Down the Junction – Frank McNally on three very contrasting figures from the same corner of South Tipperary

A soldier’s song (of sixpence) the real man behind the ballad of Patrick Sheehan

Frank McNally: ‘As printed a week later, the song fitted Sheehan with a classic Irish backstory of eviction, parents dying in the workhouse, and a life of deprivation that forced him to enlist, and regret it’