Songs for March 17: Being Irish...
Taste, Eire Apparent, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Thin Lizzy, Horslips, The Undertones, The Boomtown Rats, Radiators in Space, Stiff Little Fingers, My Bloody Valentine, The Fatima Mansions, and Whipping Boy
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” That’s supposedly a quote by William Butler Yeats, though there’s no evidence that he’s the one who said it. Regardless, no Irish philosopher ever let the truth get in the way of a good story, so we’re happy to attribute to him.
It is the feast of St…
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