Blues guitarist Dom Martin: ‘There was a lot of judgment about the drink and the drugs, from people who didn’t know my dad’
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The emigrant songs sung by the Irish men who built Britain
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Balladeer was ‘effervescent . . . bubbling over with good humour’
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