Cathal Goulding of Dublin, lifelong Republican Socialist and former Chief of Staff of the IRA died on Stephen's Day 1998. I wrote they lyriics to this song upon learning of his death. The song is based on an earlier song written by an American about Cathal's friend and comrade Brendan Behan. Cathal was one of the architechts of modern Republican Socialism. A house-painter by trade in his youth, he spent some 16 years in Irish and British prisons for his actions and beliefs. Rest in peace.
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