Ireland In 50 Albums, No 3: Legend, by Clannad (1984)
Clannad in the early 1980s: Noel Duggan, Ciaran Brennan, Moya Brennan, Padraig Duggan and Paul Brennan. (Picture: H McCarthy/Express/Getty)
The story of how a family from the Donegal Gaeltacht become synonymous with English folk hero Robin Hood starts in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.
It was to Hollywood producer Richard 'Kip' Carpenter had gone seeking investment for his retelling of the story of the brigand-prince of Sherwood Forest. To his shock, the executives had never heard of Robin Hood. So he tried to pitch it to the room on terms they would understand. It might help, he suggested, to think of Robin Hood as “the Dukes of Hazard with bows and arrows’.
