What a hybrid.....The harmonies and tunes of the Clancy Brothers, the musical style and arrangement of the Pogues, the Crispness of the Dubliners...Wow well done lads a fully loaded talented machine.❤
The great Mary Wallopers, with a little touch of the Dubliners, The Pogues, the Saw Doctors, Mozart also a very little tiny touch of the good old Wurzels and a whole lot of the Mary Wallopers.
How to be a success - go to the US and play Irish Trad. music! Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem did it. The Pogues did it. Simple formula. Go lads and lass.
So, it's the United States. That bastion of erudition and knowledge of the world. And for an Irish band the director chooses an English song written by an Englishman about an English town. Loves ya Yanks. I bet you also claim to be Irish because you once saw a Kerrygold advert and thought it a classy product.
It's also a song made famous by a great Irish band and an example of brilliant folk music, the like of which The Mary Wallopers play, regardless of origin.