Memories of The Men Who Built Britain

[@joebrennan2955]

Brilliant presentation

[@johnforrestal9975]

Thank you for sharing

[@patriot6251]

As always Ultan brilliantly put across . We spoke some time ago through emails and you gave me good advice about doing my memoirs . thanks Ruane

[@timfoley9842]

Who is reading the poem at 11 mins and what is the name of the verse? I see bits of the spoken intro to Mc Alpine’s Fusileers, but this is a bit different.

[@UltanCowley]

Tim Foley This was, I think, John Moran of Rathmore, on the Cork/Kerry border. He recited from memory and had learned this in England prior to WW11. McA. was originally written by Martin Henry of Rooskey in East Mayo. From a long line of spailpins, he was following an oral tradition, where nomadic labouring men composed verses describing their life & times. There are many such...Dominic Behan sexed it up and copyrighted it. The Dubliners popularised it. Not one listener in a thousand recognises that it is, in essence, a work song...

[@vincenthigginbotham8729]

They were the men

[@vincenthigginbotham8729]

They were men