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’
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