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Do not think you could have done better. Just great.

A talent like Luke comes maybe every other generation. Learning of his death was like a punch in the stomach.

Does anyone have the words? I am a grandson of Thomas MacDonagh but fairly deaf.

This has me remembering visiting Glasgow in 1969 and playing bodhran in the Old Scotia Bar and thinking this was a damn good fiddle player I was playing with. Aly Bain.

Funny that this song should be on an album of songs of the Spanish Civil war as it a lot older than that and refers to Britain's various wars with Spain. The reference to the Peelers and fighting the King of Spain should tell you that.

The song is a lot older than the Spanish civil war. The reference to the Peelers and to the King of Spain should tell you that.

Great song from a great album. I keep hoping Topic will release the two Exiles albums as CDs as my copies got lost somewhere along the way.

I am so grateful for this and all the other videos of Luke and the Dubliners. Part of me wants to cry that so many of them are dead but mainly I rejoice that they lived.

It is so s,ad to see Pete not to be able to sing but as the song goes there is a season. Tnak you Pete for all the years

Great performance but Jim needs to get some facts right. Grace died in 1955 (not 1969) and she died alone. She was my grandaunt (my grandfather had been executed the morning before Joe) and I barely got to know her.

I'll never forget getting Dave's first solo album "Rags, Reels and Airs in 1968. I wore it out and had to get another copy. Later that year I was doing a folk programme on Radio Eireann and Hen's March to the Middens was my intro.

How could the Rising have been treasonable when there was no loyalty owed. This was just one battle in an epic 700+ year war. The Normans and the English never held Ireland by anything but force and never commanded or earned the loyalty of the Irish people.

Niall MacDonagh

I loved Tom Paxton from the first time I heard him probably about 62 (OK, I am an old geezer) but I have never been able to fully enjoy him with that danged piano. It really takes away from the performance. I hate it.

What a painful thing to watch. I knew Liam pretty well for most of the 60s and on and off after that and the man was just so full of life. Mind you, there is lots of life in this video even though his body is failing him but still, it pained me. I just wonder how he will be reincarnated.

Shouldn't he be in school?

Dang it, I was looking for an Irish tune by the same name and came across this. Same tune just played a lot faster. I did find a video of the "original" played by Aly McBain. Isn't folk music great.

Personally, I have found that I even have to think about what time a tune is I am in trouble. To master 7/8 time I just put every slip jig I had on record on a tape (yes eons ago) and practiced. Eventually I got it. Lovely drum though.