When I was at Tir Na Nog four years ago, an Irish cop drove me to the train station afterwards. Yesterday, a guy jokingly said after hearing my story, "Did you go with or without handcuffs?" On the first and third Sunday of each month, there's an Irish jam session.
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One of the customers said "put on some music" and the first song was Dominic Behan's "The Patriot Game," which a young lad from Derry sang along to, which struck an emotional chord with me.. that wasn't 'just a song' to him.
Liam Clancy's version..
https://youtu.be/RQBW6UQa8Fc
Dominic was Brendan's little brother.
"Dominic was born into the multi-talented Behan family in Dublin in 1928.
"Like his brothers and father, he worked as a house painter before moving to London where he wrote radio scripts for the BBC as well as writing some of the songs for which he is remembered, including McAlpine’s Fusiliers."
https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/dominic-behan-man-wrote-mcalpines-fusiliers-iconic-emigrant-ballad-adored-irish-121077
that article documents how Dominic bitterly accused Bob Dylan of plagiarism for With God on His Side. The Clancy Brothers was one of the primary influences of Dylan.
other web pages on the song:
http://compvid101.blogspot.com/2009/04/a-bitter-legacy-dominic-behans-patriot.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patriot_Game
https://bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/1430
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