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December 30, 2020
I was 79 on the 28th
December, the Feast of The Holy Innocents, and have just been introduced 
to a new temptress named Alexa.   She’ll play  almost anything,
not with but for me, in an instant.
She apparently doesn’t
know THE BOYS OF KILMICHAEL, but does know KEVIN BARRY as rendered by Paul
Robeson, Lonnie Donegan and Leonard Cohen, but not by Joe Lynch which was the
most popular version on Radio Eireann.  Robeson was taught it by Peadar
O’Donnell in 1949. The singer’s car had a puncture which was being fixed on the
way to a left-wing rally in, i think, New York State, and  the veteran ....

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