Top o'the mornin' to ye lads & lassies. 'Tis St. Patrick's Day.
It would be too easy to find something by, for example, U2, Van Morrison, or The Cranberries. However, we are remembering a fine fellow from Northern Ireland who settled here in the US many years ago after a teaching career in England.
Eamonn McGirr owned an Irish club that bore his name in Loudonville, as memory serves, and hosted a weekly radio show, Proud to be Irish, on one of the local channels, 'til his passing in 2004. He has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for a marathon singing performance for Cerebral Palsy in 1996. With his band, the Go Lucky Four, he had a hit with "Up Went Nelson" in 1966.
Here, he's at another Eamonn's, this one in Massachusetts, with a cover of Phil Coulter's "The Town I Know So Well". Jim Larkin, who shot the video, was a frequent collaborator with McGirr here in the 518.
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