B-Side the Leeside: Jimmy Crowley and The Boys of Fair Hill 

Stoker’s Lodge created the classic Cork album featuring tunes such as Salonika and Johnny Jump Up. The tale of how it was made even takes in one of the Guggenheim dynasty

A later version of Stokers Lodge pictured outside the Phoenix, Cork, in the 1970s: Johnny Murphy, Eoin Ó Riabhaigh, Jimmy Crowley, Christy Twomey, Mick Murphy.

The Bothy Band’s Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, a 1970s “folk pop star”, had been flown in by plane from Dublin. He was the producer of what was to become the quintessential Cork album, its title track an unofficial Leeside anthem to rival ‘The Banks’.

Stokers Lodge, on the brink of making it as recording artists, had been booked into a hotel for a week, their songs carefully selected and rehearsed.