Patrick kavanagh say he had a sex with an underage girl so take the cloth out of your ears and you listen.

GET over your self I taught a Pedo was someone who has sex with an underage child. So where in that poem does Patrick kavanagh say he had a sex with an underage girl so take the cloth out of your ears and you listen. You might learn something from that Poem if you read it properly .

@@emmetbannon did it say in the song she was 22?