Changelog

• The book reviews have been taken down, since income from book sellers' associates programmes was derisory.

• At last, I have set up a means of accepting on-line payments. You can now support A History of Ireland in Song.

• I've added links to various on-line booksellers to the book reviews.

• Removed all Amazon links, as the return from the Associates program just isn't worth the bother.

• Added another Pearse text: Ghosts.

• New file: Miriam Daly.

• Obituary for John McGuffin
• Two telling maps:
  • Six-county 1997 Local Election Results
  • Those results in context

• New song: John Mitchel
• New files:
  • Wolfe Tone
  • Let me Carry your Cross for Ireland
  • Thomas Ashe
  • Patrick Pearse...
  • ...and some of his writings:
    • The Rebel
    • The Murder Machine
    • Some Aspects of Irish Literature

• New book review: Ireland — The Propaganda War
• New files:
  • Nixon Murder Gang
  • The Propaganda War (based on the above review)
  • Deaths in the Troubles
  • Stagg and Gaughan
• New songs:
  • Ireland Boys Hurrah
  • John Mitchel
  • Kelly the Boy from Killane
  • O Donnell Abu
  • The Ballad of Pat O'Donnell

• Major revision of the core text. It's now much longer, and quite similar to the draft manuscript of the book, which I completed recently.
• New songs:
  • The Men of the West
  • Pat Reilly
  • As I Roved Out
  • The Galtee Mountain Boy
  • Michael Dwyer

• New, albeit short, book reviews: How the Irish Saved Civilization, Nice People_and Rednecks, The Secret Army, Wherever Green is Worn, The Troubles.

• New song: Kilcash .
• Various small amendments and additions to the text, including a bit more on the Irish musical tradition, and a new section on The Flight of the Earls.

• New file, a short biography of Paddy McGuigan.
• New song: Irish Soldier Laddie .

• Changed the background colour back to plain white — that lurid green was fierce hard on the eyes.
• Many small edits and corrections, and a new file on the Great Famine.

• New book review: The Guineapigs.

• Joined some webrings: see the links page.

• Reorganised and extended links page.

• Added a simple banner, a gif with gold text on a green background.

• order any book via its ISBN using the "Order by ISBN" link on the Amazon page.

• Background colour is now green
• New song: O'Dwyer of the Glen
• Track listing for Irish Songs of Freedom

• Added an alphabetical list of all the songs on this site.

This site officially went "live" today. The fact that this happened on "the twalfth" is coincidence, honest!

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