Dam Across the Lagan

This is a song written for Engineering Paradise the Musical but eventually removed from the script because, being the last song in the play and eurogising as it does the Continuity IRA, it would have left the audience with the wrong message. It was replaced with an acapella version of Leon Rosselson’s beautiful anti-war song History Lesson. I have included […]

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Thank You

A while back I submitted what I said was my favourite of my own short stories, ‘The Summer of Dust’. This is my personal favourite of my own songs.  It’s sung by Joyce, the would-be hippy teenage girlfriend of the male protagonist in ‘Engineering Paradise the Musical’, to thank him for the good times they have had together and reassure […]

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