healey36 wrote:Crack out the Jameson's tonight and hoist a glass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD2Niae26Ow
“Whiskey in the Jar," written around the time of Cromwell's invasion of Ireland, the blackest episode in Irish history until The Famine, tells the tale of a highway robber betrayed by his lover, Molly, and ending up in a ball and chain in prison.
Historian Alan Lomax says songs of highwaymen attacking the agents of the crown were very popular with Irish and British peasants.
The folk of 17th-century Britain liked and admired their local highwaymen, and in Ireland (or Scotland) where the gentlemen of the roads robbed English landlords, they were regarded as national patriots. Such feelings inspired this rollicking ballad.
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/hist ... hiskey-jar