Swarb - more old fanny 😜
I gave you:
1 - The finest song ever written about this (sometimes septic) Isle. Written by the late great Philip Chevron - he of the Radiators from Space and the Pogues.
🎶 There is no pain that can’t be eased by the devil’s holy water and a rosary beads 🎶
I don’t know which is worse, but mine's a pint!
2 - Sean Nos is alive and well in Ireland (and Scotland - the lovely Kathleen MacInnes on backing vocals).
3 - My favourite Clannad song, from the band’s best period [when the lovely Moya had straight hair and curly teeth!]. I’ve seen Pol describe it as a match making song - in a roundabout way it is, but the young lady's match is already made - hence she’s told to be away off home. The narrator does pay her a compliment (perhaps implying more) saying, if she married the piper at the start of the night, he’d still be with her come morning!
4 - The great Dave Allen, echoing the graveyard, in Faithful Departed. I suppose part of the comedian’s art is knowing one’s audience - that gag might not travel well, outside the old sod.