Brian McKeown

I dare say I’m biased, but I’ll bet there is no country on earth that has better songs than the Irish. There are hundreds of them and every one a gem. They come in all varieties: Songs of the old sod like “Galway Bay” and “Mountains of Mourne,” songs of the ladies like “Molly Malone” and “Black Velvet Band,” humorous ditties like Val Doonican’s “Delany’s Donkey” and “Paddy McGinty’s Goat,” rebel s Read more of this blog post »