Jimmy Crowley reveals his favourite Cork folk songs from his repertoire

He may be tiring of the ‘liberal agenda’, but Jimmy Crowley is as passionate as ever about the songs of his native city, writes Colette Sheridan.

Cork balladeer and song collector, Jimmy Crowley, has always been his own man. Dubbed ‘the voice of Cork’, he started collecting Cork folk songs in the late 1960s and early ’70s when it was neither fashionable nor profitable.