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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > No Music Discussion > Explore the Irish Troubles through song: toora-loora and Armalite rifles
 
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El Miguel
Oct 30, 2003

TapTheForwardAssist posted:


With a verse or two of Stephen Behan's chorus:

I'll admit this one stumps me; Stephen Behan (1891–1967) was a Republican writer, but I'm not running across anything about what song's he's famous for. That said, his brother-in-law Peadar Kearney wrote some extremely popular songs including the Irish National Anthem, and the very stirring song Foggy Dew that I'll cover in a later post.


The song was written by Dominic Behan - Stephen's son (and brother of author Brendan Behan). It just fits with the narrative of Dominic's song ("each and every night when my da would come home tight/he'd invite the neighbors outside with this chorus").

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