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you must not tamper with arrangements
I sat for a while at the cross at Finnoe
Where young lovers would meet when the flowers were in bloom
Heard the men coming home from the fair at Shinrone
Their hearts in Tipperary wherever they go.
His mother's family hails from north Tipperary, where he's quietly but visibly celebrated in many public places.
Our sound poet-President here said:
The genius of Shane's contribution includes the fact that his songs capture within them, as Shane would put it, the measure of our dreams - of so many worlds, and particularly those of love, of the emigrant experience and of facing the challenges of that experience with authenticity and courage, and of living and seeing the sides of life that so many turn away from.
- https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/20...ent-higgins-leads-tributes-to-shane-macgowan/
He was born on Christmas Day, and today is also the anniversary of Oscar Wilde's death.
RIP
