...of the "Us against the British" genre.
This one is a moving take during our days of terror, terrorists and terrorism.
According to Wiki:
The Patriot Game" is an Irish ballad about an incident during the Border Campaign launched by the Irish Republican Army during the 1950s to bring about the reunification of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland. It was written by Dominic Behan, younger brother of playwright Brendan Behan, to the tune of an earlier folksong, "The Merry Month of May". It tells the story of Fergal O'Hanlon, an IRA Volunteer from Ballybay, County Monaghan who was killed at the age of 20 in an attack on Brookeborough Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in County Fermanagh on 1 January 1957. The operation was devised and led by Sean Garland, an IRA man from Dublin. Another volunteer, Seán South from Limerick, was also killed during the raid.I drank one night at a faux-Irish pub in San Diego called "The Patriot Game." The pub had pictures of the men executed after the Easter Uprising of 1916 and had anti-British slogans painted on faux-brick walls. That experience made me realize that the great promise of America is getting away from the ancient debts that history places on us and getting a fresh start, free from ancestral grudges.
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