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As Margaret Thatcher’s funeral cortege wound its way through London on the day of her state funeral, a woman stood holding a home-made placard: “Thank you for my house, Maggie!” Mrs Thatcher’s “Right to Buy Scheme”, allowing council tenants to…

Songs are woven into the fabric of our lives, caught in the corners and crevices of memory from childhood, fixed to key moments, and often embedded in our identity. And in Ireland our store of traditional songs is as wide…