Phenomenal. Growing up in Dublin in the 80s the Dubliners were overshadowed by rock acts like Lizzy, The Boomtown Rats, and U2. It was only in my twenties that I really got to listen to them - this, for me, is their most profound song (a traditional song, the lyrics written by the Irish writer Brendan Behan). When those voices chime in together it strikes a lonely note in the soul, so appropriate to that desolate spot of Dublin where Mountjoy prison stands.
"And there came a voice out of heaven, calling: Elijah! Elijah" And he answered with a main cry: Abba! Adonai! And they beheld Him even Him, ben Bloom Elijah, amid clouds of angels ascend to the glory of the brightness at an angle of fortyfive degrees over Donohoe's in Little Green Street like a shot off a shovel"
July 9, 2009
Luke Kelly and the Dubliners singing the Auld Triangle in Germany 1976